A good way to speed up OS X on that machine, or any machine with a bus speed of less than 100mhz, is to add an ATA 133 PCI card, with an ATA 133 hard drive. Either that or Fast SCSI II. I cannot stress enough what a huge difference fast hard drives on a fast bus make in running, not only OS X, but any OS. Moving media creates the biggest bottleneck in any system, even the newer systems.
-Antonio On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 04:44 PM, James Alcasid wrote: > Mark, > > More info on my BeigeG3...MacOSX 10.2.4 installed with 768MB of RAM and > a DVD and CDRW on the second IDE channel. The first IDE channel does > not recognize two IDE devices, hence only one HD. I also have a > Newertech G3/500 and a Radeon 7000. > > If you go to crucial.com they will tell you that only certain revisions > of the G3 can accept up to 768MB of RAM. I would go with that advice > and if you intend on buying a BeigeG3, find out the revision of the > motherboard. This information can be found in the Apple System Profiler > in MacOS9. > > Even with all my upgrades it was still not a fast machine for MacOSX > but it did everything that I needed it to do like internet, email, > iTunes, iPhoto, iChat, Yahoo Messenger. iCal was slow and DVD playback > was adequate. I have since moved on to a faster machine but I was > pleased with the speed of the BeigeG3 knowing the fact that it was > never intended or designed to run an intensive OS like MacOSX. > > James > -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
