No, I haven't. I'll look into it, though, and consider the possibilities before I go back to Panther. Dan On Monday, September 3, 2007, at 12:37 AM, Techpriest wrote: > Have you "tuned" OSX 4 to run better on the G3s? I found turning off > many of the bells and whistles helped. > > Here is a good article with some tips to get all versions of OSX to > run better on slower machines. > > http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020221092653868 > > On Sep 2, 2007, at 9:48 PM, Daniel Tellier wrote: >> >> I also have two G3 iBooks, a 700 Mhz, with an 80Gb HD, and an 800 >> Mhz, with a 30 Gb HD, both with 640Mb RAM. I upgraded the 700Mhz to >> OSX 10.4 Tiger and its performance slowed considerably. If I >> remember correctly, Tiger is a significantly larger system than >> Jaguar or Panther and seems to slow the older, slower systems down. >> (More memory might alleviate this problem, but that is not an option >> with these iBooks - they are both maxed on RAM). I'm planning to >> move it back to Panther because of this. That is, of course, unless >> some to the guys with more experience than me tell me I'm wrong and >> what I did to slow down my iBook besides upgrading to Tiger. > > > > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 >