Greetings all,
I currently own a PM 9600 with a Sonnet G3 500 and 640MB RAM, ATI Rage Pro Video 128 Card, two 9 GB IBM UW SCSI drives on an ATTO SCSI card, and the standard 4 GB drive on the internal SCSI bus. I currently run OS 9.2.2 and I would appreciate any feedback about several issues related to moving to 10.2.2:
1. Is this machine adequate for OS 10.2 ), and will it give me performance comparable to what I have with OS 9.2.2?
Yes it's adequate, no it's not likely to give you performance equal to 9.2.2, with some exceptions.
2. I am currently a subscriber to the Xpostfacto tech forum and I do read the post relative to my machine. There does appear to be some issues that you have to live with such as no sound control for external speakers.
Yes.
3. I use Icab, and Mozilla and mozilla as my web browser and Powermail as my mail client. Has anyone had any problems with these on an unsupported machine with 10.2?
Mozilla works better on OSX than any othe platform I've used it on.
4. I have an apple laserwriter select 360, will I lose the use of this printer in 10.2?
If the LW Select is a quickdraw, not a postscript printer and connects only via the printer port, it won't work. OSX only sees printers vioa the network or the USB port.
5. I have a verizon ADSL modem ( 640k) will it function under 10.2?
With no problem.
6. Is OS 10.2 more or less reliable than 9.2.2 on these ( 9600) machines?
More reliable, so long as your hardware is up to snuff; OSX is more sensitive to bad RAM.
7. Are there any gotcha issues that I show be aware of for converting to 10.2?
Immediately after installing OSX get something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] COntroller running, it's slow as molasses until you do. (And this is one reason the install takes so long)
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