Why bother upgrading them with the risk of system slow-down.. 10.4 is
a dog compared to 10.3.4 (say) in my experience even on pod iMacs
with 768Mb RAM
Unless there is something specific about 10.4.x that you need, why bother?
On Dec 21, 2005, at 6:07 PM, Eric Paulsen wrote:
On Dec 21, 2005, at 6:24 PM, Michael Bray wrote:
Our school district has approximately 225 iMacs of various ages,
colors, tray-type, slot-type, etc, and I'd very much like to
upgrade some of them to Tiger and WM (from OS-9 and MM). All
these systems use network homes.
Would anyone care to comment on the minimum configuration
necessary to make Tiger work reasonably well?
Judging from what I have at home, a Tangerine iMac (400MHz G3,
10-gig drive, 512M RAM and slot DVD reader, running Panther
nicely), I'm inclined to suggest to our higher-ups that all of our
slot-type iMacs are probably okay (if we add RAM), and we should
heave all the tray-types...
I think the biggest thing to determine for yourselves is what are
you going to do with them? If you need student word processing,
adding RAM (512 would work) to the older G3's will give you a great
word processor, spreadsheet, etc. Multi-media it ain't, but every
computer needn't be that equipped. We have some tray-loading G3's
with only 256 MB RAM that I ran Tiger on before repurposing them to
OS 9 for CD games in our early childhood room. It works, but it
isn't a speed demon.
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We even use 300Mhz orange clam shell iBooks with 384 Mbytes of RAM
(admittedly running 10.3.9) for basic functions of Microsoft Office
2004. For younger students they work fine.
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