From: "KeshavTADIMETI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi all I am PC user - Windoes/FreeBSD/Linux (occassional). Before I take the jump and buy a new iMac, I want to buy a used iMac and check whether I like it. is it possible to install & run OS X on a 233MHz , 96 MB, 4.2 GB spec machine?
No. You'll have less than half your disk space left after install, and you'll need to up the RAM to at least 256MB to get any kind of good performance out of it. I'm guessing that if you go ahead, your experience will be slow and unsatisfactory.
I mean, think about it: would Windows XP run will on a 300MHz Pentium II w/the same specs? Of course not.
OS X was designed for today's machines and better; not machines from over FIVE YEARS ago.
If you're looking for an inexpensive "first Mac," I'd strongly suggest an eMac (which routinely sell for around $700) or a used/refurbished iMac of 500MHz and up (and even then, you'll need to up the RAM on both of them fairly high -- 512MB seems a sweet spot).
All IDE hard drives are Mac compatible. They just need to be reformatted.If I am happy with it, I might plug in my 40GB internal IDE Western Digital HDD which is supposed to be Mac compatible. Is it possible to do this?
Can I dual boot in a Mac with Linux?Yes, but I don't know how. Check with the nice folks at Yellow Dog PPC Linux.
1. It's not a MAC, it's a Mac. It's not an acronym for anything.And do we use PC memory for the Mac, or does it have specific memory cards? I plan to take out by PC 133 128MB RAM and add it to the MAC.
2. Your PC 133SDRAM *should* work, but Macs are much pickier about the quality of RAM than PC machines (yet another reason why PCs crash more often). I'd suggest trying it, but if you get any unusual behaviour like crashes (VERY unusual in OS X) then replace that RAM with a nice 256 or 512 stick from 1-800-4-MEMORY or some other mac-knowledgeable vendor.
Lastly are there freeware/shareware for mac like textpad/notetab/winzip.
Textpad's Mac equivalent would be TextEdit, it's free and included with the OS.
Don't know what Notetab is, but I'll bet the included Stickies covers it.
WinZip's Mac equivalent is Stuffit Expander (free) from aladdinsys.com. A copy should be included on the OS, but if not you can DL it from that URL. Stuffit Lite (shareware) or Stuffit Deluxe (about $70 I think) will let you "stuff" files, and Panther (the next version of OS X, due out around the end of this month -- so I'd wait a bit before buying if I were you!) will include automatic ZIP compression in Mail (and possibly throughout the system).
_Chas_
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