Hi
I've posted something similar on a different heading. But I'm afraid i have to agree with what's been said. Up until a few weeks ago i was using an 8500 G3 333Mhz with OS 9.2.
My first mac was an 8200, but gutted it and installed an 8500 mobo. For the 10 months that i've owned it, it's been a great machine. Aside from some flaky system 127 errors, that force me to copy a backup of my system folder back onto my startup disk once or twice a month.
Tried to install OSX with Xpost (Think thats the name) But on reboot it didn't want to boot from my CD-ROM because it was old.
I think the last nail in the coffin, was using my brothers Imac 400 DV. He had 9.2 installed and it just flew. When i got home, my 8500 just didn't seem the same. It felt slow and reminiscent of my old 486 DX2/66 PC.
Looked on ebay saw a B/W going cheap, made a deal and got a G3 350/128mb/10gb/DVDrom for �160. Installed OS 10.3 and never looked back. Now i'm slowly transferring all my apps and files over to the new B/W.
I'll never part with my 8500, but after getting the B/W. I don't think i could ever use it as a main machine again.
Cheers James
On 2 Dec 2004, at 15:11, Stacy Dunkle wrote:
On Dec 2, 2004, at 9:43 AM, Stewart, Brian C wrote:
Yeah. These old beasts are getting OLD.
This is exactly what I did about 2 years ago. I spend a lot more then $150.
My problem is the B&W runs mac os X 10.3 so sweet that I do not feel forced
enough to upgrade to a dual 1.25 GHz MDD or a G5... New games are a little
slow but usually acceptable. The 8500/200MHz runs most older apps - Adobe
4/5 and Mac OS 9 very well. A G4 upgrade for the 8500 would be an exercise
in frustration. At the very least look into a Beige G3 and pop in a G4-700.
The BUS speed and memory speed limitations of the PCI PowerPCs will always
come around and bite you in the butt.
I have to agree with this. I got my 9600 about 2 years ago and went all out on upgrades, 800mhz G4, 896MB ram, Radeon video card, all for the intent of running OS X. I thought it was great for a while, until I sat down at a slot-loading iMac 400mhz G3. For stuff like some games and emulators, the 9600 was still faster, but for everyday things such as web browsing, iTunes, iPhoto, etc., the 400mhz iMac was much more responsive.
After that, using OS X on the 9600 felt like walking through water up to my neck; sluggish. I now keep OS 9.2.2 on the 9600, and use it for various odd tasks, such as downloading large files, and especially for DV video editing, which it does well in OS 9, something that was next to impossible on the same machine in OS X.
-Stace
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