>I am considering getting a G3 card and loading OS X on my S900 250 w/288 >MB RAM, a 4GB SCSI and 9.1 GB UW SCSI and Twin Turbo Video Card. I >currently have an Apple Laserwriter 360 connected to the printer port. I >don't play any games, major Apps are: > >1. Nisus Writer >2. Wordperfect >3. PowerMail >4. Hogwasher >5. Icab >6. Internet Explorer >7. Microsoft Excel9 >8. Misc. Financial Software >9. Encore >I am wondering, how much trouble it will be to load OS X, and will I have >to change printers, video, etec. The big questions is will I see any >improvements/benifits over OS 9.1 which runs great on my machine at this >time. If the general concensus is that there are not great benefits to OS >X, I will probably gfet the G3 anyway and continue to run OS 9.1. > >Thanks for any feedback >
Having just recently achieved success at moving an upgraded S900 to OSX, I would basically say "sure, go ahead, BUT it may not go particularly smoothly." One thing to remember is that you can have (actually, you *need*) both OS9.1 and OSX on the same machine, and toggle between them on restarts. AND you can run 9.1 (aka Classic) within OSX. So it's not as much of an either-or question. One thing that happened to me was that the original CD wouldn't work in OSX. And since you have to boot in OSX from the CD in order to install OSX, I was stuck. Fortunately, one of my other machines was willing to donate its CD temporarily, and that one worked. Termination on the internal scsi chain was also a problem for me. The original drives are long gone, and the drives I have in there won't terminate the chain properly. As it turns out, the original CD drive in my machine has a termination jumper - so it's still in the machine, just can't be used. Definitely read http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto . You're not going to be able to do it at all without XPostFacto or similar. I can't tell you a thing about printers or most of the software you're talking about - mine's being put to use as a web server, and I avoid printing questions like the plague, lest I get drawn in to knowing too much about them and having to do tech support on them too ;-) <rant> My basic philosophy about software and OS upgrading is that if you don't have a pressing need to upgrade, then you may have better things to do with your time/money. If there's a speed problem, a bug fix, a new feature that you really need/want or some other compelling reason, then it's time to upgrade. If everything is working fine as is, "it ain't broke, don't fix it". I'm always amazed by the perceived need to be on the bleeding edge - among my clients are a 70+ year old with an iBook and an iMac, and all she really does is write text in Word and check email. That can be done on most anything! Meantime, I'm serving 60 or so websites (over a million hits a month), running mail and list services, ecommerce, search engines, etc - far more demanding stuff - on a bunch of old machines: PowerComputing, Umax, and 68xxx Apple boxes, running on OS 7.6.1 through OS 10.1.5. I can put 5 very capable servers online for the cost of her two. I'm moving to OSX because of compelling need - two clients who want to use PHP on their websites, which only became available with 10.1.x. They'll be ex-clients if I don't provide the features they require. But now that I'm there, I really like (most of) it. </rant> -- Bill Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Green Homes For Sale/Lease: http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/ Green Building Pro Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com/ Sustainable Bldg Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/ Sustainable Bldg Bookstore: http://www.greenbuilder.com/bookstore International Strawbale Registry: http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
