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Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / July 2007ANY ISSUES?? -> I'm About to Upgrade from Panther to Tiger!
ANY ISSUES?? -> I'm About to Upgrade from Panther to Tiger! I have a Powerbook Ti 1Ghz, 1GB RAM. I'm upgrading from OS X.3 to TIGER OS X.4 with all the updates. Are there any issues I need to worry about before I do it? I hear some people have problems... but I never hear anything specific. Need to know to avoid any TIGER UPGRADE issues! TIA!!!! > ANY ISSUES?? -> I'm About to Upgrade from Panther to Tiger! Google is your friend, too. I didn't have _any_ issues, so you may as well google as I. ;-) > I have a Powerbook Ti 1Ghz, 1GB RAM. I'm upgrading from OS X.3 to TIGER > OS X.4 with all the updates. Like we all did. Good. > Are there any issues I need to worry about before I do it? I hear some > people have problems... but I never hear anything specific. Because the issues I have seen tend to be few and focussed around specific hw/sw issues that are germane only to small numbers of users and differ with their setups. AFAIR, some may be app-spscific - like having to upgrade third-party apps. If you are current on those, you should have very little trouble, and most that run on 10.3.9 will also run on 10.4.x. > Need to know to avoid any TIGER UPGRADE issues! Make sure you have a complete, bootable backup and enough RAM (512MB+++). Then go for it. > TIA!!!! You're welcome.  Signature/Jon For contact info, run the following in Terminal: echo 36199371860304980107073482417748002696458P|dc > ANY ISSUES?? -> I'm About to Upgrade from Panther to Tiger! Leopard will be released soon, so at this stage you might as well skip Tiger if it is not free or almost free. > > ANY ISSUES?? -> I'm About to Upgrade from Panther to Tiger! > > Leopard will be released soon, so at this stage you might as well skip > Tiger if it is not free or almost free. Leopard is not out until October I heard that is like 3 months away. > Leopard is not out until October I heard that is like 3 months away. The point was that it is too late in Tiger's life to pay close to full rice for it. If you can get it free or almost free, by all means. Otherwise, waiting for Leopard makes more sense. I agree with that. Obviously, your money so do what you wish. :) > > Leopard is not out until October I heard that is like 3 months away. > > The point was that it is too late in Tiger's life to pay close to full > rice for it. If you can get it free or almost free, by all means. > Otherwise, waiting for Leopard makes more sense. I agree with that. > Obviously, your money so do what you wish. :) Now you tell me. I thought I needed to pay for Tiger with Uncle Ben's since that is full rice since it has the hulls. Instead, I could have gotten away with paying for it with Minute Rice. Remove blown from email address to reply. > ANY ISSUES?? -> I'm About to Upgrade from Panther to Tiger! My answer to you is in comp.sys.mac.apps. PLEASE learn to properly cross post. Next time you want to cross post to multiple groups, please include ALL groups in the To header of the initial message. SignatureJR > ANY ISSUES?? -> I'm About to Upgrade from Panther to Tiger! > > I have a Powerbook Ti 1Ghz, 1GB RAM. I'm upgrading from OS X.3 to TIGER > OS X.4 with all the updates. Just for anyone else contemplating this upgrade, I have a G3 iMac at work with 512 Mb RAM. It worked beautifully on Panther. I upgraded it to Tiger as I did with all my other machines with higher RAM and speed, but I discovered that Tiger ran much slower on the G3 iMac than Panther with just 512 mb RAM. Much more swapping. My advice to anyone on a system like that is to think carefully about whether or not you want to go to the expense of upgrading the RAM on an older machine, or stick with Panther, which is a much smaller operating system than Tiger. Sounds like you are going to be fine with your upgrade on your system. Who knows exactly when Leopard will be out? Rifty Signatureriftynet - put a dot after rifty > Just for anyone else contemplating this upgrade, I have a G3 iMac at > work with 512 Mb RAM. Actually, that's wrong. It's a G4 iMac, not a G3 - but it still runs slow without enough RAM. By contrast, the G3 iMac my stepson has, with 768 megs of RAM, doesn't seem to have as much problem. The moral seems to be even a little more RAM can make a big difference. I know my MacMini with 2 gigs of RAM goes *very* well. Rifty Signatureriftynet - put a dot after rifty > I discovered that Tiger ran much slower on the G3 iMac than Panther with > just 512 mb RAM. Much more swapping. My advice to anyone on a system > like that is to think carefully about whether or not you want to go to > the expense of upgrading the RAM on an older machine, or stick with > Panther, which is a much smaller operating system than Tiger. That's good to know. Thanks for passing that along! SignatureJR |
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