---------- Original message ---------- Subject: Re: B&W G3 -> G4 Upgrade Revisited. Date: Sonntag 23 Mai 2010N From: Gus <[email protected]> To: "G-Group" <[email protected]>
> Thing is the mb in the g3 is twitchy anyway and needs replacement or > the whole thing needs to be thrown in the trash. If it works it works. I'm not a native speaker (my native tongue is German), but why do you think you may have to throw it in the trash if you can still start it up? Or is it a “sometimes it starts up, sometimes not” situation? > I am not a big utube > user to begin with and mostly just do text processing and cd burning > with it. Like me. I use my G3 B&W with Mac OS X 10.4.11 for text processing (OpenOffice.org 3.2 and Microsoft Office:mac 2004) and internet browsing (Camino, Firefox, Safari, in that order; no YouTube!). BTW, Microsoft Office:mac is quite speedy for running on an G3 B&W 350 MHz, OpenOffice.org on the other hand… I think it is > 1 minute until I see it has been started, and it isn't very responsive when working with it too. But what can I say? I need the compatibility of ODF documents. I don't do CD burning though. > I know toast likes the g4 and I have noticed many "tiger" > apps that are requiring a g4 or better to work. I hardly believe that. I read somewhere that for the Intel Macs to be able to continue running PowerPC applications you need Rosetta installed. This Rosetta emulates PowerPC _without_ AltiVec and without G5 optimization. So it basically gives you a G4 without AltiVec – which is a G3! So anything that will run on Rosetta on an Intel Mac (on Leopard or on Snow Leopard) will therefore also run on a Power Mac G3 – and I'd say this is about 99% of all G4 applications. Also, normally every program that is design to run on Tiger is also able to run on a G3 B&W, since this Mac is officially supported for Tiger and thus a program officially supporting Tiger must also support the G3 B&W. For example: the Microsoft Open XML File Format Converter 1.1.3 (released 10th of November 2009) officially required Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, but I tested it on Tiger – on my G3 B&W (!) – and it worked! Maybe what you experience is that some programs do some checking and don't like the few MHz of your processor. But they should refuse to start with an error message, that they require a faster processor to run. Cheers, Andreas aka Mac User #330250 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
