It should work fine on your computer. The only thing that will not work for you is Quartz Extreme. So graphics performance may not be excellent and features in os X.3 that need Q. Extreme will not work(EX. The visual cube effect that happens when quick switching users will not happen). The os itself was never unstable just certain issues with external firewire drives and some security issues. "All" of the problems are fixed to my understanding with the latest 10.3.2 update.... ::: useful links ::: Mac os X.3 System Requirements http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/requirements.html Apple - Mac OS X - Features - Quartz Extreme http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/quartzextreme/ Apple - Mac OS X Update 10.3.2 http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/ macosxupdate_10_3_2.html Dan Brieck Jr. On Dec 29, 2003, at 12:43 PM, lavode at comcast.net wrote: > Hi all, > > I received Panther for Christmas, and am wondering if it is stable > yet. I have: > > Yikes!/400 > 304mb RAM > 16mb ATI Video > > TIA, > -Lavode