The G4/733 has 256 MB RAM. CCorsair wants to upgrade the RAM and has updated from OS 9.1.1 to 9.2.2. It is not clear whether CCorsair upgraded this Mac to OS X or is talking about someone else's machines.
CCorsair: Have you upgraded your machine to OS X? If not, and you want to make the move at a later date, OS X 10.3 Panther and 10.4 Tiger are your practical choices. 10.3 should have 512 MB RAM, and 10.4 should have 768. I would recommend at least 1 GB RAM in either case. You can install OS X on the hard drive that runs OS 9.2.2 without erasing/reformatting it. But if you do erase/reformat, make sure you check the little box in Disk Utility to install the OS 9 drivers. Then, I would install OS 9 first and OS X after that, but some people say the order does not matter except for the very first versions of OS X. You can continue to run all the OS 9 applications by booting into OS 9. You can also boot into OS X, configure for Classic Mode, and then run most OS 9 applications satisfactorily in Classic Mode while booted in OS X. But Final Cut and other heavy duty software may not be happy in Classic Mode. For peripheral devices, some old printers and scanners that run fine with OS 9 will not work well in OS X. Most new printers will not work with OS 9, so people may be forced to run in Classic Mode where OS X is handling the printer while you need to print from the OS 9 application. Al Poulin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
