On Nov 21, 2004, at 10:53 PM, Dylan McDermond wrote:
I didn't know that a mac that will boot an OS level below what it was shipped with. I've also had problems trying to use a mac with less RAM than it was shipped with.
Macs, and the other computers, almost always ship with the bare minimum ram to run. The ram spec is not as sexy of a sell as the megahertz/gigahertz spec.
For example, Apple is currently shipping the current low end macs, the eMac and the G5 iMac with only 256 meg of ram, barely enough to run X and one small application. If they bumped the ram to 512 and cut the processor speed by, say, 15% to sell at the same price point, I am betting that the machines would be more stable and people would have a much better user experience.
Um, Doug, my G3 Beige DT233 runs OS 8.1 with no problem whatsoever. Yes,
I'm going back up to 9.x in the future, but in the meanwhile 8.1 runs
good. Why would Daniel's G3 B&W ONLY run OS 8.6 and higher? Seems to me,
FWIW, according to everymac.com, your beige shipped with 8.0, so 8.1 would be an upgrade from factory stock. I am also willing to wager that you are not running the factory original amount of ram (32 meg) in that system.
Len
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