>In any case, not all G3s have problems on OS X. There are plenty of >people on LEM's G-list with B&W G3s who say they're running OS X very >well and love it.
That's why I said OS X doesn't run 'as well' on G3's. Don't get me wrong, I run OS X (10.4 even) on pleanty of G3s. Heck, I'm running 10.4 on original bondi iMacs (233 MHz), and it runs very nicely. When compared to running against a G4, a model that has proper "quartz extreme" supported video, and has the ability to run more of the UI stuff at a faster pace and smoother... then yeah, the G3's suck, when run side by side with a G4. But the G3's are still great at OS X. My comparison was simply, if someone is looking at buying a used Mac... are they going to spend $10 on a 400 MHz G3, or $30 on a 800 MHz G4. They will spend the $30. That is going to cause the $10 G3s to drop even further in value until they become not worth the time of most people to even try to sell... thus they will throw them curbside for garbage pick up. I'm drooling over that day, because I'll happily take all the G3's I can get for free :-) >I'm thinking that if I'm ever going to >HAVE TO make major changes in my computer usage (specifically, giving up >the Classic OS and having to learn OS X), I might just go with Linux >instead. If you are thinking about jumping to Linux, can I recommend that before you do that, you take a look at OS X. I can tell you that you will spend FAR more time and aggrivation learning Linux, and keeping it working correctly then you will with OS X. OS X is not OS 9, and I won't for a moment pretend that it is. But OS X isn't that bad. It *was* that bad in the early days, but it has come a very long way, and each new version gets it that much better. Linux on the other hand can make Windows look friendly. Besides, in the end, if you are like me and tend to use hardware until it is really dead (my new Intel iMac was a fluke, I got it because I needed it for a work project, and they footed the bill for it... if it was up to me to buy it out of my pocket, I'd have not bought it)... then you need only worry about going to OS X as far as a "front end" to your classic software. Once you can make that jump, you can pick up any number of cheaper used PPC machines. Wait for that G4 price drop that will be coming, and grab a used mini or early G4 tower or eMac for a few bucks. Then learn enough of OS X to be able to deal with it to get to your Classic apps running on OS X. Now you only need to worry about a few specific peripherals (some scanners, localtalk or serial only printers, scsi devices... unless you get a tower and a scsi card... ADB only devices... and at this point, there are work arounds for many of the otherwise unsupported devices) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
