I find myself doing something I never expected to do, asking questions about a G4 eMac. I have a friend who has an 8 year (or so) old eMac (ATI). While I haven't actually moved the unit so I could read the sticker (it's sorta bulky), I think it is an M9150LL/A with an 800MHz G4. www.everymac.com/systems/apple/emac/stats/emac_800_ati.html
I was wondering if anything other than performance might go wrong if I moved her eMac to Leopard? Technically it doesn't meet the minimum requirement of 867MHz, but it's not very far off. So if the only concern is how well it might perform it seems like it's worth trying it to find out. I believe she's still running 10.3.9, Panther. I think she might be using Internet Explorer as her web browser over a dial up connection. (I'd love to move her to something faster than dial-up, but she can't really afford anything much beyond the $10/mo she's paying now for NetZero.) The main reason I expect to be messing with this eMac in a rather major way some day is because when I attempted to back up her drive last night with CCC, it was (1) unexpectedly slow and, more seriously, (2) there were drive read errors in the CCC log. So far the files the read errors occur on are nothing important. But I'm thinking the 8 year old Seagate ST340015A 40GB drive in this eMac is due to die. Probably sooner rather than later. Oh, almost forgot. I'm not sure if it is still using the original PRAM (?) battery or not. If so, that might also be on its last legs. If some day ... sure as heck not going to be THIS month, but if some day after I file my taxes I ever go inside the eMac to swap the hard drive, it probably would be prudent to replace the PRAM at the same time. Where do you folks go to buy those? About how much does a replacement battery usually cost? Dang! I started this note intending to ask only one question, maybe two at the most. Oh, well. -irrational john -- 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
