What is the BEST thing to do with my PowerBook? Any Help?

Hi there,
I have a Powerbook G3/400 - the older one with the bronze keyboard - that has OS 10.1.5. I was told by someone previously that I had what is called a "Pismo" system, which is apparently good. It is a great computer - I have had no problems.
Here is my quandry, however. I got an iPod for Christmas and want to use it. The iPod requires a minimum of 10.2.8. I am aware that with the "Pismo" system and the amount of memory I have, I can upgrade all the way to the Tiger OS. My question is, do I WANT to do this?
I was also told that with my older system, Tiger would take up a lot of memory and it would probably be best to completely wipe out my Hard Drive and put Tiger on after that. Fine - sounds like that could be done.
Question is this: Is it wiser to go ahead and go with Tiger, being that it is very stable and the best of the OS X's so far? Does anyone know FOR SURE if my system will support it? Will it make me run slow because it takes up so much memory? Or, do I find a copy of OS 10.2 or 10.3 on eBay, for example, and go with those to possibly save me some memory and speed issues? Will I see problems with 10.2 or 10.3 being unstable and finicky?
Any help that someone has would be greatly appreciated.
Suzanne

Suzanne,
Despit Tom's protestations there's no reason Tiger should not run well on your Pismo. If you don't have an external Firewire drive, then I suggest you get one and use it to make a bootable backup of your current system. You can do that using Carbon Copy Cloner (www.versiontracker.com.) Just take some basic precautions. Before making the bootable backup boot from your 10.1 Installer CD. As soon as the installer finishes loading select Disk Utility from the Installer menu. After DU loads select your OS X startup volume from the list on the left, then click on the First Aid tab in the DU main window, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors it has fixed then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. Quit DU, then quit the installer. If you have 10.1.5 installed then open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder on your hard drive. Select your startup volume from the list on the left, then click on the First Aid tab in the DU main window, then click on the Repair Permissions button.
Now make your bootable backup to the Firewire drive.
When you get the Tiger DVD I recommend that you completely reformat your hard drive before installing Tiger using the following procedure:
1. Boot from the Tiger DVD. After the installer loads select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the number of partitions from the dropdown menu (use 1 partition unless you wish to make more.) Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled, if supported.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the volume(s) mount on the Desktop.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled, if supported.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process will take 30 minutes to an hour or more depending upon the drive size.
Once the formatting is completed quit DU and return to the Installer. Now proceed doing a clean install of Tiger to your main hard drive. If all goes well you can restore you personal files from your backup. You will have to replace any third-party software with updated versions that are Tiger compatible.
If software compatibility is a major concern then before updating to Tiger (or Panther) check with all your software developers to be sure there are compatible upgrades available. The following will also be helpful in this regard:
http://www.macintouch.com/tigercompat.html
http://www.macintouch.com/tigerreview/incompatibility.html
Also read: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607363&#607363
If you have problems, are not happy with Tiger, can't find compatible software, have third-party hardware support problems, etc. you can always boot from your Firewire backup, erase the hard drive and restore your backup using Carbon Copy Cloner.

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