On Tuesday, May 3, 2005, at 12:47 AM, Bolton Peck wrote:
Robert H. Baucom wrote:
Since this has Morphed into a discussion of OS X; let me ask this,
1. " What's the deal on OS 10.4 ?
2. Will it run on a 500MHz G3 Daughter board PTP ? It has 1 GB Ram.
3. Is the current hack only for (up to) 10.3.8?
I've read some of the folk's postings on 10.4, and it sounds more problematic than the Performas.
RHB
From what I've read, they are working on it over at XpostFacto ville ;-) I'm not ready to try it yet, I've just gotten over the trauma of getting to 10.3 along with the catastrophic failure of the system drive containing my beloved 10.2 install :-(( It just turned up its tits and died, with a horrible whining clicking sound.. And, although I was running Thunderbird from another drive, I can't seem to find my emails anywhere, I think it stashed them somewhere in the sytem drive :-(
10.4 looks cool, I'm sure its all that and a bag of chips..
It should run fine on 500MHz, 10.3 runs great here on a 375MHz CPU with 512MB. I'd say it REQUIRES a PCI Radeon though. 64meg version preferred..
The current hack works here with 10.3.9, the latest upgrade from Apple.
Can't answer to its viability on the Performas, I never dared to try. Plus I don't have one of the rare later Performas with a PCI slot for the Radeon..
I'd say that the leap to 10.3 is worth it though, if you haven't done it already.
Bolton
I'm running 10.2 on my eMac ... which I only seem to use for email. My PTP with the Sonnet 500mhz G3 card and OS 9.1 is more productive for me. I plan to put 10.3 on it (or my PCP 240 with Sonnet 500mhz G3 card and OS 9.1) just to be able to use mail. instead of the MicroSuck or Nutscrape products. That would give me more time in the winter to delve into X . Right now, after two years, it still seems as strange to me as Windows 3.1.
If 10.3 is that much of an improvement, I'd better get on the web and look for the best price.
RHB
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