Thank you Brian. I will probably give it a go, although I won't be doing the clean wipe. Way too much work :) Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "B G" <briang113 at pacbell.net> To: "A place to discuss Apple's iBook computers." <ibook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 4:33 PM Subject: Re: [iBook] 10.4 on iBook 500? > 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