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ANOTHER UPDATE: Tiger on my G4?
« on: September 08, 2006, 10:41:12 PM »
Last night at our user group meeting, we were supposed to see a preview of Leopard, but the presenter was sick - so we had Q&A instead. Other than the lady who always asks about every feature "Will it work with gmail?", and they all say, "What's gmail?" - it was interesting.  rolleyes.gif

The most interesting part was the widget stuff. Bunches of local widgets that are pretty cool and I was intrigued enough to search out Tiger. Best I found was $89 at OWC.

I'm pretty sure I can run tiger on my *mac*:

PowerPC G4
933 MHz
2MB L3 cache

1.5 GB SDRAM

TONS of space on my 2 hds.


Before I blow $89, I'm would like confirmation that I *can* run it without being bogged down, and does anyone know of a better price?

Thanks!
kimmer
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« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2006, 12:06:49 AM »
I have been running tiger on my 933 since the git go.  It runs just fine. smile.gif
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« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2006, 12:26:17 AM »
Absolutely. Runs nicely on our 933, and it also runs very well on my old Sawtooth (400Mhz, upgraded with Sonnet 1GHz processor) that my sister now owns. Go for it! biggrin.gif
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« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2006, 02:25:34 AM »
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« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2006, 08:21:39 AM »
I'm running TIger just fine on two G4/AGP/400MHz; it runs a lot better with all the non-English language stuff stripped out!
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« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2006, 12:46:16 PM »
krissel, thanks bunches for the links.

gnung, Sneakers does that -- I leave everything in OSX - I'm paranoid. wink.gif

Thanks for the encouragment, everyone!

Now to convince Sneakers I should blow the money. LOL!
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« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2006, 01:59:31 PM »
My old 350 megahertz G3 blue-and-white that I handed down four years ago is happily (if slowishly) running Tiger, but it's faster than when it ran Panther. I'm about to get the machine back — with three times as much RAM and a new drive!
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« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2006, 04:12:27 PM »
Should run fine, but you really don't need all the unused languages nor the printer drivers for the 478 printers you don't own.

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« Reply #8 on: September 09, 2006, 06:59:37 PM »
D73, you will love the RAM and the new drive!

LOL @ ABD. The Prince and the Pebble -- the Oregon Coast version of the Princess and the Pea. LOL!

If I had dumped all the printer drivers, then I'd have been in a fix when we changed printers. wink.gif  Paranoia rules.  rofl.gif
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« Reply #9 on: September 09, 2006, 11:50:07 PM »
I'm still running Jaguar on the old B&W G3; it works about twice as fast with an internal SCSI drive instead of running the OS off the IDE.  I think that the IDE on those old guys is running at 2/3 of the speed on the G4's and the drives were generally 5400rpm instead of 7200rpm!
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« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2006, 07:48:23 PM »
QUOTE
I'm pretty sure I can run tiger on my *mac*:

PowerPC G4
933 MHz
2MB L3 cache

1.5 GB SDRAM

TONS of space on my 2 hds.


i have tiger running on a 350mhz iMac G3 (not supported but it works!)
and on my 500mhz iBook G3

yea no sweat it'll work fine
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« Reply #11 on: September 15, 2006, 01:33:59 PM »
QUOTE(krissel @ Sep 9 2006, 12:25 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Full install

http://applerescue.com/page1/page1.html?gc...CFQQ3Hgod-zj-8Q

Ordered. Waiting its arrival.

Figured for a few bucks more I'd have the full install and not have to install jag/panther/tiger and all their updates. wink.gif
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« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2006, 11:04:08 PM »
B&W G3 with a G4 550 MHz processor.  It is now running at 600 MHz and Tiger fine.  Family actually loves it!

A video card may help some as well.  Not sure what shipped with your G4, but, installing a Radeon 7000 in the B&W helped.

Plus, I have a MDD with a single processor 1.25 GHz G4 and a Gigabit Ethernet G4 with a PowerLogix dual processor 1.2 GHz processor upgrade, both running Tiger absolutely!  There's a Radeon 9000 that came with my MDD that I installed in the Gigabit and a Radeon 9600 Pro was installed in the MDD.
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« Reply #13 on: September 16, 2006, 09:38:02 AM »
You all have answered my questions that I was about to ask.
My older G4 Tower should run Tiger just fine.  Its got 9.2.2. now

Do you have to install Panther first?  Or can I just use the Tiger disk that came with my iMac G5 refurb(Panther was on it when I got it, they included Tiger disk free).

Remind me how to get rid of all the unused language and printer driver stuff?

Thank you,
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« Reply #14 on: September 16, 2006, 10:26:25 AM »
"The Tiger Disk from your iMac G5 will not work on that unit. Apple conscripts the installers to look for specific Machine cues if it is the Media included with a Machine."

This is what a friend just emailed to me about installing Tiger on my old G4 tower.
I am not sure what he means?
I thought if you all have Tiger on your older machines, that I would be able to install it also from the Tiger disk?
Thanks again,  I am a bit confused with what he said.
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