At 4:33 PM -0800 2/19/04, GDB-G3-OS92 wrote:I recently bought one of these machines on Ebay. It only has 96 Mb of RAM,
is this too little to run OS-X? It's a 266 Mhz speed. What is the best way
to be able to use the Windows fileserver drives I have on my network? I had
DoubleTalk on my 7200 machine, but that software did not work very good at
all.
No it's not enough. I tried running the installer with 96Mb on my Wallstreet and it wouldn't fly. Get at least 256Mb. Apple lists 128Mb as minimum but that will not really cut it.
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Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
I'd agree - when someone mentions that you should consider 256MB of RAM the minimum, I'd listen. I ran Jag on a beige G3/300 with 160MB of RAM, and I'd get frequent application crashes, and lots of disk thrashing when I'd switch between the applications I had running(Mail, Safari, Textedit, Yahoo Messenger). When I bumped it to 512MB, no more application crashing, and no more disk thrashing. I could even add iTunes and Limewire to the previously mentioned application list, and things were still smooth. It may not make any *single* application any faster, but it will certainly improve your system's responsiveness when you have multiple applications open.
I'd say 256MB should be the minimum, and get as much as you can above that. I gave my girlfriend a summer-2000 iMac DV/SE 500 with 512MB of RAM, and aside from the graphics performance, that little thing really does well.
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