Re: Gmail & Gbooks - (was: Re: Ron - Re: THANK YOU ALL! - Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question)

2005-12-09 Thread Caleb Cupples
I'm sure you'll be in good company on those lists ! I'm on all the lists. I'd rather be politically incorrect any day. I do agree with you. Back on topic, I'm using Gmail with the POP3 turned on, with Mail on my Lombard, and I find it's a lot faster than the webmail, plus it has th

Re: THANK YOU ALL! - Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question

2005-12-09 Thread BGbank
> Krow Magnum at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/9/05 4:33 PM > > The advise I always give is spend as much as you can afford. I can't > imagine 800MHz as only being "adequate" for Tiger. My 466 Clam does > just fine with surfing, email and ebaying. My 1.5GHz G4 Powerbook > doesn't do those things t

Re: Gmail & Gbooks - (was: Re: Ron - Re: THANK YOU ALL! - Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question)

2005-12-09 Thread Krow Magnum
On 12/9/05, BGbank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Van, when I first heard of gmail sometime back I got excited about it and > tried to sign up but at the time it said I didn't have the > correct-something... maybe it was browser, can't remember now. I'm using > the highest IE there is for OS9,

Gmail & Gbooks - (was: Re: Ron - Re: THANK YOU ALL! - Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question)

2005-12-09 Thread BGbank
> Van Snyder at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/9/05 2:43 PM > >> snip < I've got a yahoo email list> and I just can't find emails anymore - >> I've reached the boggled-mind limit> lol). > > ah, the beauty of Gmail. I would never argue against the merits of Tiger, > but if the email is the one th

Re: Gene - Re: THANK YOU ALL! - Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question

2005-12-09 Thread Krow Magnum
On 12/9/05, BGbank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you! The G4-800mhz they are selling has 640mb which the specs say is > the max for that model. Of course the G3-300mhz clamshell I'm using now has > the bare MINImum, 128. > > >> Will Tiger function okay on a G3/500mhz ibook? > >> The Tiger p

Re: Ron - Re: THANK YOU ALL! - Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question

2005-12-09 Thread Van Snyder
> snip < I've got a yahoo email list > and I just can't find emails anymore - I've reached the boggled-mind limit, > lol). ah, the beauty of Gmail. I would never argue against the merits of Tiger, but if the email is the one thing pushing you over the edge, you might want to consider moving to

Re: THANK YOU ALL! - Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question

2005-12-09 Thread BGbank
> Clark Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/9/05 1:39 PM > > At 10:33 AM -0800 12/9/05, Gene Osburn wrote: >>> What's the most important factor on an ibook for it to work the best/faster? >> >> Max RAM will have the most salutory effect - I'd say *AT LEAST* 512 >> MB is needed, 1 GB or more i

Ron - Re: THANK YOU ALL! - Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question

2005-12-09 Thread BGbank
>>Krow Magnum at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/9/05 1:21 PM >> Everything like MHz, RAM and even HD speed makes a difference in how >> the OS will run. For the average user hard drive size only makes a >> difference if it gets loaded too full, but mostly it just limits you >> to how many apps you

Gene - Re: THANK YOU ALL! - Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question

2005-12-09 Thread BGbank
> Gene Osburn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/9/05 1:33 PM > >> What's the most important factor on an ibook for it to work the >>best/faster? > > Max RAM will have the most salutory effect - I'd say *AT LEAST* 512 MB > is needed, 1 GB or more is even better. Thank you! The G4-800mhz they are s

Re: THANK YOU ALL! - Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question

2005-12-09 Thread Clark Martin
At 10:33 AM -0800 12/9/05, Gene Osburn wrote: >What's the most important factor on an ibook for it to work the best/faster? Max RAM will have the most salutory effect - I'd say *AT LEAST* 512 MB is needed, 1 GB or more is even better. I concur. I used my iBook G4 for the first week with jus

Re: THANK YOU ALL! - Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question

2005-12-09 Thread Gene Osburn
>What's the most important factor on an ibook for it to work the best/faster? Max RAM will have the most salutory effect - I'd say *AT LEAST* 512 MB is needed, 1 GB or more is even better. >Will Tiger function okay on a G3/500mhz ibook? >The Tiger page at apple.com says Tiger will work on any

Re: THANK YOU ALL! - Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question

2005-12-09 Thread Krow Magnum
On 12/9/05, BGbank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> OS 9 on a G4 is like driving a Cadillac with a Chevette motor in it. > >> Ron > > heehee, good one! ;-) > What's the most important factor on an ibook for it to work the best/faster? > Ram size, or HD size, or mhz/ghz size? > Will Tiger function

Re: THANK YOU ALL! - Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question

2005-12-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 9, 2005, at 10:47 AM, Howard Katz wrote: Not that it would help Gail's situation, but I'm curious: Could a mac without an OS on it's hard drive be started up in target mode? And if it could, would doing a "full backup" with a program like SuperDuper be able to put a working OS, as well

Re: THANK YOU ALL! - Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question

2005-12-09 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 09/12/05 12:47, "Howard Katz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not that it would help Gail's situation, but I'm curious: Could a mac > without an OS on it's hard drive be started up in target mode? And if > it could, would doing a "full backup" with a program like SuperDuper > be able to put a wo

Re: THANK YOU ALL! - Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question

2005-12-09 Thread Howard Katz
Not that it would help Gail's situation, but I'm curious: Could a mac without an OS on it's hard drive be started up in target mode? And if it could, would doing a "full backup" with a program like SuperDuper be able to put a working OS, as well as other files, on the one with the blank drive, fr

THANK YOU ALL! - Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question

2005-12-09 Thread BGbank
>> Dylan McDermond at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/9/05 10:46 AM >> G4 iBooks will require Panther or better. It will not boot into any >> version of 9. Just buy the retail CD's for Panther or DVD for Tiger, >> boot with the "C" key held down. Nothing more to it than that. >> -Dylan THANK YOU Dyl

Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question

2005-12-09 Thread Krow Magnum
On 12/9/05, Laurent Daudelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 09/12/05 05:23, BGbank at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Greetings folks, This may be a no-brainer Q... but I don't know... > > > > I'm thinking of buying from a certain vendor a G4 ibook that comes without > > an OS. My Q is, How can yo

Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question

2005-12-09 Thread Dylan McDermond
On Dec 9, 2005, at 2:23 AM, BGbank wrote: Greetings folks, This may be a no-brainer Q... but I don't know... I'm thinking of buying from a certain vendor a G4 ibook that comes without an OS. My Q is, How can you install an OS if it doesn't already have one? G4 iBooks will require Panthe

Re: G4-iBook w/o OS - Question

2005-12-09 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 09/12/05 05:23, BGbank at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings folks, This may be a no-brainer Q... but I don't know... > > I'm thinking of buying from a certain vendor a G4 ibook that comes without > an OS. My Q is, How can you install an OS if it doesn't already have one? > > I have OS 9.1

G4-iBook w/o OS - Question

2005-12-09 Thread BGbank
Greetings folks, This may be a no-brainer Q... but I don't know... I'm thinking of buying from a certain vendor a G4 ibook that comes without an OS. My Q is, How can you install an OS if it doesn't already have one? I have OS 9.1 CDs which came with this current G3 ibook (300mhz, 6gig, 128 ram).