In a message dated 3/2/2005 9:21:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, Tim Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
None of my current Macs can even boot OS 9. Minimum system any of them can
boot is 10.3.5. Where does that leave me? Oh yeah, I forgot, I don't use
Classic......don't even have it on any of my Macs.
That's understandable. Your machine was built to run the Unix based system OSX. There's a lot of oldies mac users out there, mine are G3 333 and G3 400.
Now, what to do with all those if ALL people could afford the new ones? Should we just dump the old ones and leave them in the dust -I better not speak too loud my IIci is nearby, she could hear me. Maybe the old G3 users should NOT even convert to OSX, they should keep the early G3 native OS9 and save themselves the trouble maybe(?)... (well I dont fall in that category cause I am already running OSX). So if you want to run OSX you better get a G4 or G5, if not... forget it. You wont get accepted by the new groove society.
I hope you can understand my point. Lili
I guess I just don't really understand this reasoning at all. As I've said before on this list, I don't have any "latest and greatest" Macs, but almost all my "OSX-capable" Macs are running it quite happily. I only have one G4, and it's an old Sawtooth. The others are all G3 machines; a 333 iMac (Jag), a B&W 400 (o/c'ed to 450) running Panther, and my 700 iBook running Panther as well. My G3 AIO "Molar" will be running Jag as soon as I do a bit more upgrading to it. I've already put in a 300 mhz ZIF out of a B&W that I've got running at 366, and I will add some more RAM and swap out the 4gb drive for a bigger one, and I'm sure it will run Jag just fine. The biggest issue with running OSX is to have enough hard drive space and RAM. If not, you won't be happy. Guaranteed! As far as the stability of OSX is concerned, I have had way less system and app crashes running X than I ever had when I was "limited" to running 9. Especially after Jag was released, and Panther has been even better. The only Kernel panics I've had have been hardware related. On the B&W I had a hardware conflict of some kind (been so long I can't remember exactly what), and on my iBook when the hard drive was dying. Sure I'll have an occasional "unexpected" app crash. Usually Limewire, and occasionally Firefox when I have too many tabs open, but otherwise I have system uptimes going into several weeks sometimes. The only time I need to restart is after a system update. And I don't believe my experience is atypical. If you are having lots of system crashes, look at your RAM situation. You may have some flaky RAM or just not enough. To me, 512mb should be the minimum. Also, if your drive doesn't have enough free space, that can cause plenty of grief as well. A drive that is going bad can cause spurious problems too.
HTH
JR
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