>I just installed Tiger on my father's 333, but I upgraded the drive >at the same time and installed Tiger before putting the new drive >into the iMac - I put it in a firewire case and installed from >another machine with a DVD drive so I didn't have to hassle with the >CD exchange. > >Tray-loaders only need XPostFacto to get around Apple's limit on the >installer; they don't need it to run Tiger (I've read somewhere & now >confirmed).
That's good to know. I'll just pop the hard drive into my firewire case and do the install from my iMac DV that officially supports Tiger. That will make life easier :-) >Since the drive is larger & faster, I can't directly compare 10.4 to >10.3. But I've heard from others that Tiger seems just as fast as >Panther, or a bit faster, when installed even on machines that don't >officially support it. I can say that 10.2 seems to drag on it, but I did notice my iMac DV felt much snappier when I went from 10.2 to 10.3, so assuming you are right, 10.4 hopefully will give me the same difference to the "feel" on the 333 tray loader when going from 10.2. >I can say it was running just fine with 384MB of RAM. I'm lucky, and >it happily upgraded to 512 last week when I put in the 256MB chip >from my just-abandoned Wallstreet. I have some other 256 MB chips to try out, I may have just had bad luck with the ones I've tested so far. I have two 233 iMacs running with 512 MB, so I'm pretty confident I can get the 333 to do it too... I just need to spend a little more time fighting it. Thanks for the info, it has given me enough of a push to be willing to give it a try going all the way to Tiger. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
