Would Tiger be available for G3?

Moosa · #1 March 2nd, 2005, 05:13 AM

Of late Mac has nearly stopped making anything for G3 computers. I wonder if Tiger would be available for G3 processors??

**fryke** · #2 March 2nd, 2005, 06:25 AM

Been talked about before. Tiger will be compatible with mainly the same hardware as Panther. You won't get 64bit support, obviously (just like G4 users) and your graphics card probably won't support some of the effects etc. But other than that, Tiger should run with the same or better performance than Panther on supported hardware. If Tiger really comes as a DVD install only, you might run into problems if you only have a CD drive. There are ways around that, though.

azrad · #3 March 7th, 2005, 04:40 AM

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If Tiger really comes as a DVD install only, you might run into problems if you only have a CD drive. There are ways around that, though.

fryke, im more interested in that part actually. back at home, i have G3 366MHz iBook, i would really love to know on how about to install the Tiger OS on my iBook. if possible, you can share with me on that particular topic... =)

**fryke** · #4 March 7th, 2005, 05:50 AM

Well, you can put a DMG of the Tiger installation DVD on a harddrive (internal or external), mount it and install from there while booted into Panther by opening the installer's .mpkg file (you'd find it somewhere on the DVD). While this isn't the "supported" installation type, it usually still works fine for me. I'm not sure ATM whether you can upgrade a Panther system like that or you'd have to install onto a different volume than your startup volume, but there'd be a way around the DVD restriction. (and if you already have an external drive, you could boot from that and install onto the internal one...)

azrad · #5 March 9th, 2005, 12:14 AM

that's great... never thaught of doing in such method... i will try it later when the Tiger is out... kewl...

thanks fryke...

enforce1 · #6 March 9th, 2005, 12:10 PM

Alternately, you could get yourself a nice FW dvd drive, pop it in, and away you go.

**Jason** · #7 March 13th, 2005, 10:18 AM

I'm running Tiger on a G3 right now, although I will say spotlight is rather sluggish. So I don't know how many features will run smoothly for us lowly G3 users.

Krevinek · #8 March 16th, 2005, 07:53 PM

Spotlight is rather sluggish because of the indexing involved... It is actually quite similar to MacOS 9's indexing, so on older machines it tends to suck down quite a few resources, more than it needs to.