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Upgrade to Tiger 10.4.3 or Panther 10.3.9 on my iBook G3/600Mhz ?

I have a iBook G3 600Mhz 640Mb Ram 20Gb hard disk (13Gb free) running OS X 10.2.8. I'd like to upgrade to a more recent version. Could I go to Tiger 10.4.3 or should I stick with Panther 10.3.9 ? I'm worried about performance if I go to Tiger - would it be too heavy on a G3 ???

If you suggest going to Panther, where can I purchase/find the upgrade on CD's or in a download. I just can't find the 10.3 upgrade anywhere on the Apple web site. (p.s. My iBook does not have a DVD drive).

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For your reading http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/2

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Thanks all for your input. I split the points because after much reading, discussions vary widely as to whether it is better or not to upgrade to Tiger. We upgraded the RAM to 640Mb and finally decided to upgrade to Panther. The Install and Archive method did not succeed. So instead of formatting everything and installing Panther from scratch and then having to reinstall all the apps, printers, restore data, emails, etc, we decided that we would do all this work, but on a new machine. We preferred to spend the installation time money on a faster machine which would come with Tiger.

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