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nickyandthefuture:
I installed 10.3.9 on my PB G4 yesterday and I haven't found any problems yet...  It doesn't seem very different at all, really.  Safari got better, though.
Did you try doing the normal fix-weird-OS-X-problems stuff like repairing permissions?

I'm pretty excited about Spotlight.  If it works like they say it does, it could be pretty useful, since I have a lot of text documents and no organizational skills.  I'm nonplussed about the whole widgets thing, though.  Konfabulator has been out for a long time and I never bother to try it.  Updated Mail will be nice, though.

Hoborg:
I've heard a lot of reports of people having problems with java after installing 10.3.9. Maybe try reinstalling java at the sun website? Also, if you have any plugins for safari like Acidsearch, those could be a problem, try removing those.

I'm not that excited about tiger.. they stole Konfabulator and made the search better, which I have never used anyway. Does it do anything else special? I won't get it until the apps I run require it.

johnnylaw:
I installed 10.3.9 about an hour ago on my G4 Powerbook - I ran all of my favorite apps and haven't noticed a problem yet.

If you're running into issues - or worried about tanking your Mac with 10.3.9 - take a look here: http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050415162734383
My coworker with a finicky TiBook reported it worked well for him.

Matteh99:

--- Quote ---Seriously, I try to run IRC + Firefox + Bittorrent + iTunes and my computer just cries. You can actually count the fucking cycles.
--- End quote ---


Check the number of page in / page outs in the activity monitor.  It is in the utilitys folder.  If you have a ton of them you need ram.  I got a 1.6 ghz imac and it was a dog on 256 megs of ram when I tried to run a few programs at once.  I added a gig of ram (probably over kill 512 probably would have done it) and now it never slows.

I haven't had any trouble with 10.3.9.  I suppose it would be smart to wait and see what other issues other people have before installing any updates.

Tiger does seem to have a bunch of cool things I don't know if I would spend 140 bucks for it but since I work at an apple reseller I get a NFR copy :-P.  Yes I am an annoying apple computer sales man who tries to sell you more ram and a printer..

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MilkmanDan:
No. My 512MB of RAM is not the problem. The problem is that my computer has a 450MHz G4 processor.
There are other problems as well, but that's the main one.

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