[iBook] OSX or not on clamshell G3 366

[Michael Flournoy]

I have both OS9 and OSX on a 366 clamshell. Whenever I drop back to OS9 
I am amazed at how fast the finder is and then how limiting. Networking 
is so much easier under OSX. Crashes are non-existant. The readability 
is light years better. Web browsers have improved so much in the last 2 
years and the OS9 ones seem stuck in 1998. OSX itself is slower but the 
applications are better.
I have used every version of OSX on this clamshell and the latest is 
the best. Don't bother with 10.0 - pure frustration. 10.2 is the 
minimum for reasonable speed( 10.3 is noticably faster yet ). Max the 
ram.
One other note; when I upgraded to 10.3 my screen went crappy. The 
color profile was all washed out and it would lose any changes on 
reboot. This was fixed with one of the early updates so if it happens 
to you just start loading the updates right away!
In short, yes, upgrade. But. You will be short on disk space, only use 
the later versions, and add as much ram as it will hold.

Mike

On Mar 29, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Germain wrote:

> Hello to the list,
>
> I have a brand new and never installed bought copy of OSX 10.0. Should 
> I
> install OSX on my clamshell graphite G3 366, 192 ram, 6 gigs? It's now
> running on 9.2. Would OSX slow down every process? Is there enough 
> RAM? Is
> it worth installing it anyway? The iBook is mostly used for Word, 
> Explorer,
> Entourage and some light Photoshop use? OSX apps I have are: MS Office 
> and
> FM Pro 6.
>
> Thanks a million times
>
> Germain
>
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