Upgrade to Tiger if I have Panther requirements?

Alright, thing now is that I realized that I think I may have all the requirements to upgrade to Tiger, when I bought an Apple-supplied card the ATI 128MB PCI graphics card. I have the cd version of Tiger just in case, but by buying this card will it support me now on Tiger? Cause I have enough HD space, more than least amount of RAM (384mb), a G3 350MHz CPU, built-in FireWire, and hopefully the right graphics card: ATI Rage 128mb PCI 16vram video card.

If you look at this graphic, you'll see that the B&W G3 is at the bottom of the list, meaning that its hardware just qualifies it for running Tiger. The B&W G3 that you're considering to purchase is the slowest model made - the 300 MHz. It undoubtedly has the stock Apple/ATI Rage 128 graphics card, which was a decent card back in '99 with 16 MBs of SGRAM. Obviously, it can't compare to newer cards using DDR memory and having more of it. How large is the hard drive on that B&W? If it's the very small 6 GB drive, you'd need to upgrade it to something more reasonable. You'd also need to buy a universal installer/retail version of Tiger, because your iMac's Restore disks won't install properly on a B&W G3. Additionally, you'd need to know if the B&W-300 has a DVD-ROM drive, to install Tiger from the DVD disks that it comes on. Apple-US had a trade-in option for CD media, but the directions on the form indicate that the offer has expired.
When the target computer is the oldest supported device to run a given OS version, you can expect it to be a bit more sluggish than newer models with hardware that's optimized to take advantage of the OS' features. Buying an 8 year-old computer with the idea of installing/running the latest OS on it is probably ill-advised, because of the related expenses of hardware upgrades. I'd recommend a slightly newer used Mac, like an AGP G4 or better. If you already owned this B&W and just wanted to try out Tiger on it (with little expectations as to performance), I'd have a different opinion.

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