[iBook] 10.4 on iBook 500?

B G briang113 at pacbell.net
Mon May 16 16:37:13 PDT 2005


I have 640 mb.

BG

On May 16, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Bill Lockhart wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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
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