Sorry Ryan, I'm using the XLR8 Carrier and OWC Mercury Zif 450 and its been great ... 1gig of Ram) ... Will S, I always "Learn" something from your posts ... indeed the Macfixit and OWC forums always a good read, I think the 10.3.5 "upgrade" is where I'm headed and I think given the "RAM" requirements this maybe the "end" for us. I seem to recall a very snappy machine with 10.3.5. Regards Phillip
Oh! Off topic, but I have to ask all listers, "A Sub-$500 Mac (Headless)" This would suit me very well ... Happy New Year! -----Original Message----- From: SuperMacs List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Will S Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:04 AM To: SuperMacs List Subject: Re: [SM] Panther on S900 > From: "Phillip Meza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:34:14 -0500 > > Yes, successful indeed, but have been experiencing odd behavior with > the > 10.3.7 upgrade, probably because of my system config ... Regards, > Phillip Phillip, Your not the only one having issues with 10.3.7 ! (notice I refuse to call it an upgrade ;-) Apple rushed out 10.3.7 because of complains about bugs in 10.3.6 from newer machine owners. Regretfully it's way more buggy then 10.3.6 and most people are complaining about it. It was driving me nuts . I ended up doing an archive and fresh install of 10.3 from the cd's and then went straight to 10.3.7 full update combo install. Things are better but not except-able. Web browsers all crash several times a day or more. I use Camino & Firefox and they both crash and sometimes require a forced re-start. Safari is more stable but crashes from time to time. Using the "Activity Monitor" located in the utility folder shows apps are using way more RAM then in the past . So even with large amounts of RAM the OS is running out of RAM . Camino & Firefox are both using around 50 MB of RAM and apox 350 MB of Virtual RAM for a total of 400MB of RAM ! Safari uses apox half of that which may be the reason it's more stable. If a fix isn't found soon I will try going back to 10.3.4 or 10.3.5 . Both were good I don't remember which was better. 10.3, 10.3.1 and 10.3.2 were also buggy and had major issues with SCSI drives. There are a lot of nice things about Panther but it has never been as stable as Jaguar though 10.3.4 & 5 were close. It is easy to think it's our old machines and some things are likely issues because of that. Take a look at macfixit.com and you will see no one is happy with 10.3.7 . > -----Original Message----- > On Behalf Of Ryan > Chang > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 7:45 PM > Hi, I was wondering if anyone has successfully installed Panther on an > S900 with a 450 MHz G4 processor upgrade. Thanks > > -Ryan Yes indeed! I started with OSX on my J700 604e 233 MHz CPU way back when with Developer version 3 or was it 4 . Nearly every version has been better then the one that came before it. Apple has really screwed up with 10.3.7 . Moved up to G3 300 MHz running at 350MHz and then a G500 @ 550 MHz for 2 years or so. last June I got a 550 Mhz G4 in a Carrier card and it runs at 533 MHz with Panther. You need lots of RAM and I can't recommend SCSI hard drives for Panther. It can be done but there are issues even with a new machine SCSI didn't work well until 10.3. 4 or 5 . Best of luck Will S -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com --------------------------------------------------------------- -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
