Hey Does Anyone Have An Idea About What the Latest Version of OS X Is that Will Run Smoothly on an iMac G3 without lag and without working on it for months?
On my RevD I would say that no version of OS X ever ran smooth, mostly due to the fact that it never had video acceleration support in the OS for the old Rage Pro
Tiger is faster than Panther IMO. They’re basically the same OS but Tiger is more refined and runs more software. My tray loader runs Tiger and 9.2.2.Typically I run Tiger in slot loaders & pather in tray loaders & then a separate partition for 9.2.2 in all.
Max ram certainly helps in all.
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Tiger is faster than Panther IMO. They’re basically the same OS but Tiger is more refined and runs more software. My tray loader runs Tiger and 9.2.2.
I have a Beige on Tiger too.
... which is why I dug it upThat thread has a post from me showing that the same kexts will work on the Bondi iMac...
I used xpostfacto on mine, just because I wanted it to install the OS under it’s own power, and I was bored. However you can also stick the drive into another mac, install and put it back. That’s probably faster in most cases. TDM isn’t available on the Bondi obviously due to the lack of FW.Cool, I’ll give it a shot sometime. Truth be told I vastly prefer Tiger for all the reasons you mentioned. Did you use TDM or XPostFacto to get Tiger on a 233/333mhz no FW iMac?
I used xpostfacto on mine, just because I wanted it to install the OS under it’s own power, and I was bored. However you can also stick the drive into another mac, install and put it back. That’s probably faster in most cases. TDM isn’t available on the Bondi obviously due to the lack of FW.
Tray loading iMacs are like lombard powerbooks as far as firmware and hardware goes. They’ll even boot Leopard without issue if a G4 is stuck in it.
Can you not temporarily fake the model identifier in OF to one of a later iMac and fool Tiger's installer that way? No TDM/XPF necessary.Tray loading iMacs are like lombard powerbooks as far as firmware and hardware goes.
Possibly, I’ve never tried. But I don’t see why not.Can you not temporarily fake the model identifier in OF to one of a later iMac and fool Tiger's installer that way? No TDM/XPF necessary.
Definitely can’t hurt. Though if you’ve got at least 128MB in it go for the install and just upgrade the ram when it arrives.Lol derp that’s hilariously stupid of me. Thanks, I’ll give XPostFacto a shot when I get a chance. I think I will max out the ram on my bondi before upgrading to Tiger.