Hi all,

Anyone have experiences to share with Panther on G3 800 iBook? I've got
384Mb RAM, but want to know if anyone has installed and noticed anything
major - ie. speed improvements, etc.

I'm aware Panther is meant to be faster, but want to hear real world
experiences....

thanks!
spanky

In article <u8Ztb.13991$aT.5976@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, lalala
<rama1043********.com> wrote:

> Anyone have experiences to share with Panther on G3 800 iBook? I've got
> 384Mb RAM, but want to know if anyone has installed and noticed anything
> major - ie. speed improvements, etc.
>
> I'm aware Panther is meant to be faster, but want to hear real world
> experiences....

It'll will be more responsive. I have no regrets for installing it on
our family's old iMac DV 400MHz. Your 800MHz iBook would be also much
better with it.

In article <u8Ztb.13991$aT.5976@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
"lalala" <rama1043********.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Anyone have experiences to share with Panther on G3 800 iBook? I've got
> 384Mb RAM, but want to know if anyone has installed and noticed anything
> major - ie. speed improvements, etc.
>
> I'm aware Panther is meant to be faster, but want to hear real world
> experiences....
>
I installed it on an iBook-500 w. 384 MB ram... slower CPU than yours,
slower video (with less video RAM) and a slower system bus.

It's a big improvement over Jaguar on the same system... faster boot up,
faster application start times, generally a perkier feel.

Well worthwhile.

Mac journalist Gene Steinberg, of Mac Nightowl, installed Panther on an
older system, benchmarking before and after ... he reports the results
on:

http://www.macnightowl.com/newslette...m#installation

Alan Zisman <alan@nospam.zisman.ca> wrote in message news:<alan-B80381.07095217112003@shawnews>...
> In article <u8Ztb.13991$aT.5976@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
> "lalala" <rama1043********.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Anyone have experiences to share with Panther on G3 800 iBook? I've got
> > 384Mb RAM, but want to know if anyone has installed and noticed anything
> > major - ie. speed improvements, etc.
> >
> > I'm aware Panther is meant to be faster, but want to hear real world
> > experiences....
> >
> I installed it on an iBook-500 w. 384 MB ram... slower CPU than yours,
> slower video (with less video RAM) and a slower system bus.
>
> It's a big improvement over Jaguar on the same system... faster boot up,
> faster application start times, generally a perkier feel.
>
> Well worthwhile.
>
> Mac journalist Gene Steinberg, of Mac Nightowl, installed Panther on an
> older system, benchmarking before and after ... he reports the results
> on:
>
> http://www.macnightowl.com/newslette...m#installation

I have it on a 366 MHz Lime iBook (320 MB RAM). Overall it is a
great improvement. Speed is a bit faster. But the 10.3 things like
Expose and fast user switching are really important in the use of the
machine. In particular with a 800 X 600 screen Expose is extremely
useful when running 10 or 15 apps. After using it for a few weeks I
don't notice the speed change (you get used to it) but the interface
and application changes are what I do notice all the time. Almost all
for the better save I've lost the ability to browse the Window's
network at work.

--jim

In article <5d6ed6b4.0311171015.2031dc78@posting.google.com >,
vze35xda@verizon.net (Jim Schimpf) wrote:

> Almost all
> for the better save I've lost the ability to browse the Window's
> network at work.

Interesting... I found Panther's Windows-networkability much improved.
For example, it instantly located my shared Windows printer, which had
stopped connecting under Jaguar.