On 26 Oct 2005, at 16:46, Konstantinos Theofilis wrote:
Hello list,
my girlfriend decided to take her first steps into the Mac world (I
had nothing to do with that..hehe).
Anyway, as her old wintel laptop is falling to bits, she needs to
speed up her purchase.
The budget is extremely tight at the moment (up to 100£) so a good
candidate is G3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This Powermac will have 512MB of memory and a big enough (>30gb)
hard disk.
Could you please send me your feedback regarding OS X performance
on this machine?
Her primary use will be of course internet, word processing
etc...so her needs are not extreme.
But will OS X be comfortable enough for even for these tasks on the
Powermac?
It should run OSX pretty decently. 10.3.x in particular seems to work
quite nicely on that sort of machine, although earlier versions are
noticeably a bit slower. I haven't tried 10.4.x on a G3 myself yet so
I'm not sure how well it will work. The most important factor with
10.4 seems to be the amount of memory installed, although 512Mb
should be fine.
A step up the Powermac ladder (to a Powermac [EMAIL PROTECTED]) would mean at
least another 50£... and this is not easy at the moment.. :-(
I don't really think that a G4 will be all that much of an
improvement over a G3 at the same clock speed for the sort of things
that you describe. If you're doing any sort of audio / video work
then the G4 would be an improvement.
But if it takes ages to load a text document that includes a couple
of pictures or open 3-4 tabs in Safari then the purchase would be
meaningless
I'd go for it, for that sort of workload it ought to be fine.
Ben.
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