Re: iMac G3 hard drives

2009-12-17 Thread Clark Martin
Nestamicky wrote: > On 12/17/09 1:50 PM, Elliott Price wrote: >> 10.4 has some significant changes, especially support issues and >> networking improvements. It runs surprisingly well on slow machines. > And I agree with this...see Tiger on my Sawtooth and you'd think it's an > Intel machine, but

Re: iMac G3 hard drives

2009-12-17 Thread Christian Wacker
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Nestamicky wrote: > On 12/17/09 7:49 AM, Owen Strawn wrote: >> I thought about setting one of the iMacs up and gifting it to a relative, >> but they seem to all have recent laptops (PCs though). > > Welcome to the sad universal truth...now you and I have machines

Re: iMac G3 hard drives

2009-12-17 Thread Nestamicky
On 12/17/09 1:50 PM, Elliott Price wrote: > 10.4 has some significant changes, especially support issues and > networking improvements. It runs surprisingly well on slow machines. And I agree with this...see Tiger on my Sawtooth and you'd think it's an Intel machine, but wait until I go to Youtube

Re: iMac G3 hard drives

2009-12-17 Thread Nestamicky
On 12/17/09 7:49 AM, Owen Strawn wrote: > I thought about setting one of the iMacs up and gifting it to a relative, but > they seem to all have recent laptops (PCs though). Welcome to the sad universal truth...now you and I have machines we know is good for very basic stuff, which is what most o

Re: iMac G3 hard drives

2009-12-17 Thread Elliott Price
10.4 has some significant changes, especially support issues and networking improvements. It runs surprisingly well on slow machines. -Elliott Price Mac Computer Repair - Santa Barbara Graphic Design - Artwork Setup Websites - Low Cost Custom Websites On Dec 17, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Clar

Re: iMac G3 hard drives

2009-12-17 Thread Clark Martin
Owen Strawn wrote: > I thought about setting one of the iMacs up and gifting it to a relative, but > they seem to all have recent laptops (PCs though). > > I have been using Panther on the G3s - never tried Tiger. I skipped 10.2 and > 10.4. I did notice 10.3 ran much faster on the 266 than 10.1

Re: iMac G3 hard drives

2009-12-17 Thread Owen Strawn
I thought about setting one of the iMacs up and gifting it to a relative, but they seem to all have recent laptops (PCs though). I have been using Panther on the G3s - never tried Tiger. I skipped 10.2 and 10.4. I did notice 10.3 ran much faster on the 266 than 10.1 did. Do you think I'm missin