Confused about OS-X variants

[aaron7]

Ok, I’m very new to the Apple world. I had a G4 ibook a while back but didn’t do anything more than surf the net on it.

I picked up a B&W PowerMac G3 450MHz to tinker with.

I bumped it up to an 80gb 7200rpm hard drive and 1gb RAM. Also put a CDRW/DVD in it though I'm reading I need the decorder daughter board for my Rage 128 to watch DVDs.

I’ve read the newest I can install is 10.4 as 10.5 dropped support for the G3.

I’m looking at them on ebay but see many say ibook only or imac only. I can’t find one that says it’ll work with a PowerMac.

Am I not understanding something here?

[tino]

I would get OS : X 10.2 - Jaguar I think its called, that will work with no issues on the Power Book, Resellers tend to just mention the bigger names rather than the smaller ones. With the Old G3 Powerbook you need XPostFacto to install OS : X 4 or 5.

[aaron7]

I put 10.3 on and updated to 10.3.9. It works OK but if 10.4 is better I'd prefer that.