OS X will never run on a C600. Even if you could somehow force it, 144
megs of RAM is not nearly enough. On top of that, 10.2 needs a G3 minimum.
10.1.5 would be the best you could do.
Sorry to correct you, Dan, but my Apus 3000/c600 (with 300 MHz G3 ZIF upgrade) is the living counter argument against your claim: it is running 10.2.5 fine. The speed of the finder is comparable to that of 8.1 on a PPC with 100 MHz (my PB 5300c) (only with no crashes and indeed fewer (!) spinning wheels (especially in Safari compared to Explorer or icab)). Memory is clearly a problem, so I take care that I do not have open too many applications at the same time. Still, listening to itunes and browsing with Safari, for example, is easily possible; in such a case, swap memory is accessed extensively, of course.
However, you are certainly right: with the original processor there is little point in running OS X.
In regard to the PC vs. Mac thread, I would like to point out to a fact I remembering having read some time ago: Apple is among the companies with the highest research input. That has to come in elsewhere again, so I see little point in calling for Macs which are as cheap as PCs.
The strategy Jerry outlined is probably best: buy last year's computers and upgrade those.
Nils
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