On Jul 27, 2005, at 9:28 PM, Jeff Wenzel wrote:
I'm considering purchasing a pb g3 wsII 300mhz, running 8.5 with 192MB/8g hd, DVD card and drive. Haven't worked or played with macs since 1994 (can you even imagine???) so I'm essentially clueless - but hey, I found this group so I can't be beyond help (I hope). I've read how to trick it to get beyond the 192 and get to 512 for RAM. That's good - but as far as operating systems go - where does that max out? How far down the road is it before the latest web browsers won't work with an "ancient" OS?
The Wallstreet supports up to 10.2.8 natively, 10.3 and maybe 10.4 with the use of XPostFacto. DVD playback in OS X is NOT supported with DVD Player, but I believe there are viewers that work (VLC?)
Also, with everything SCSI are there any 3rd party adapters out there for plugging in digital cameras/dv recorders?
PCMCIA Firewire and USB cards abound.
I'm not trying or expecting to run the world with this computer - I'd just like to own a mac again and am wondering what the bottom line expectations should be with this unit. What will it do and what will it not do.
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