Stefan and others: At the risk of getting *very* OT, I'd like to get the community's opinion on the minimum hardware required to run OS X 10.2 or later.
Reason: Wonderful Wife got me an iPod for Christmas and only then did I find out that I don't have the H/W and OS to talk to it (need FireWire ports, none of my machines have that, and iTunes takes OSX, none of my machines support it, even with XPostFacto). So I've been looking around and see Cubes for $800-900 (eBay) at 450MHz, all the way to some good deals on single G5s at 1.8MHz for $1700. In my last job I had a PowerBook G4 @ 867MHz running OS 10.2, but when company went bankrupt I had to give it back. Even at 867MHz I saw the spinning beach ball a few more times than I would have liked. Since new job hasn't started yet, I need to keep $ expenditures to a minimum, so getting most bang for buck is critical. Recommendations? (Please not Wintel, I am not that self-destructive.) Alternatively, good sites or info sources? Peter -- Peter Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Stefan Jeglinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "SIMS Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:50:33 -0500 > To: "SIMS Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Move to OS X > >>> If I would take the step to OS X, >> >> Is that possible with the 9500? I thought Apple didn't support >> anything before late G3's? > > Xpostfacto will work. > > I spent a long time with this on a 9500 with a G4/800 upgrade card. > My recommendation for normal work is: don't do it. You won't be > satisfied. The memory bandwidth kills it, and the quartz imaging > system strains to the max any video you can put in this box. Also see > my comment at the end of this message. > [snip] >>> What minimum requirement would you think is necessary for the new >>> machine? I could use a G3/300; is this fast enough? The web sites are >>> not high traffic, and also mail is not high-volume. >> >> For a webserver, the G3/300 should be fine as long as you load it up >> with RAM and don't try to make it do duty as a personal machine as >> well. I wouldn't run X on anything less than a G4/450 (i.e. a Cube >> or equivalent) for interactive use, but webserving is not very >> demanding. > > Exactly, and from my experience, I claim a G4/800 is not an efficient > use of resources, as servers are not computationally demanding. > > Now, my 9500/G4/800 is running Linux/PPC. If you ever need a good > demo of how much OSX eyecandy kills an otherwise fine OS, this is it. > You can do everything you want to do with Linux, but the learning > curve may not be to your taste. And, on another similar Linux/PPC > box, I have been running SIMS quite robustly with Mac-on-Linux (MOL) > for years. > > > Stefan Jeglinski > ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
