On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 06:45 AM, Charles Martin wrote:
Actually no -- I have it running on an iMac G3/700 (512MB RAM but no Quartz Extreme) and it's blazingly fast. I cannot even imagine it on a dual G5.
Interesting. I must try it on my G3 B&W. It's got a Radeon 7000 PCI in :D.
The reason I said that is some people I know ran it on G3/600 and G3/700 iBooks and found it was very slow in some parts and fast in others.
<stops to collect drool>
Put it just over there next to the 100 buckets I had to collect after the Expo in Paris :D
That said, there *is* a new caveat to Panther -- Apple says it won't run on machines that don't have BUILT-IN usb ports (it doesn't actually have to do with the USB ports, it's to do with the ROM -- the lack of built-in USB is just a handy guide to eliminate those machines that don't have the right ROM).
Now, this is just what the WWDC preview had for restrictions, so please don't stone me if the final retail product doesn't have the same caveat, but I thought as we're discussing unsupported machines and OS X, this was worth mentioning.
Steve Jobs confirmed at WWDC that Panther would not support 'Old World' (the ones without built-in USB) machines. I think it's a good move as they are very much the odd-one-out in the G3/4/5 chain. There is a lot of legacy driver code and cr*p that they need in 10.2 and earlier that slows parts of the loading process down. Bye-bye G3 Beige/Powerbook G3.... If anyone wants one of these for a 'hack' project they are about to get VERY cheap.
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