For Tray Loading iMacs, it might be better to go to Ubuntu 9.04 for powerpc.
All CRT iMacs have slow USB 1.1 ports, so some ideas here won't work as they need USB2.0 I have an Early 2001 G3/600 SE Graphite running OS 10.4.11 1GB Ram 80GB 7200 rpm HDD. It has run Ubuntu 9.04 fine, as has my 1999 PowerBook G3/333 Lombard, which has to have XpostFacto to run OS 10.4.11. UMMV J.C. On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Christopher Satterfield < christopher1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a G3/400 iMac, slot loading also, and it feels quite slow to me > running OS 10.2, I just got Tiger disks so I'll run an upgrade sometime > soon, whenever I feel like digging it out of the garage. Mine has a gig of > ram, but then again I also never got to reinstall the OS when I got it so > the original 20 gig drive has like 2 gigs free. > > I will tell you though that speed is a matter of opinion. For my mac I > typically use a Dual 2 GHz G5 with 4 gigs ram, and that makes my desktop > running Linux feel slow (2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo with 3 gigs ram). > > As for airport, I also noticed that all the adapters seemed to be in China > also. About 2 years ago I got my iMac and I wanted wireless also, but > didn't feel like buying one from China, so I just used an old Windows > laptop with a bad screen (backlight was out) and ran that using Internet > Connection Sharing and a crossover cable for internet, cheap and works, > even more so when you pull the screen completely to save power. > > And for ram, mixing is fine, I originally had it running with a 512 and a > 128 before I got a 2nd 512 meg chip, both of different speeds and it worked > fine. Just make sure you're not using 66 MHz ram, only 100 and 133 MHz ram. > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a > group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
