Tiger on my G3?

[chcarnage]

A friend recently gave me some spare SDRAM for my "backup Mac", a 450 Mhz Blue & White aka Yosemite. A pity the board can only address 1 GB of the 1.75 gigs that are now in it.

It is currently running 10.2 and I wonder if I should update to 10.4. I still have a family license lying around. I don't really expect a performance improvement, but it would of course improve the Mac's software compatibility.

The Mac has a 60 GB HDD and was upgraded with ATI's very first Radeon for Mac (32 MB VRAM) and I use a humble 1024*768 monitor with it. Has anybody experiences with 10.4 on similarly specced machines?

 

[Tegeril]

You should definitely at least go to 10.3. That OS upgrade added some significant memory use improvements to the OS that at the time increased performance. Tiger, of course, has that but also adds Spotlight, which at this point on a Mac is impossible not to have imo. So yes, it should be able to handle Tiger and you should do the upgrade.

 

[ShawnD1]

According to Apple, it should work.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1514

* A PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
* Built-in FireWire
* At least 256 MB of RAM
* DVD drive (DVD-ROM), Combo (CD-RW/DVD-ROM) or SuperDrive (DVD-R) for installation
* At least 3 GB of free disk space; 4 GB if you install the XCode 2 Developer Tools

Why does it need FireWire to run an operating system?


Never done this with OSX before, but I assume it would be about the same as when I put Windows Vista on a Pentium 2. Newer operating systems aren't exactly "slower" than old ones, but they use more memory and hard drive space. Since your computer has 4x the minimum memory requirement, it should work.

 

[CrackRabbit]

I ran Tiger on a G3 Powerbook for a while. It should be ok, the OS should be fairly snappy just expect long loading times when starting programs.
Panther has very limited support for newer program (as most make use of the libraries that began to be supplied in Tiger) and I would advise against putting it on.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: ShawnD1
According to Apple, it should work.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1514

* A PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
* Built-in FireWire
* At least 256 MB of RAM
* DVD drive (DVD-ROM), Combo (CD-RW/DVD-ROM) or SuperDrive (DVD-R) for installation
* At least 3 GB of free disk space; 4 GB if you install the XCode 2 Developer Tools

Why does it need FireWire to run an operating system?


Never done this with OSX before, but I assume it would be about the same as when I put Windows Vista on a Pentium 2. Newer operating systems aren't exactly "slower" than old ones, but they use more memory and hard drive space. Since your computer has 4x the minimum memory requirement, it should work.

It doesn't need Firewire, that's only to differentiate it from the first-gen G3 computers, which were basically just G3 CPUs mounted on previous-generation PPC chassis.

 

[sjwaste]

Originally posted by: ShawnD1
According to Apple, it should work.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1514

* A PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
* Built-in FireWire
* At least 256 MB of RAM
* DVD drive (DVD-ROM), Combo (CD-RW/DVD-ROM) or SuperDrive (DVD-R) for installation
* At least 3 GB of free disk space; 4 GB if you install the XCode 2 Developer Tools

Why does it need FireWire to run an operating system?


Never done this with OSX before, but I assume it would be about the same as I put Windows Vista on a Pentium 2. Newer operating systems aren't exactly "slower" than old ones, but they use more memory and hard drive space. Since your computer has 4x the minimum memory requirement, it should work.

Wait... what?

 

[doanster]

Originally posted by: sjwaste

Originally posted by: ShawnD1
According to Apple, it should work.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1514

* A PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
* Built-in FireWire
* At least 256 MB of RAM
* DVD drive (DVD-ROM), Combo (CD-RW/DVD-ROM) or SuperDrive (DVD-R) for installation
* At least 3 GB of free disk space; 4 GB if you install the XCode 2 Developer Tools

Why does it need FireWire to run an operating system?


Never done this with OSX before, but I assume it would be about the same as I put Windows Vista on a Pentium 2. Newer operating systems aren't exactly "slower" than old ones, but they use more memory and hard drive space. Since your computer has 4x the minimum memory requirement, it should work.

Wait... what?

Dang, you beat me to this question!

 

[QueBert]

lol I don't see a Pentium 2 + Vista giving anyone the "Vista Experience" I guess technically there's no reason it technically couldn't run Vista. But why anyone would do it is beyond me. I wouldn't think Vista would have drivers for systems that old. And I don't see Asus making a TX chipset driver for Vista lol.

what's your Vista rating on that system? Gotta be the lowest ever.