i was very happy with tiger on my ibook with the same specs the machine was fast responsive and performed wel tiger just ate up one fourth of my hd i had no real problems with the machine running tiger for what your going to use the ibook with tiger wil perform just fine On 5/30/06, Steve R <mailing.lists.2005 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Dual USB G3 iBook 500mHz/640MB RAM/10GB HD -- Tiger or Panther? > > The 512MB RAM chip arrived and was installed without a hitch. (Losing > those tiny tiny screws in plush carpeting doesn't count.) Sleepless > night so I erased the installed 10.0.2, and installed Panther because > I'm wanting to check some weirdness I'm seeing on my Tiger computers > to see if the problem exists with Panther. Once I've checked that > out, I'll be in a position to actually start using the iBook. So my > question for those of you who have the Dual USB 500mHz iBook with > 640MB RAM and a 10GB drive... are you happy with the performance of > Tiger on the machine or were you happier with Panther? > > Ideally I'd prefer to have all my computers running the same OS but I > could live with Panther on the iBook if need be. I won't be using any > processor intense applications -- mostly keeping and updating > databases, perhaps doing some email, definitely some web browsing, > and lots of word processing. > > And I may, very rarely, be using VLC to watch small video clips. > > Thanks > Steve R > > -- > Get the Canadian troops out of Afghanistan now. > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/ibook/attachments/20060530/20f9dc14/attachment-0001.html