very interesting. I too have an iBook 500 and its been lying serving no purpose and I was thinking about installing Tiger. I was wondering though... how much memory does your iBook have? thanks Bill On May 16, 2005, at 4:33 PM, B G wrote: > I am running Tiger on my g3 500 iBook. I see a huge improvement in > system start up about 2/3 faster. > > All the apps are running fine. It is very snappy. the core OS is a > huge improvement. I was afraid the OS would be too much for the > older architecture but so far no issues. > > I did however wipe the hard drive and then re-import all info from > an external backup after installing Tiger > > I wanted to make sure that I was getting a clean disk to run on. > Mostly because my 10 gig drive is about 80% full. > > Good luck. > > Brian > On May 15, 2005, at 6:15 AM, Tom Legare wrote: > > > > > >> Has anyone tried 10.4 on an iBook 500 yet? If so, do you see any >> performance improvement, or does the new system slow it down? >> >> Tom >> >> _______________________________________________ >> iBook mailing list >> iBook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook >> >> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random >> stuff: >> http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > iBook mailing list > iBook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >