>I'm running 10.2.6 on a beige G3 with a 400MHz G3 and 448Mb RAM. > >Others will demand more, but IMHO 10.2.6 (faster than 10.1) runs >acceptably if you're not doing big photoshop stuff, nor video, nor >gaming, with a 300Mhz G3 and 384Mb RAM. > >266Mhz and 256Mb would be OK at a pinch.
IMHO it runs on any G3 acceptably, it's the amount of RAM you have that is more critical. My 7300 has 584MB (an odd number i know!) and it runs very well on there on a G3/300 w/ 512k L1 Cache. I have heard from Beige users that 233MHz machines with 768MB RAM and a video card upgrade (either a Rage 128 or a PCI Radeon) work well. OS X is a lot less demanding on CPU power than people make out - I used to run 10.1.5 on my 7300 with the stock 604e/200 in it! It just had huge amounts of RAM - the vast majority of slow-down on old machines is resultant from thrashing of the hard disk (more of an issue on IDE machines as it is compunded by older ATA types (EIDE and ATA33) that are less CPU friendly) trying to swap the enormous volumes of data around. -- Mark Benson http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
