Yeah, I run leopard on the desktops, but not the iBook. Just too much
monkey shenanigans with that OS for the book to deal with. Were the
ibook dual core, I could see leopard, but 10.4 is more than adequate
for what I need the laptop to do.
clay
On Jun 27, 2009, at 9:48 AM, Allan Streib wrote:
Ed Booher <edboo...@gmail.com> writes:
The G4 iBook was a very nice machine, and these two examples will
allow you to run Leopard, the last PowerPC version of the Mac OS. If
you are going to buy one of these machines just to learn the OS, then
one of these would be my recommendation.
I run Tiger on my 1Ghz G4 powerbook, I think it will run Leopard but
it
will probably struggle. There's nothing in Leopard that I really
*need*
so I've stayed with Tiger. I have Leopard on a newer machine at work,
and it's nice, but I really think you need a faster, newer (Intel) Mac
to really take advantage of it.
Do not, under any circumstances, buy a G3 anything.
Agreed, by comparison with anything today it will be slow enough to be
annoying. You can run Linux or BSD on it and get some use out of it,
but I would not pay for one. If someone gave me one I might play with
it.
First, the PowerPC (PPC) architecture is well and truly dead. Snow
Leopard,
Mac OS X 10.6, is Intel only and has absolutely no PPC code left in
the
system. Most games already are using a series of code that allows
Windows
games to be quickly ported to the *Intel* version of the Mac OS by
using
some of the WINE code to compile into the code to make the Windows
API
specific parts of the game think they are running on a Windows
machine. This
means that there is already software that simply will not run on
any version
of the PPC Mac OS, and that will only get worse as new software is
written
specifically for Snow Leopard.
All true, but if you just want to play with Mac OS and see if you
might
like it enough to invest in a new machine, I think a a couple of
hundred
dollars for the iBook is not a bad way to go. Even if it's running
Tiger, not Leopard. Tiger is still close enough to the current "look
and feel" of Mac OS to allow you to decide if you like it or not.
Games? That's just one of those areas I don't give a s*it about and
don't know anything about. I'm sure what you say is correct, but if
you
are not a gamer it's irrelevant. I don't run any purchased software
on
my Mac other than the OS itself. You can get almost anything from the
open source unix world via MacPorts, and there are many other good,
free
applications that have been ported (e.g. if you need an "office"
suite,
you can get OpenOffice). The latest version of Safari is a good
browser, but if you want Firefox you can use that, along with
Thunderbird email if you don't like Apple's Mail program.
Get the iBook, play with it, if you like it enough to want to buy a
new
Mac you can probably get your money back selling the iBook; it's lost
enough of its value already that a few more months won't make much
difference.
Allan
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1983 300D
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