Re: Power Mac 7100/66

[Gerald Wilson]

Well, sort of. But with a Sonnet G3 card in, everything goes a lot 
quicker, so it becomes more usable.

But I wouldn't recommend spending money on such an enhancement without 
some very good reason. The future lies with OS X and open source UNIX, 
and I think that's where your money should go.

GWW

On 18 Feb 2004, at 05:30, Roger Harris wrote:

Peter is correct about needing PCI. Another thing: The fastest video 
available for the 7100 (Prism GT or Thunder 24) is hardly usable for 
web browsing in OS 8x and 9x. A 7100 could never be usable for OSX on 
video performance alone. It would be more than slow, it would be 
unusable by any measure.

Roger



Peter da Silva wrote:

I have a PowerMac 7100/66. I am thinking about a Sonnet or Newertech 
card
upgrade. After doing so, can I install OS X? Are there any 
hack/experiences
you can enlighten me with? Thanks in advance.
No.
OS X requires at least a PCI bus, even with XPostFacto. It also needs 
a 604e
(10.1) or G3 (10.2 or later) to boot from, so the Sonnet Crescendo 
7200 which
boots on the 7200's 601 and uses it as a kind of I/O processor won't 
work.
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