At 10:25 AM -0500 11/27/2010, Norm Rowe wrote:
I have a G4 gigabyte Mac
You mean a Power Mac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet)? Not a "gigabyte". Nice
machine, the GigE.
which was built in 2000 according to Tech Tools and is now at 10.5.8
with many fire wire and USB additions with a 1000gig processor and 2
megs of ram.
You mean a 1 GHz (or 1000 MHz) processor and 2 GB or RAM. Can't run
any OS on only 2 MB of RAM!
I'm really getting TO because there are getting to be very few thing
that will work on it.
Donno what that sentence means, "getting TO"?
It would seem to me that a 1 GHz G4 running Leopard is quite a
capable machine. What exactly won't work on it?
Now I understand that Lion will not work even on some older Intel
Macs. I'm on a fixed income so a new mac is out of the question for
now.
Wait until the actual specs for Lion are published, then start
perusing the used market for an x86 machine that can handle it. Keep
in mind that your existing GigE, with all those updates, has some
great market value! So your net, after selling the old hardware,
shouldn't be too bad.
- Dan.
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