For a while I had 2 of them. They looked identical. However one was 330 MHz without a firewire, and the other was 500MHz with firewire. They had 9.2 and were reasonably fast. I put OS 10.3 on one and it worked but was slow. I tried to add more memory(both had 288 MB) but it was major surgery. Couldn't even find the memory. Quit looking after I got info on the internet that the iMacs often had laptop memory, one 64MB soldered and the other a max of 256. Memory accessible after removing bottom, and unscrewing a removeable metal tray with cables, not very intuitive. I wouldn't pay for one. Tony
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Don Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: > No, most of the popular distros were available on PPC. I hadn't seen the > $100 price on YDL - every copy I ever got was either free or for cost of > shipping (when they sent free samples for ITEC Expo, they paid the > shipping), and I've downloaded YDL from time to time. Of course, if you do > want to buy a support agreement, or have them build your data center for > you, the cost would be a bit more, but even then, there are different > pricing tiers, so you could as much or as little as you want to (to them - > you also have to consider what you pay the local help who do the > installation/configuration). > So, installing Linux under common license provisions is not a restriction > for these machines. Again, I will encourage accepting only the higher-end > models (Firewire). > > --Don Ellis > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> That's tricky. What OS do you plan to use for the G3s (if you do >> choose to accept)? >> >> G3 = PowerPC chip. As far as I know, Yellow Dog is the only Linux >> distro which will run on PowerPC Macs. Don't know how it works now, >> but in the past Yellow Dog came with a pretty high price tag @ $100+ >> per license. Still open source but no GPL. Perhaps not the best >> investment for ByteWorks. >> >> Best, >> Matt Duchek >> >> On Jan 7, 12:21 pm, "Robert Citek" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello all, >> > >> > ByteWorks has the opportunity to acquire 20-30 G3 iMacs. I don't know >> > the specifics (e.g. cpu, ram, hdd, etc.) but apparently they all work. >> > Give than these are all-in-one models, ByteWorks is hesitant to take >> > them in because if they are too low-end or they don't work, then they >> > would cost time, money, and effort to dispose of. >> > >> > Does anyone here know of an organization that might be interested in >> > putting them to re-use? >> > >> > Regards, >> > - Robert >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
