My pismo was a 500MHz unit with 1mb of L2 cache and 512mb of memory and I noticed fairly acceptable performance under both Panther and Tiger. The difference is minimal, and I tended to want to go for Panther since (at the time, before the release of Firefox 3) everything ran under Panther anyway.
By the time that 10.4 became "mandatory" for the modern Internet (or the latest Safari and Firefox versions, at least), it was increasingly difficult to use the Pismo for much, especially as I had wanted to use Office 2008.
With 10.4 and modern Internet apps as well as newer apps like Adobe CS3 and/or Office 2008, it's definitely possible to get everything running, but don't expect to enjoy running more than one app at a time. However, if you just need a writing environment or an environment to check your e-mail, or whatever, then it should honestly be just fine.
My blue/white G3 desktop (450MHz, 1MB L2 cache) has like 320 or 384mb of memory and firefox2/office'04/creativesuite2 all under Panther ran fine on there, but that was even longer ago than my pismo. Although as with anything, more memory will make you more happy as you're using it, especially on a mobile computer with ostensibly limited battery life, or in a case where time may be critical.
I am tempted now to bust out my Power Mac G3 b/w and try 10.3 or 10.4 on it to see how it performs. I'll have to see how much memory I can stuff into it.
By the time that 10.4 became "mandatory" for the modern Internet (or the latest Safari and Firefox versions, at least), it was increasingly difficult to use the Pismo for much, especially as I had wanted to use Office 2008.
With 10.4 and modern Internet apps as well as newer apps like Adobe CS3 and/or Office 2008, it's definitely possible to get everything running, but don't expect to enjoy running more than one app at a time. However, if you just need a writing environment or an environment to check your e-mail, or whatever, then it should honestly be just fine.
My blue/white G3 desktop (450MHz, 1MB L2 cache) has like 320 or 384mb of memory and firefox2/office'04/creativesuite2 all under Panther ran fine on there, but that was even longer ago than my pismo. Although as with anything, more memory will make you more happy as you're using it, especially on a mobile computer with ostensibly limited battery life, or in a case where time may be critical.
I am tempted now to bust out my Power Mac G3 b/w and try 10.3 or 10.4 on it to see how it performs. I'll have to see how much memory I can stuff into it.