On Tuesday, October 22, 2002 7:26 PM, Pastor Mac asked, For the other S/J OS X users, are older ATI (8 MB Exclaim 3D Rage Pro) cards considered kryptonite with an OS X install?
Pax, Pastor Mac To which I reply . . . Pax, my S900 Sonnet G4-450 has an older ATI 8 MB card and X installed OK. I fact, it has installed several times OK ;-)> And Howie wrote on Tuesday, October 22, 2002 4:59 PM: Keep in mind that the whole exercise can be not worth the bother if a slow processor is involved. An older 604, or a slow G3, will likely not provide a satisfactory OS X experience. A G3/300 or better would be my recommendation, and at least 192 MB RAM too, preferably much more. -Howie to which I respond . . . Howie, I've got a G4 450 upgraded S900 with 1GB of RAM, and a SIIG ATA133 card with a 60GB 7200 RPM Seagate drive and I'm not particularly impressed with the speed of Jaguar. In fairness to Jaguar, I haven't put much effort into the X experience yet (other things keep getting in the way). BTAIM, I think I will be running MacOS 9 for quite a while yet. And that's not because I don't like unix or have no 'command line' knowledge, I've run unix derivatives since the mid 80's on everything from Tandy 16's to Sun Sparc's as well as DOS, OS2, and Windows PCs (not to mention VAX). I have a Win98 box at home that gets turned on a couple of times a year to make quick and dirty CD Jewel Case labels. It's because X is not yet 'Mac like'. In fact I'm not sure X ever will be 'Mac like'. I got my first Fat Mac 512k in 1985. I hated it. No command line, no keyboard shortcuts, no included BASIC, the StyleWriter was a piece of crap, no parallel interface, the list goes on and on. But by the time I bought my LC things had gotten better. System 7 was coming out (6.7 was pretty good), folders were really folders, hard drives were getting bigger and cheaper, Word 5.1 and Excel 2.2 were stable, life was good. In other words, the slogan was true, 'The computer for the rest of us' (with money, I add.) For the most part its been getting better ever since. But I don't need a server, I've got 2 Sparc 20's and two multi-gig-a-hurts PC 2k boxes at work. The Sparcs are about to become Blades, and eventually the 2k boxes will become XP boxes. But for PERSONAL computing I still like my Mac. I like stacking my windows, smart aliases, the OS knows (usually) what to use to open files, doesn't need paths or environment variables, the list goes on and on. Yeah, I'll have an X box, but I'll USE my Mac. -- 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:supermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:supermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:supermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
