To my left is an Indigo iMac/500 (March 2002) with 1G of RAM, as my principal machine for work and play. It runs 10.4.11 in sprightly fashion for all things but one: either preparing to print (real) large documents to an hp 930C, or 'printing' the same docs as .pdf, from MS Word 2004. I consider this to be a Word problem rather than a Tiger problem. Next to it is another Indigo iMac/500 (August 2001) with 768MB of RAM and 10.3.9, for my right hand. One is as fast as the other, with minor variations. Apostrophe will be well served by either OS, given enough RAM for the purpose. One distinct advantage of Tiger is that Apple is still supporting it, for the noo if not forever.

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