At 7:14 PM -0700 5/11/09, McGrude wrote: > > The first machine is an iMac. I am guessing from his description it is >> either an early G5 or 2nd gen G5 iMac but I have not seen the machine >> yet. He will be bringing it in soon >> >> The 2nd machine is a iBook G4 933mhz, 256 mb RAM, 40 GB hard drive, >> airport extreme, CD-RW/DVD-ROM (combo drive I guess), battery life of >> maybe 5 mintues - effectively dead. > > >I'd say 10.5 for both. If he keeps the iBook then he'll definitely >want to get >a battery and a memory upgrade. If it were me I'd put the maximum amount >of RAM in both machines, install 10.5 and be happy for a year or two. > > - Mike >
I agree. The iBook should do fine with 10.5 if it gets more RAM (as usual, the more the better), but will be molasses without it no matter what version of OSX he puts on it. It'll be a decent machine for email/web/wordprocessing and such that a student should be doing, and fairly slow for things like photoshop and probably lousy for gaming. Which is a good thing IMO. It's old enough that it doesn't scream "steal me" the way a new 'book would. -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com> Sustainable Building Calendar: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/> Green Real Estate: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/> Straw Bale Registry: <http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/> Books/videos/software: <http://bookstore.greenbuilder.com/> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
