[X4U] Tiger on older Mac?

[Jim Freeman]

I thought everyone new what a "dual usb ibook" was. 500 mhz. firewire 
certainly. it was the first iBook to come out *after* the clamshell. I 
don't remember how much ram, but probably 512.

Jim

On 28-Apr-05, at 10:19 PM, Kunga wrote:

> Is that a clamshell? What speed processor? It must have a FireWire 
> port you know. I would recommend the RAM be maxed out. although Apple 
> says 256 minimum, I think 512 would be inadequate. 768 or a gig would 
> be my suggestion.
>
> In any event it has got to be faster than any previous version. I wish 
> you good luck and hope your wife is pleasantly surprised. If her iBook 
> is too slow without enough RAM or not enough free hard drive space, I 
> suggest selling it and buying a new iBook.
>
> k
>
> On Apr 28, 2005, at 4:09 PM, Jim Freeman wrote:
>
>> I'm anxiously waiting for my copy of Tiger to arrive, hopefully 
>> tomorrow, and I will certainly install it on my PBG4 1.33mhz. But 
>> what about my wife's dual USB iBook? I just read Walt Mossberg's 
>> review, where he advises against installing it on older Macs until an 
>> update comes along, because things like Mail are slow. My wife's 
>> iBook is already intolerably slow. I don't want to install Tiger 
>> unless it's an improvement. If I install it and she starts having 
>> trouble, I'm going to hear about it.
>>
>> Jim