On Jun 4, 2005, at 11:06 PM, James Carroll wrote:
I picked up a dirt cheap beige G3 Server Tower (really neat case) and
upped
the cpu to a 400mhz unit. So far so good. It's got OS 8.5.1 on it
and is
really snappy. I popped a 32 meg ATI card into it and that's good,
especially with my 21" Nokia Monitor. I put a DVD ROM/CDRW drive in
it and
that's okay. I can do data DVD's fine but I don't have software for
DVD
movies on it. So far I've been happy with all my upgrades...next I
want OS
X. Will I need any more hardware to get OS X to run on this?
Any input appreciated.
James Carroll
Seeing as how you didn't mention how much RAM the machine has, I'd say
256 Mb is the minimum you would need to run OSX. 10.2.x should run
just fine on the system. I say 'should' because the beige monsters can
sometimes be cantankerous (put that in your spell checker and smoke
it!), when it comes to installing X. If your 32 Mb ATI card doesn't
have a hardware decoder for the DVD's, you will need one of those for
watching movies in anything less than X. HTH
Just a message from Doug...
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