Re: 533MHZ Digital Audio G4 won't boot to OS9.1 retail CD

2011-03-03 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 2, 2011, at 9:09 PM, jsmanson wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_9 give a look at the table at the bottom under the PowerPC Digital Audio G4, and it tells you that: OS 9.0 is NFG; 9.1 is OK, but it needs a 'custom' version of the 9.1 install disk; 9.2 is also OK (But I can't

Re: G5 PPC to Mac Pro?

2011-03-03 Thread Ted Treen
From: John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, 3 March, 2011 1:46:26 Subject: G5 PPC to Mac Pro? Hi All I tried to post this to the Mac Pro list but I see no life there for many months, hopefully I don't get kicked outta

Re: G5 PPC to Mac Pro?

2011-03-03 Thread maggell42
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Re: 533MHZ Digital Audio G4 won't boot to OS9.1 retail CD

2011-03-03 Thread smac0031
On Mar 2, 1:53 am, jsmanson jsman...@shaw.ca wrote: I have the above machine with no disks, running 10.4 Panther, with no classic installed.  I have been trying to install classic, and I need OS9.1 (no later) for compatibility with some older hardware.  So I bought the 9.1 retail install CD,

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Al Poulin
On Mar 2, 11:20 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Mar 2, 2011, at 10:13 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: Can this Mac handle 10.5 without a lot of slowdown? The slowdown averages about 15% or so, you can check out the Xbench or   Geekbench archives for exact numbers for your

Junk Mail

2011-03-03 Thread John Carmonne
I'm having trouble training my Apple Mail on all my machines, PPC's to MBP Tiger and Leopard. It seems I get mail I want to become Junk and I highlight it then click the Junk Mail button and the mail goes to the Junk Mail box, however it still comes to my normal mail boxes, I really want this

Buying old Mac Pros

2011-03-03 Thread typopetedog
I bought one of these old Mac Pros end of year. My reason was that I wanted to run Leopard 10.5. If the RAM, GBs, Processor Speed, work for you, and the savings are significant, do it. Mine was only $1995 with 1.5 years of AppleCare left. There is nothing like having 4 hard drives on line, 2 DVD

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread John Carmonne
On Mar 2, 2011, at 8:13 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am giving my G4 flat screen iMac (lamp shade or 1/2 ball) to a teenager. It has had 10.4 on it forever without any problems. But I am thinking that he may want to run 10.5. Can this Mac handle 10.5 without a lot of slowdown? Jane If

Re: MDD problem

2011-03-03 Thread Jörg Duurkoop
Hi Thomas, Thanks for your input. I tried to remove the board, removed the heatsink and the one screw that is supposed to hold the mobo down and tried to slide the board out. It wouldn't budge so I left everything in place and only replaced the PSU and the fans, the main fan I have is a very

Re: Buying old Mac Pros

2011-03-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:29 AM, typopetedog wrote: I bought one of these old Mac Pros end of year. My reason was that I wanted to run Leopard 10.5. Moving to 10.6 on ANY Intel-based mac is a big no-brainer; you get significant performance increases. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona

Re: Junk Mail

2011-03-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:13 AM, John Carmonne wrote: I'm having trouble training my Apple Mail on all my machines, PPC's to MBP Tiger and Leopard. It seems I get mail I want to become Junk and I highlight it then click the Junk Mail button and the mail goes to the Junk Mail box, however it

Re: MDD problem

2011-03-03 Thread Clark Martin
On Mar 3, 2011, at 7:48 AM, Jörg Duurkoop wrote: Hi Thomas, Thanks for your input. I tried to remove the board, removed the heatsink and the one screw that is supposed to hold the mobo down and tried to slide the board out. It wouldn't budge so I left everything in place and only replaced the

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Alex Barnes
On my Quicksilver dual 800 it took actually gave it better Geekbench scores. It took a hit on the graphics performance though it was using a Rage 128. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Al Poulin alfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 2, 11:20 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Mar 2,

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Jane, (Portland, OR)
On Mar 2, 8:22 pm, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Mar 2, 2011, at 8:13 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am giving my G4 flat screen iMac (lamp shade or 1/2 ball) to a teenager. It has had 10.4 on it forever without any problems. But I am thinking that he may want to run 10.5.

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Jane, (Portland, OR)
On Mar 2, 8:20 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Mar 2, 2011, at 10:13 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: Can this Mac handle 10.5 without a lot of slowdown? The slowdown averages about 15% or so, you can check out the Xbench or   Geekbench archives for exact numbers for your

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 3, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: Kris, I am admitting ignorance here. I don't know how to interpret the bench marks and what they mean. They're just a scale for comparison. Sometimes the scale isn't very good, but until there's a better scale, it's what we have. In

Strange ethernet issue (possibly)

2011-03-03 Thread AndyTheMac
I have a wired network of 1 dual 2.5GHZ G5, 1 QS 733, 2 GigE G4s and a BW G3 plus a minolta printer. They all go into a Netgear 8 port gigabit router and then connect to the internet through a Netgear modem. The download speeds form the internet to all the machines except the G5 fluctuate between

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 3, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: Another question I have is the Administrator Account. I planned to leave me as an Administrator, but also add him as one, too. Does it work well to have 2 Admins? I will probably do the tech support for him. It works just fine to have

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Jonas Ulrich
I would keep it at 10.4, however if you want to, you could use Leopard Assist to override the 867MHZ processor limit. -Jonas -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list

Re: Buying old Mac Pros

2011-03-03 Thread Jonas Ulrich
I would have to get a killer deal to make it worth buying an Intel mac. I've got a Hackintosh laptop I use, and a Hackintosh desktop I'm using constantly. They both work great, the laptop only costing me $90, and the desktop was free. I've got two 1TB hard drives in the desktop, set up on a backup

Re: Strange ethernet issue (possibly)

2011-03-03 Thread Dan
At 2:56 PM -0800 3/3/2011, AndyTheMac wrote: wired network 1 dual 2.5GHZ G5, 1 QS 733, 2 GigE G4s and a BW G3 plus a minolta printer. This G5? http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/stats/powermac_g5_2.5_dp.html They all go into a Netgear 8 port gigabit router and then connect to

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Tina K.
On 3/2/11 9:13 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am giving my G4 flat screen iMac (lamp shade or 1/2 ball) to a teenager. It has had 10.4 on it forever without any problems. But I am thinking that he may want to run 10.5. Can this Mac handle 10.5 without a lot of slowdown? Though I am not a

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Tina K.
On 3/2/11 9:13 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am giving my G4 flat screen iMac (lamp shade or 1/2 ball) to a teenager. It has had 10.4 on it forever without any problems. But I am thinking that he may want to run 10.5. Can this Mac handle 10.5 without a lot of slowdown? Though I am not a