Re: OS 9.1 on 5300?

You can get away with it if you have enough RAM, but it's not recommended. Your performance will leave a lot of be desired. If you ask me, anything above 8.1 on the 5300 is pushing it. > I'm currently running OS 8.6 on my 5300. Would I be best to stay with that > or upgrade to 9.1? I'm not certain

Re: Best OS for a 5300

> Specifically, will I > really get a noticable benefit (i.e. when running IE 5.1) if I back-off to > OS8.1? Yes, you will, but you would get more of a benefit from not using IE 5.1 and switching to a browser that doesn't have such a huge overhead on system resources. A few people have mentioned t

Re: PB 1400 + USB?

> Is there a PC card that will allow me to have a USB port on a PB 1400? No, it's not possible to support USB on a 1400. USB is a 32-bit only protocol, which means to support USB on a PC Card, the card must be CardBus-capable. Unfortunately, the hacks to support CardBus on the 2400, 3400 and 3500

Re: System 8

> Will system 8 work on the 1400 as is? Yes, the PB 1400 is supported all the way up to OS 9.1. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook

Re: Powerbook 5300 ????'s

> 3 can I use a compact flash card in a pcmcia card as virtual ram for the > system It generally works, although there are reports of incompatibilities with certain flash memory cards, and it's really not that much faster than virtual memory, anyway. The bottleneck becomes the 16-bit PC Card bus i

Re: 5300 OS installation

maybe it would be better to stick with 7.5 even > though that system is supposed to be unstable on the 5300. Yes, definitely. Even 8.1 would probably run like a slug with that little RAM. System 7.5.5 is probably best if you're going to be staying at System 7 for a while. I have an 8-meg RAM exp

Re: Powerbook 5300 stuff

How much RAM is on that 5300? I found 8.1 to be sluggish with 24 megs, but when I bumped the machine up to 40 and replaced the slow stock HD with a faster one, OS 8.1 suddenly became more responsive than any version of System 7 I'd tried. Not to mention it is far more stable. > 8.1 takes longer to

Re: Powerbook 5300 stuff

You should upgrade to 8.1 on the 5300 regardless. It's definitely more stable than 8.0, although either is 10 times better then 7.5.x. And lke was said before, make sure you have Shared Library Manager PPC installed. You also might want to make sure you have the latest hard disk drivers installed

Re: 5300 OS installation

<> If the SCSI port is good, it works with no problem at all. When I upgraded the hard drive in my 5300, I booted the machine from an OS 8 CD through an external Apple 300i drive. I had to use a newer version of Drive Setup than was on the CD to initialize the hard drive, but once I did, I was abl

Re: Want to sell PC laptop

> Is Claw - Hammer just a codename? I was under the impression it was the > actual name of the processor. Just a codename. Clawhammer is the consumer version of AMD's 64-bit x86 processor. It will be released under the brand name "Athlon 64" in September. The higher-performance server version, c

Re: 5300c os, surfing, e-mail word proc...

I wouldn't even think of running any 7.xx versions on it unless I just had a very small amount of RAM installed. They're all buggy and written almost entirely in 680x0 code, which just makes it dog-slow on the cacheless 100 MHz 603e installed in a standard 5300. If you have about 24 MB or more, you

Re: Help with 5300 upgrade

Thanks to everyone that replied. Turned out it was some sort of issue with the RAM card, once I pulled it out, I was able to boot OS 8 from the CD and format the new drive, and I am installing it now. I'll try to get the RAM to work right once the install is done. These 5300s are the most temperam

Help with 5300 upgrade

I've never tried any upgrades on a Mac laptop before and have run into a snag with this one... It's a PB 5300c, which I opened up and upgraded with a new 6 GB hard drive and a LapisColor video card, and at the same time swapped out the RAM expansion card to increase the memory from 24 MB to 40 MB.

Re: Best OS for a 5300cs

Depends on how much RAM you have in it. If you're at 32 megs or higher, definitely OS 8.1. The 5300 is far more stable under it than any version of 7.x.x, or at least it has been to me. The key to speed under OS 8 is to turn off any extensions you don't need. It was a real slug under 8.1 when I ins

Re: mklinux on pb 1400

You won't get OSX on a 1400 no matter what you try. X requires a PCI bus architecture, and the 1400 is NuBus-based. But there are any number of Linux distros that will work. Just about any PPC Linux should run on it. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by and... Small Dog Elec

Re: 5300cs Ram for sale

A 56 MB RAM card for the 5300 series does exist. It's fairly rare, but I've seen them before. With that, you can upgrade the 5300 to the maximum 64 MB. Here's one for sale on fleabay right now: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2037022497 (Not my auction, just an example...) --