I am running OS X 10.3.8 on a (formerly) 8600/250 as I'm tapping this
in. KICKS A**!! (I say formerly 'cuz I *did* get the Sonnet G4/800.
Also running Tempo Trio, Radeon 7000/32, and a Maxtor 80G IDE hard
drive. I'm also pumped up to 800 meg of memory.) It's been fast,
stable and reliable for the past 3-mos; not a crash to report. I have
iLife '05 loaded (sans Garage Band. Just don't need it....), and burn
dvd's on a Pioneer DVR-S606 (the encased version of their DVR-106). The
audio and video ports work, though I have to run OS 9.2.2 to input my
old non-digital stuff because it seems the programs I'm using written
for OS X assume one does not have these analog inputs. Ditto for my old
SCSI scanner.
I won't say it went on easy. However, most of my problems involved a
learning curve for me. And heat problems with the CPU. (After two bum
fans from Sonnet, I scavanged a couple of well-used but still running
CPU fans from some discarded Pentium-based machines, and all my crashing
ended.) Now that I know what to do and how to do it, it would be snap,
relatively, should I ever have to do it again. My only real issue is I
can't get the dvd burner to be recognized on Tempo Trio's USB 2.0 port.
Firewire? No problem.
Now, I'm seriously considering the jump to Tiger....
Mark in Westminster
Wayne wrote:
From: "Wayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Panther on 8600?
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:49:08 -0400
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear Unsupported:
I am wondering if anyone has had any success installing and running OS 10.3
on a Power Mac 8600/250?
Please excuse the text snag, Roland (but you said what I was thinking)
Wayne ;)
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