On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 21:03:25 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (K) wrote: >I bought a 4 G hard drive and the former owner left on it a clean install >of system 9.1, which booted fine on the 5300. I had it installed in a >powerbook 5300ce (active matrix screen, 117mz, 64 mb ram). The 5300ce >needs to log into a NT server, a Citrix metaframe, run Office 98, DAVE >and/or an old version of Virtual PC (however slowly) > >a) My question is, should I leave on 9.1 for the networking capability, or >is it far too demanding of the 5300? >b) Or, is system 8.6 better for these requirements? (I do not want to run a >system older than this)
I don't know...the memory consumption isn't much different between 8.6 and 9.1 anyway, so I'd just leave 9.1 on there. As far as networking capability, there's little difference between 9 and 8.6, so that's a wash, I think. DAVE runs perfectly fine under 9.1 (you may have to get the very latest update, though) I have version 2.5.1 installed on my home desktop (running 9.1) and it works fine. Office 98 should run fine. With only 64 megs of RAM, VPC will run _really_ slowly. I'd avoid it like the plague. As for Citrix, I've no clue...didn't even know Citrix _had_ a Mac client... As for NT logins it'll work fine, with either DAVE or NT's own SFM. I use my 540c in this role all the time. It's slow, but that's because it's a 540c ;-) >c) Since I would be running at least system 8.6, is Speed Doubler 8 helpful >since there is PPC code in this system? No. Speed Doubler is just a source of hassles and crashes, imo. All it really did was to speed up file transfer in the Finder, and that's much improved in Sys 9. Bruce Johnson College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
