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.
I'm not sure why that PB showed you the ball, but I have virtually no spinning balls on a 450MHz Cube and Panther, and had few with Jaguar. The one significant enhancement of my cube is that it has 768MB RAM. Like any BSD-based Unix, OS X really wants a lot of memory but will function in a degraded fashion when starved for it. If that PB had less than 256MB, that might explain the problems.
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.)
If you are willing to spend $800, the Cube is not the best deal. I wouldn't go any slower than a 450MHz G4, and you can get faster in an eMac for less than a Cube.
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Bill Cole
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