[iBook] 10.3.9 or 10.4.11 on 466 MHz iBook?

[Eric Hall]

You can put a 512 meg dimm in it. I put one in my Tangerine:

Hardware Overview:

  Machine Model:    iBook
  CPU Type:    PowerPC 750  (83.0)
  Number Of CPUs:    1
  CPU Speed:    300 MHz
  L2 Cache (per CPU):    512 KB
  Memory:    544 MB
  Bus Speed:    67 MHz
  Boot ROM Version:    3.1.2f4

I'm running 10.3 and it's not what I'd call fast, but it's acceptable for light surfing, email, instant messaging, etc.  You couldn't really expect much more from a Clamshell. I would  think if anything, 10.4 might be actually be a little faster with the maximum memory installed. Free software is much easier to find for 10.4 as well. 

Eric

--- On Fri, 2/13/09, Tom R. no spam <tr5374 at csc.albany.edu> wrote:
From: Tom R. no spam <tr5374 at csc.albany.edu>
Subject: Re: [iBook] 10.3.9 or 10.4.11 on 466 MHz iBook?
To: "A place to discuss Apple's iBook computers." <ibook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 4:52 PM

To an iBook fan, that's an iconic unit, the last, best
clamshell iBook.  (I would be happy to have one, just to
play with it sometimes.)  For speed, it needs maximum RAM,
which is probably the 320MB (64 + 256) you have (though
search for info, it may be that after some firmware upgrade
you could have 64 + 512??).  The harddrive is rather small,
and since the system bus is only 66MHz it's never going to be
very fast.  There used to be plenty of reports of people
happily running 10.3.9 on that kind of iBook, but 10.4 is
probably too much of a strain for it.  You can get a 10.3.9
install down to about 2GB disk space used.

Good luck!

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Josh wrote:
 . . .
> with. I got a 466 SE with 320MB RAM and the standard 10GB HD. It
> currently has  10.4.11 on it, and it seems a bit too sluggish. I don't
> expect a speed demon, but am amazed at how long it takes to open Finder
> windows or how unresponsive it is sometimes. I do have 10.3 install CDs,
> and I'm tempted to downgrade to 10.3.9. What are your thoughts on
this?
> Is there anything in 10.4 that I'd be really missing? Will I gain a
> little speed with 10.3?
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