On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Loren Faeth <lfa...@leadingchange.com>wrote:
> Dan, > > I have a charcoal case G4 (Next year after the blue/white Mac) with IDE > drives (and a SCSI Card) What version of OS 10 would be best for it? I > have 10.4 and I was told the beige G3 were best with 10.2. It still has OS > 9, but we never use it. With OS10, I think we'd use it. I always wanted to > put a version of OS10 server on it, but never could justify the price of > used Server OS on fleabay when i already had Server 2003 more or less free. > The university junk sale is selling these for $125 or less now, so I > shoulda sold it several years ago. > > TIA If it is literally the G4 that came out the year after the G3, then 10.4 (Tiger) is the most current, and best, OS X to run on it. 10.5 (Leopard) will not run on it without fooling it as the OS makes a check to verify the G4 is a 867Mhz or faster processor. If you've upgraded the processor to faster than 867Mhz you might be able to run Leopard without any other changes. However, even with an upgraded 1Ghz processor in the old Yikes! G4 I would just stick with Tiger. Tiger is extremely stable, very fast, and is what I'm running on two of my four macs. Leopard has some cool toys, but on the new Mini, I haven't even used any of them yet. So that's all they are right now, toys. My 2 cents, EdB -- "I'm a Night Elf Mohawk!" - Mr. T. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090421/7c2c8b9a/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
