Sparky 191 asked:
What sort of min spec iMac do you guys reckon is suitable for OSX?
It depends on your own definition of "suitable." Any of them will run OSX, given sufficient hard drive space and RAM. I had a blueberry Rev. D tray-loader upon which I installed 10.2, just as an experiment. With a properly-partitioned 7200-rpm 40gb drive and 288mb RAM it worked tolerably for casual use. The fast drive helped a _lot_; programs launched on the iMac faster than the same OS version on the 700mHz iBook I had at the time, but anything else was slow. It was much happier with 9.1, frankly.
Personally, I'd go with a 400mHz slot-loader at the minimum. They can take more RAM, don't have the 8gb partitioning requirement, and have faster CD drives and adequately-sized hard drives from the factory. There's no use sinking a bunch of money into it unless you really like hot-rodding the thing, and I'll concede that there's a certain satisfaction to souping up something. Frankly, though, I'd go straight to an eMac rather than do that; in fact, I did!
Steve W.
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