On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 01:31 PM, Craig Rodgers wrote:

> I wouldn't bother with OS X based on your mothers needs, OS 9.1, or
> even 8.6 will run much better on a 233, even if you clock it up to
> 300Mhz OS X will still be slow. I have a 333Mhz beige with a Rage 128
> Pro video card and an ATA/66 card, and OS X, while usable, is much
> much less responsive than OS 9.1.
>

while it ain't a Beige G3, my experience with an original bondiblue iMac 
233 with all of 96mb ram tell me that this just ain't so. The 233 with 
10.1.5 never ran faster or better under any of the installed classic 
OSs(8-9.2), and it never crashes!

b


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