I concur 100%. My 1996 PowerMac 7600 with a G4 Sonnet 1000 MHz, IDE HD connected to internal IDE card and plenty of RAM screams with OS 9, but when I boot off OS X it can barely keep the pace of a modest Wallstreet 233MHz.
I beleive it is pointless being able to install whatever OS on whatever Mac when it takes days to startup and weeks to pull down menus. Sent from my iPad On 27/lug/2012, at 23:40, Illirik Smirnov <illir...@gmail.com> wrote: > It reminds me of what my sophomore History through Film teacher said when I > used Saving Private Ryan as the subject of my report on propaganda films: > "Sometimes, its fun to be all countercultural and stuff and do things > differently, but sometimes everyone does it one way for a good reason". To > each his own, but Leopard is just beyond the capabilities of even the fastest > G3 to run with any sense of fluency; there's a reason Apple lets you install > 10.4 on em but not 10.5. I see the point of running 10.5 on, say, a G4 100MHz > below the limit with capable RAM and video card (esp. if you can't live > without spaces and stacks, like me), but 10.5 is kinda silly. It'll be like > your 6100 (although stick a Sonnet G4 in it and see what happens with OSX; > I'd love to see someone try and put 10.5 on it). Will it work? Yes. Well > enough to do it for any reason besides "because I can?" No. > Illirik Smirnov > > > > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:08 PM, MaGioZal <magio...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/23/12 4:18 PM, Illirik Smirnov at <illir...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Yes and yes, but I think that it's probably a better idea to XPostFacto in > > retail 10.5.8 in if you REALLY want Leopard, and I see no reason why you > > want > > it on a G3. It *will* run poorly. I keep either OS9 or 10.3 on all of my G3s > > (which is a small sample size, seeing as how all I have is an iMac G3 and a > > Clamshell to go with it). A 350-400+MHz G3 running OS9 is a capable machine, > > on 10.3 its slow but usable, on 10.4 it's barely usable; I can't imagine it > > running well in 10.5. > > > But I like some challenges and experiments...;-) > > I remember back in 2001 that many people said it would be practically > impossible to install and use Mac OS 9.1 on a PowerMac 6100 I had at the > time. Well, I've installed... And it worked. Slowly, but anyway, I could use > iTunes, broadband internet and CD burning (and also a 1024x768 video > resolution trough the AV card). > > I put the brave 6100 (upgraded with a Sonnet G3 processor that many times > refused to work properly...) into retirement in 2006, between other things > because there was no way to install Mac OS X on it. ;-P > > > > > > -- > MaGioZal. > <http://facebook.com/magiozal/> > > > -- > 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > > -- > 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
