[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Generally, I recommend going with a lower speed 8600/9600, as these are much more forgiving with G3/G4 upgrades.
A /200 is my usual recommendation for upgrades.
Splitting this off into a new topic, hope no one minds.
The 8500/120 that I recently saved from becoming garbage is doing fine. All the hardware seems to work perfectly, but I'd like to put OS X on this thing. After using OS X, I've fallen in love with it, and have been a proud Mac user for over 1/600 of a century. I've even toyed with my PC to give WinXP more of an OS X feeling.
The PM 8500/120 will run up to OS 9.1, according to Apple's web site. However, I've heard otherwise that with a G3/G4/G5 processor upgrade and some kind of software hack, OS X will install and run on it. This Mac has about 224 MB of RAM and a 1 GB hard drive (which I'll more than likely replace or augment with a second SCSI or IDE drive).
So, my question is, how well do 8500's take G-series upgrades, and what are the minimum requirements for OS X?
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Colin
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