On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 07:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 12/17/2002 11:45:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> How did you get Jaguar on a rev A clamshell iBook? The Apple >> site says it needs 3 gig on the hard drive and that's the entire hard >> drive. I have such an iBook, love it and would love to get >> OS X on it. > > Hi Terry! > I had my machine upgraded with an 80 gig harddrive. I had it done > by www.WegenerMedia.com [I had sent them my iBook to repair the > touchpad cable I tore trying to reseat a loose phone modem jack...and > I had them install the larger drive at the same time.] [Good prices, > great people, I highly recommend them.] > OS X needs ram to run smoothly. I would recommend you install a > 256 chip in your machine. The Apple website says that is the max a > Rev A will take (but that was written back before huge ram chips). I > have ordered a special low power 512 chip to try installing in my > Rev A clamshell. [I will post the results and specs after it > arrives.] >
Right now, I'm on an iMac 233 with a 4GB hard drive and 160MB of RAM, which I've been using awaiting my iBook. It belongs to my girlfriend and works surprisingly well! Right now, the hard drive has 374MB available. She has some bigger things installed like "The Sims" and some MP3's. She also never deleted any of the applications OS X installs that she doesn't use. You may be able to at least give OS X a trial run with the 3.2GB drive. It is slow at times with only 160MB, but I ran my B&W G3 with 128MB for a couple weeks after I bought it while waiting for RAM to come in the mail. I have found OS X on lesser hardware to be a pretty acceptable experience. My next project is getting my sister over to Jag. She has a Blueberry iBook 300 with 5GB and 64MB. Her Christmas gift from me is going to be some memory and a hard disk. I can't wait to see her face when she pulls computer components out of her gift :-) GmG -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.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/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
