On 10.2, I think it was around 380 MB that I saw major speed increase (and I read it in a post somewhere), and was similar with 10.3. Less than that, and it really does run slow. My old PowerBook 2000 [Pismo] (500MHz) still runs pretty well with 10.3, after having upgraded the RAM. Very capable machine. Much better than my old 5300, which was roughly equivalent to a 6100, but portable. With some of the other features in the iMac, I think they were supposed to perform even a bit better than the Pismo.
Funny thing about the Pismo - I had it over a year before I realized it had a fan, from reading a note online. Newer models are much noisier (but also a lot faster/hotter). --Don Ellis On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Anthony Lordi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
