Re: Best OS for 233 Mhz imac

[Travis Martin]

I wonder what the difference is? I run 10.2.6 on two 233 beige DT's, 
two 300 MT's, a 233 iMac, a 400DV iMac, two B&W 400's, and a 466se 
iBook; all have upwards of 160megs of ram and all seem acceptably fast 
to me. Granted, I don't use any graphics-intensive apps like Photoshop 
or Illustrator---mostly Mail, Safari, and iTunes---but I'm not sure why 
we're having such different experience. Maybe my idea of acceptable is 
different from yours. I just rarely feel like I'm waiting on the 
computer...now, the ISP connection can be a different matter, but 
that's not the computer's fault...

Travis

On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 05:14 AM, Robert Biren wrote:

Well, if you want to use the latest and greatest OS
then go and get OS 10, but keep in mind the 8 GB
partition issue if the iMac is subject to the same
rules that my beige G3 is. OS 10 will run so slow on a
233 Mhz processor especially if it is a G3. I upgraded
my processor from a G3 266 to a G3 400 and OS 10 still
ran a little on the sluggish side. I have done every
upgrade to this machiene from memory, 30 GB HDD,
ATA133 controller from sonnett, processor, and max
vram, but OS 10 is still slow and is still insistant
on that 8 GB partition issue as well. I finally got
tired of it, zapped the pram, and performed a clean
install of OS 9. Make your own decision on this, I am
just giving you a taste of the pain in the ass that OS
10 gave me with my beige G3.


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