On Jul 30, 2004, at 10:16 pm, Ian Fleming wrote:
I have a happy G3 266 DT on 9.2.2. I made a under 4g partition ,the first one,when building it for OSX. So far unused . I have 192Meg RAM. Is it really worth putting Jaguar on or will it just run really slowly? Would I be better just moving up to an eMac or used G4?
Going back to the original question....
Jaguar will run very slowly on that machine in it's stock configuration. Panther will probably actually run marginally faster (it can be done - trust me!). To get the best you need a Mac PCI video card with 16 or 32MB of VRAM. There are a few 16MB Rage 128 cards floating about at the moment that are being hoofed out of B&Ws and yikes! G4s.
eMacs are nice and good value at the moment but ultimately if you a re used to a PCI based machine you will be frustrated if you ever want to upgrade later. For the same price as an eMac you could probably find a G4/466 Digital Audio machine which would easily make a great OS X machine with a good handful of PC133 RAM and a decent AGP video card. In addition the DA G4 will take all currently available 'fast' G4 upgrades (up to Dual 1.25GHz!!).
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