Mac OS X forum: OSX advice, please

The highest OS I would go to with this machine is 10.3.9
With the older G3 processor you would be pushing things to keep up with 10.4 and that is not as things should be.
Every machine has it's limitations and in this case it is the G3 @ 600Mhz.

I should run quite happily with Panther, I have a number of iMacs that are doing just that but on the only one that I experimented with, it choked on Tiger. It did actually run but it was like treacle going uphill on a cold day!

I used the Archive and Install method to move from 10.2 to 10.3 and did not have any trouble whatsoever.

Good luck.

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When you start the install process for Panther,or any other Cat, you will find that the default option for the installation is Archive and Install.
This method takes all your personal data, your user folder, along with any other settings your have changed, network for example, and puts them in a safe place. It then installs a brand new system on to the HD. On completion of the install, it goes off and retrieves your old data and puts it in the correct, user, folder and then puts all the settings back to what you had them at. You end up with two System folders and the one marked "Old", or similar, can be deleted.
It's rather like a Clean Install on OS 9 and below.

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Do you really have a 20mb hard drive or was that mb suposed to be a gb.

Ian