Re: wallstreet upgrades

[Ben Dyer]

There was a CD-RW drive manufactured for the Wallstreet, but it's 
impossible to find these days. Unlike the Lombard and Pismo, you can't 
just replace the drive in the expansion bay module with a standard 
low-profile optical drive. At this stage, your only option is to get an 
external device.

OS X runs quite well on the 292 and 300MHz Wallstreets, and acceptably 
on the 266MHz. Anything slower and you'll be frustrated. Jaguar is the 
last OS officially supported by Apple, but 10.3 can be installed with 
the aid of XPostFacto. 384MB RAM is really the minimum for OS X. Less 
than that and things like launching applications and switching between 
open applications become unacceptably slow. Some people have had 
problems using 512MB RAM under 10.3, but I've never run into it on 
either of my PowerBooks. For maximum performance, set your monitor to 
thousands of colours mode. To speed QT movie playback, there's a 
modification you can make to the video drivers, but I recommend staying 
away from that unless it's really necessary for you.

A 10GB hard disk is enough to install a stripped-down version of 
Panther and still have enough room left over for a decent set of 
programs and documents. Panther will take up about 1-1.5GB over the top 
of your existing OS 9 installation (probably about 500MB of system and 
applications).

Cheers,
Ben
On 23 Oct 2004, at 01:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I recently purchased a Powerbook G3 wallstreet. I was wondering about 
two
possible upgrades. First, what are my options for upgrading to a CDRW. 
Is there
an internal drive that was made for the wallstreet, OEM or thirdparty? 
I know I
could probably buy a firewire upgrade card and buy an external drive 
but I
would like to avoid that if I could. Also, what are my options for 
running OSX
on my wallstreet. The system has 384 MB Ram and a 10 GB HD. Any info 
would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Coleman Ford
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