In the future, consider partitioning your HD out. You can maintain a
blank partition for several purposes- including the purpose of using
it to install newer system software. This may help if you try to go
to OS X, but at this point on your powermac you are already at the
pinnacle of OS 9. In other words, there is no farther for you to go
unless you make the jump to OS X.
On your powerbook, however, it's a different story. Still,
everything I've read says that 8.6 is superior to 8.5 in all
respects. i know that when I upgraded from 8.5 to 8.6 on my 1400 it
went off without a hitch, no problems at all. I dunno if it has the
newer version of quicktime or not, but I assume not since there is
not mention of quicktime changes in the 8.6 update. Might as well DL
the quicktime update as well, as you are doing. Just the same,
though, once you update, look in your control panels, open the
quicktime control panel and you should see the quicktime version you
are currently running in there.
As for my hardware, keep in mind that my iMacs and powermac date back
to as far as early 1999, so it's not that so different as you might
think.
Brian
On Jun 14, 2005, at 12:52 PM, Yersinia wrote:
Brian writes,
<There. you see what I keep telling you?>
HAHAHAHAHA, I know. Which was why I warned everyone "you better sit
down"
when I posted about having done this upgrade. ;-) Anyway....
<Sometimes OS upgrades aren't that great, but that's no reason not
to at
least try them out.>
When they work out as well as this one did, absolutely yes, it's
worth it
to have done it. However, I've had enough experiments go wrong, too,
where not only did the whatever-it-was didn't work (either as
expected,
or at all), but left me with major messes on my hands. I know, this is
part of life for people who experiment with their computers. I can
deal
with the "this isn't as good as I thought it would be," and "darn
it, it
didn't work" aspects if that's ALL there is to it, but the big
screwups,
no way. Yes, 9.2.2 IS much better than 9.1, but 9.1 was still doing
what
I needed to do. My Macs are not toys to me and as a rule I don't
consider
it "playtime" or "fun" to have to do things to their OS's or insides
unless there's an actual problem that requires it. Quite the opposite,
actually. So my reason for being a stick in the mud when it comes to
trying something out is the fact that I'm just not much of a risk-
taker.
<As for 10.3, I've run it on two iMac 400 mHz, two iBooks G4s, and now
a B&W 400 mHz. In all cases it's run very well, better than previous
versions. Eventually I plan to have enough disks/partitions to run
all versions of OS X on my B&W, so for now I just have overall
impressions. Also, I'm currently running only at 384 megs on the
B&W. For quite some time one of the iMacs went along happily enough
at 256 megs of RAM. 256 will do the job, but I wouldn't try running
alot of programs at once. The basics, however, like email, web, word
processor should do fine.>
The processors you mention here are all considerably ahead of mine
too.
I'm sure that also helps. I have a 266MHz, remember? ;-)
~Yersinia.
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