2. Is Quartz Extreme required to run Panther?
3. Would I have to add a second video card to support my second monitor or make other hardware changes?
4. Would printing still work via Gimp-Print?
5. Would my system run much better under Panther? (Is the transition really worth all the trouble?)
I have been holding off doing the upgrade to Panther because of the trouble some users have reported, the lack of clarity about whether it will run on my machine, and the fact that XPFacto is still in the alpha stage. I gave up using Quartz Extreme because it caused my system to be unstable. It would lock up after a few minutes use. Perhaps the firewire PCI card (used for my CD burner) is incompatible. I run 2 VGA monitors, the prime one on a Radeon 7000 PCI Mac Edition card and the other on the 8500's onboard video. I use GimpPrint for driving an Epson SC-800 printer via USB to parallel cable.
System -PM8500 system with XLR8 CarrierZIF, 450MHz-G4, 448 Meg RAM, Quantum 37GB SCSI HD, & OS 10.2.8 via XPostFactO v. 2.2.4, IOGear 2 port USB card, LaCie CD burner via OWC Mercury 400 3 port firewire PCI card
Thanks for your advice,
Doug Throp
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