On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 07:02 PM, Mario Cajina wrote:
> OS X is not supposed to run on those machines. I wouldn't even try it if
> I were you. You're not going to get the full effect of the OS on a
> machine that old. I'm running OS X on a G4 Cube now (runs very well),
> but I wouldn't even try it on an iMac (the G3 kinds less than 500 MHz).
It's fine on an iMac as long as it has the Rage 128 chip for video, I
ran it on a 400MHz G3 and it was great.
> I have two 8500s, I don't bother with anything higher than Mac OS 9.1
> which runs decently on them.
Very wise.
> If you really want to make a good OS 9.1
> machine of your 8500, get a G3 (or G4) processor upgrade, a good video
> card (one of mine has an ATI Rage Orion) and all the RAM you can afford.
That setup will run OS X easily if you get a G4 from XLR8 or Sonnet,
they provide drivers to let you run OS X on their upgrade cards.
> Why bother trying to make the 8500 run OS X? It wasn't designed for that
> machine and if something goes seriously wrong, you're out of a Mac
> unless you have an extra one.
OS X installations will not kill your Mac, it's only an OS for gawds
sake! It is not even likely to damage your hard disk, it's Uninx not
Windows!
> Just a suggestion ... if you break your Mac, don't say that nobody
> warned you.
That depends how you define 'break', if you mean stop it booting yes it
might but it will not cause any damage you can't recover with a hard
disk strip and re-install.
My advice is don't try it on a stock xx00 Mac, it's gonna be way too
slow. Add a G4/400 and a Rage 128 PCI card to it and then try. It's not
gonna do you any harm either way.
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