I upgraded from Jag to Panther on my iBook (366 / 320 / 6) & the difference in performance was quite noticeable. For some reason, Panther seems to run much more efficiently on older machines. I would only recommend it for older machines if you want to run X. The other advice about the additional RAM is important, as it is probably the biggest factor in speed under X.

On Feb 6, 2004, at 6:16 PM, Jim wrote:

Stacy's comments are intriguing. I've not used Panther yet, but the slowdown I experienced on my Pismo going from 9.2.2 to Jaguar was so mindnumbing that I hesitate to upgrade it any further. I used parallel reasoning for my iMac. But if Panther will bring back the speed of 9.2.2 on my Pismo, that would be great! (I will still be considering a Pismo processor upgrade when my AppleCare runs out in a few months.) I am currently using 9.2.2 on my iMac, however. If Panther brings more speed to my iMac... then maybe I don't really need an upgrade there. But I'm guessing the G4 upgrade to the iMac DV you mention, Stacy, would further benefit Panther speed because of alti-vec awareness that must surely be built-in to Panther (or even Jaguar).
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