There. you see what I keep telling you? Sometimes OS upgrades
aren't that great, but that's no reason not to at least try them out.
As for 10.3, I've run it on two iMac 400 mHz, two iBooks G4s, and now
a B&W 400 mHz. In all cases it's run very well, better than previous
versions. Eventually I plan to have enough disks/partitions to run
all versions of OS X on my B&W, so for now I just have overall
impressions. Also, I'm currently running only at 384 megs on the
B&W. For quite some time one of the iMacs went along happily enough
at 256 megs of RAM. 256 will do the job, but I wouldn't try running
alot of programs at once. The basics, however, like email, web, word
processor should do fine.
Brian
On Jun 14, 2005, at 1:57 AM, Yersinia wrote:
Hi Listers,
Oh. My. Goodness!!!!!!!!! You all better sit down for this one --
I just kicked my G3/266 Beige DT from OS 9.1 up to OS 9.2.2! Yes,
Me! I
upgraded!
Wow! This kicks some serious posterior!
I've had the 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 free upgrades sitting on my hard drive
for
quite a long time now since this upgrade was something I'd intended
originally, but then decided against it because of some bad
experiences
and bad memories from past upgrades (and finally getting my Mac
just the
way I wanted it: if it ain't broke, don't fix it). However, all the
OS 9
discussions of the last day or two got me thinking about it again.
So you
all wanna know who got through my solid neutronium skull?
Thank you, RTowsley -- <My experience is same as Eric's & no OS 9
Helper
needed on Beige G3's.>
Thank you, Eric in Phoenix -- <I upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2.1 and .2
on two
Beige 266 desktops. No problem at all.I did notice that the 9.2.x
systems
did seem to boot a little faster and finder response was snappier.
Thank you, John Laughlin -- <In my experience, 9.2.2 feels almost like
8.6, in speed. 9.0 and 9.1 are
just too Slooooow...>
Okay, so I was a little paranoid, hahaha, I updated all my backups
first
and used my OS 9.1 CD as the startup disk, but once those were done I
installed 9.2.1 and immediately proceeded to 9.2.2. Much to my
pleasant
and shocked surprise, on top of the definite speed increase (whoa
does my
G3 boot fast now!), I didn't have to actually "fix" anything like I've
had to do with past upgrades (my desktop picture, for instance). Even
most of my Recent Applications and Recent Documents were still
there, and
the Apple Menu Items exactly in place.
This is SOOO COOOOOL..... :-D
~Yersinia.
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