Most of my every day apps are still OS9, so I don't run my business stuff on X yet. Mostly internet. My OSX machine is also a G3/266. I'm running the latest upgrade (10.2x?) For the most part it has been fine, but there have been times when I wonder about it. There have been some issues with drives that have caused major problems. I don't know if they start as timing issues or what, but I've had to reinstall it twice, once very early and once just a bit ago. Let me tell you, it sure is good having a son who will soon be off to Johns Hopkins on a full ride for a doctorate in operating systems in the house. I guess there are other ways to set permissions back after a re-install, but he did it from the terminal window in bunches. I simply don't know enough about X or UNIX to have done it, and I thought I used to be pretty good on a Mac.Currently, I'm running 10.0.4 on a G3/266 desktop with 192MB RAM and a 40GB hard disk. I was given 10.0.3 from a friend at a computer show. MacOS 9.2.2 and MacOS X are on the same partition (for now).
To me, if the major application you use is X Ready, go for
it. I don't do too much on my G3 - mainly mail and
browsing. Occasionally I use CorelDRAW 8. I now have a
copy of CorelDRAW 11, which requires 10.1.
OWC has the 10.1 upgrade for $10, and the upgrade to Jaguar for $70 (prior installation of MacOS X required). I just recieved the 10.1 upgrade, and will try it out tonight.
Good luck with your MacOS X adventure! Mine's only a few days, but I like it!
Brian
The last drive issue was the corruption of my boot disk after installing a Kensington mouse driver. It took hours just to get the machine to boot from anything after that. I also got a used USB Zip100 that it doen't seem to like much either, but part of that may be all the SCSI SCA drives I have that go to sleep and take a while to spin back up. I think one big drive works better than a bunch of smaller ones, partly for that reason, and partly because all the auto updates like to be stored on the boot drive in the APPS Folder and a small drive fills up quickly with upgrades and old versions which like to coexist at least briefly on the same drive.
Steve
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