I run panther on a similar set up, but 256 Mb RAM. For most things, I find it to work quite well. One thing I did was go completely OSX. I didn't load 'classic' and I got rid of all the OS9 apps, etc, before installing. I found this gave me enough disk space for most things, but I do have an external for my photos and for back up. The internal drive is quite small (3Gb I think). -Bob -- ------------------------------------------- Verizon Technology Organization bob.virzi at verizon.com 781.466.2881