Re: Upgrading the OS on an iMac700

2008-11-08 Thread Marty Levine
Marty didn't you have to trick the OS X.5 software to install on less than a 867 processor? I did not need any tricks other than installing Leopard on an external drive attached to a faster iBook G4. Target mode would work too. Marty --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: Upgrading the OS on an iMac700

2008-11-08 Thread aechmea
On Nov 8, 4:57 pm, Kris Tilford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 12:25 AM, aechmea [EMAIL PROTECTED]   wrote: Sorry Jim and others, I wasnt clear enough.  My iMac is actually a G4 - the LCD on a stick in the half snowball.  I have a feeling that   10.5 will work

Re: Upgrading the OS on an iMac700

2008-11-08 Thread insightinmind
On Nov 8, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Marty Levine wrote: Marty didn't you have to trick the OS X.5 software to install on less than a 867 processor? I did not need any tricks other than installing Leopard on an external drive attached to a faster iBook G4. Target mode would work too. Marty

Re: Upgrading the OS on an iMac700

2008-11-08 Thread Jim Scott
On Nov 7, 2008, at 9:25 PM, aechmea wrote: Sorry Jim and others, I wasnt clear enough. My iMac is actually a G4 - the LCD on a stick in the half snowball. I have a feeling that 10.5 will work since it's a G4. But will 10.5 actually work nicely or just plod along. Assuming that

Re: Upgrading the OS on an iMac700

2008-11-08 Thread Paul
If you just want to render web pages better, you could try Firefox. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs.

Re: Upgrading the OS on an iMac700

2008-11-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 7, 2008, at 10:57 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: I just posted results of downgrading a 1.67 GHz G4 PowerBook from 10.5.5 to 10.4.11. There was about a 20% speed increase across the board for 10.4.11. And your results are quite anomalous...I noticed almost no difference between 10.4 and

Re: Upgrading the OS on an iMac700

2008-11-08 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 8, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: And your results are quite anomalous.. I don't think they're anomalous according to benchmarks with archived results for literally thousands of users. You can run the benchmarks yourself. If you get different results, post them like I did.

Upgrading the OS on an iMac700

2008-11-07 Thread Franklin
Currently I run 10.3.9 on a 15iMac700/640ram. The machine is primarily used for email and internet browsing and some games of the era. Safari 1.3.2 that comes with 10.3 will no longer render some pages properly (eg Google maps, Hotmail, some eBay, some banking sites) I have a commercial OSX

Re: Upgrading the OS on an iMac700

2008-11-07 Thread Jim Scott
On Nov 7, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Franklin wrote: Currently I run 10.3.9 on a 15iMac700/640ram. The machine is primarily used for email and internet browsing and some games of the era. Safari 1.3.2 that comes with 10.3 will no longer render some pages properly (eg Google maps, Hotmail, some

Re: Upgrading the OS on an iMac700

2008-11-07 Thread aechmea
Sorry Jim and others, I wasnt clear enough. My iMac is actually a G4 - the LCD on a stick in the half snowball. I have a feeling that 10.5 will work since it's a G4. But will 10.5 actually work nicely or just plod along. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

Re: Upgrading the OS on an iMac700

2008-11-07 Thread Marty Levine
Im running 10.5 on an eMac 700 right now and normaly on a 450mhz sawtooth. Its not a speed demon but its useable. Tiger might be faster though. Marty On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 12:25 AM, aechmea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry Jim and others, I wasnt clear enough. My iMac is actually a G4 -

Re: Upgrading the OS on an iMac700

2008-11-07 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 12:25 AM, aechmea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry Jim and others, I wasnt clear enough. My iMac is actually a G4 - the LCD on a stick in the half snowball. I have a feeling that 10.5 will work since it's a G4. But will 10.5 actually work nicely or just plod