I believe the key is what you use your computer for. If you're a graphic artist or video editor you're probably not going to be happy with a 233 G3...if, like me, you use it primarily for email, surfing, music, text editiing, etc, you might just be as happy as I am.
Best,
Travis On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 03:57 PM, Greville Whittle wrote:
I'd like to say, from personal experience that:
OS X 10.2x Runs Just Fine On A Bondi Blue iMac 233 (rev a/b). I've used it everyday, all day, for the past year or so. Using Photoshop, eLister, email, Safari, iTunes, iView mostly.
Consider making the following Upgrades: Up the memory to 256mb (or more) Up the Hard Drive to 20gb (or more)
I would Also: In the *Displays Control Panel* set *Colors* to Thousands,
*Resolutions * to 600 x 800.
You must partition the hard drive and install OS X on the first 8gb.
It seems the Graphic Chips are not supported in OS X so all display
information is routed through the CPU. In real world experience, for me,
this is only a problem with Video Clips (RealMedia, most Quicktime, etc.).
But you can watch them.
Photoshop 7 runs well enough if not the same as under OS 9.
And to see a video clip in more detail you could open it in Classic.
For a great looking, compact, inexpensive, OS X machine definitely consider
an early iMac.
Monti
> Re: considering a mac
Here, Here!
My Bondi is chugging along quite nicely, it was going to be a test machine so I could see how good OS X was and to justify a processor upgrade I was thinking about.
Well it runs well enough that I can't justify the expense of the upgrade, because I don't use it for anything tooo processor intensive. :)
Greville
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