On Sunday, July 14, 2002, at 12:15 AM, Mick Ring wrote:
>> I seriously doubt that your machine could handle OS X if you have a G3 >> clocked at 333 Mhz and a 66 Mhz bus speed. > > I don't think that is true. Nor do I. I hate repeating myself, but my lowly original bondiblue iMac 233(1998) with a snail's pace 66 mb bus, a paltry 96mb ram, and the skimpy, slow 4gb HD with 10.1.5 is running better and faster than it ever has. And it has been on all the OSs from the original 8 to 9.1 with exactly this unchanged hardware config. Though it is used mostly for mail at the moment, my daughter does keep up her Newsletter done with NisusWriter under Classic, and QE4.1 is running as well as ever, too. This iMac has not crashed once since going to X. OK, she doesn't game, nor run iTunes. Personally, I don't consider either a criterium for judging a computer. If you seriously want to game, get a G-machine - and that is not a G4. If and when I listen to net radio, I use Windows Media Player, but that is because of wqxr. My own much more extensively used B&WG3WGS/400/640mbRAM has been a model of dependability with X. A single problem occurred - a major kernel panic - in conjunction with the two original IBM SCSIU2 drives. While these did work well enuf under 9, and initially under X as well, the controller started acting up for no apparent reason, resulting in no available boot disc. Booting went easily with any bootable CD, and the HD with X could be seen. The other with 9 was deemed unreadable. Removing that HD did not allowed the machine to boot from the X HD again but replacing the SCSI cable with a brand new one without terminator did. Exchanging the two drives did not allow it to boot from 9. No amount if fiddling with the jumpers or adding terminators made it work. OTOH, an external ZIP worked just fine from the U2 card, but nothing else external did. A simple 50 pin Adaptec SCSI card fixed that, tho. Since both HDs were running hot enuf to fry an egg, I decided then and there to throw them out, and put in a new 20gig Maxtor IDE. Since then, there have been absolutely no problems with the core, and the thing is both cooler and quieter. regards, Bill B&WG3/400/OS10.1.5 DSL router> LAN: iMac 233(bondi blue) OS10.1.5 4400/200/G3-350/OS 9.1 WGS8150/110/G3-300/OS 9.1 http://www.william-jurgenson.com -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
