> From: BigMomma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:54:42 -0500 > Hi All. > I received Jaguar for Christmas but am scared to try installing it. I > have OSX 10.1.5 on my S900 on one partition of a 40 gig hard drive on > an UltraTek PCI card. The drive is partitioned into four parts. Should > I try to put it on one of the partitions with OS 9.1 or should it go > on the partition with OSX10.1.5? OS10.1.5 sometimes seems rather slow. > I do have an XLR8 G3 500 upgrade but was wondering if it would make > any difference to get a G4 upgrade. I cannot afford to buy a new > machine but could maybe talk myself into an upgrade. Also my Lexmark > printer keeps giving error messages so I can't print from 10.1.5. I > have no trouble printing from 9.1. Any words of wisdom would be > appreciated. Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and will have a > wonderful year ahead. > Many Thanks > Jacqueline Stewart
Well to start with I think you will be pleased with Jaguar once you have it up and running. It is clearly and noticeably faster then older versions of OSX. OS 10.1.5 was really the first usable version of OSX and I've used nearly every version starting with the development version 2 which was way before the public beta. Jaguar let me go to OSX as my everyday Mac OS. Printing works well and for the first time with my printer in OSX! There is free software called Gimp print that is a UNIX/ Linux port to Mac OSX and it is well supported with new versions arriving regularly. It can be found at: http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3 You likely won't need Gimp print if you have a USB printer that has OSX drivers but it supports most printers from the major printer makers. It also works with many PC printers that otherwise couldn't be used with a MAC! It comes with lots of info on how to set it up. Mac Serial printers that have a Parallel port for PC use can use the parallel port with an USB to Parallel cable. You also don't need an expensive Epson or HP cable. I bought a cheap PC cable for $19.95 and it works great. There is at least one cable I think the Keystone cable that doesn't seem to work. If that is a VST ultra ATA PCi card you will need to keep OSX in the first 8Gb's of the drive. I don't think you can have both OSX 10.1.5 and Jaguar on the same partition and choice which to boot. I would do a clean install of Jaguar and hope for the best! My big issue with Jaguar was 3 of my ram chips wouldn't run with it. Which was odd as they were fine with 10.1.5 and older...OSX is I think best kept separate from OS 9.x. It makes regular maintenance much easier in the long run. I've been running an XLR8 G3 500 mhz carrier card over clocked at 550mhz for apox 1 1/2 years with no issues with the CPU. I use Powerlogix CacheX software. There is no real reason to get a G4 over the G3 you have unless you are making major use of Photo shop on a regular basis or if you were getting the Sonnet G4 800mhz card. A few other apps like itunes and Quicktime make use of the G4 but Photoshop is where the difference shows up and even then you need to be using Photoshop for PRO work IMHO Ask questions here and join the LOWEND MAC Unsupported OSX forum. Best of Luck Will S -- 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
