On Jul 20, 2005, at 5:29 PM, Sean Brackeen wrote:
Hi Again Listers,
One of my friends has a friend at work that gave him an iMac and I
wanted to get it ready for him. I have hardly any experience with OS
9&8. So here is what I would like help doing.
1. Create a few accounts for him his wife and kids and have them able
to be accessed during startup instead of just going straight on
2. Even though it is off of my topic I was wondering if it would be
better for them to keep a newer but about 2 year old Gateway machine
on Windows XP I have already fixed up or fix up the iMac and take back
my windows machine?
3. I am thinking about uograding the machine to OS 9 but I don't know
how much memory it needs, the machine doesn't have much memory I think
only 64 MB of something
4.Is there any hope like if I get the extra memory I could out OSX on
it to make use of the machine? Another friend of mine says it must be
a slot loading machine. True or not?
Hope you can help,
Sean Brackeen
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Hi Sean,
First, this is a Tray loading iMac, right?
1) Multi-users requires Mac OS 9, or an older copy of At Ease. I
recommend Mac OS 9.
2) I would say let them keep the iMac after you bring it up to shape.
Especially if they are inexperienced PC users. You would want them to
get the full experience and not have to worry about viruses and etc.
3) 64MB of RAM would be OK, but more would be recommended. See
crucial.com or similar sites for advice.
4) Any iMac can handle up to Mac OS X 10.3.9, Panther. The newest,
10.4, Tiger, requires a slot loading machine. If you are going to go
with Mac OS X, 10.3 is the best version for older G3s... even better
than 10.2. I would recommend 192MB or more for OS X.
Keep in mind, you would need some decent hard drive space - I'd say at
least 10 GB.
Kyle-
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