Tiger will run great. But leopard will run like crap. I used the "leopard assist" thing on my digital audio 533MHZ. Once I started doing more than one thing it got ssssllllooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. Don't run leopard!!!! -Jonas
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:41 PM, joe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > slowly, but people have done it. Simpler to spend a few bux and get a > > 1 or 1.2 Ghz upgrade for it; leopard runs quite happily on that (a > > gigE with a 1G upgrade is my home desktop) Get more memory too. a full > > gig will be useful for a developers box. > Unfortunately, I'm not going to be buying a new cpu for it any time > soon, and no more RAM at the moment. I've got Leopard because I > never put it on my machine (AGP G4 with a 1.2ghz upgrade). I'm still > running Tiger. > > > > > >> Elsewise, would it be a big handicap for him to use an older version > >> of Xcode and Panther? > > > > > > MASSIVE handicap. Go for 10.4 at the very least. > > > > It does depend on what kind of programming he intends to do. > D'oh--I meant Tiger. > > Thanks, > > Joe > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
