On Feb 1, 2004, at 08:17 pm, Andrew, a Mac Freak wrote:
My dad has a G3 300MHz B/W that has 10.2.8 installed. He wants to upgrade to 10.3 with my iBook G4 install disks. Can he expect a speed increase, or will Panther operate slower? I thought, from experience with old versions of Mac OS, that the newer the system (generally) the slower computer seems to operate. But with Mac OSX is this different?
I run 10.3.2 on a G3/400 with a Radeon in and find it a very useful machine. Without the Radeon's Quartz Extreme capabilities it's slightly sluggish graphically but sharp CPU-wise.
I've also just managed to get 10.3.2 running on my 9600/G3 with the Rage128 GL out of my G3/400 and it seems OK upto 1024x768. Higher resolutions tend to lead to Quartz window drags and effects slowing down to frame rates where they look slightly choppy.
As a work machine it should be ok for web, e-mail and light office work but not Office X or anything by Adobe. Dreamweaver MX 2004 is borderline on my G3/400 but I tolerate it because my iMacs screen is too small for web layout.
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