Wow, I had no idea people were of such significanly differing oppionons on all of this.
So far what I have been able to dig up that seems significantly substantive is that X.2 and probably X.3 CAN be installed on 603 powered machines. XpostFacto specifically says so but also points out problems like RAM limitations and video issues. This is borne out by computers like the 2400 PowerBook and similar units that run X.2 but slowly. The XpostFacto page indicates that some people have had success with X.3 on the 6400 and 6500 series but significant issues like video, SCSI and Memory Limits exist. All of that said, I have high hopes for the TAM. It came with built in ATI Rage II support (albeit only 2 Meg. of ram, virtually the same as Rev. A iMac's Rage IIc) and the TAM has both its CD and HD on ATA/IDE busses instead of using the SCSI. That bodes well I think. Lastly, the 128 Meg. RAM limitation shouldn't be too bad of a problem. I've successfully made 10.1 run on 32 Meg. of RAM and with 128, so long as not more than 2 or 3 Applications are running at the same time, things should still work, carefully, with 128 Meg. Hell, I've even got a reasonably recent issue 40 Gig. 2.5 inch HD in that unit (TAM used Laptop IDE/ATA drives). I'm even pretty certan that the 800 x 600 LCD Video should work OK. I'll have to see what it takes to get X to address and use the 500 MHz G3 L2 Cache Card upgrade and I've got very little hope of support for the inboard TV/FM Radio cards but that's Ok, I can switch back to 9 if I want to watch TV or better yet, I can fire up my Mac TV which sits across the kitchen and is used for almost nothing else (yep, 32 MHz of the most expensive 68030 performance ever made. it's Black though, cool). Thanks everyone who had input. I'll try to get this all together and post it. There's only 11,701 TAM units in the entire world, so few that even the Cube way outclasses us but still, those of us who have these super fine sterios (that happen to be cool computers also) love them dearly. Bye for now, Victor Nazarian In a message dated 6/6/04 3:39:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >From: Sven Radke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: OS X.3.4 on my 20th Ann. Mac >Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 03:54:04 +0200 >On 04.06.2004, at 18:20, Tom Tubman wrote: >>> I don't know TAMs, but if it's PCI it should run OSX up through >>> Jaguar, but not Panther or beyond, because it must find USB. >> Actually PCI is not sufficient to run OS X. There are many PCI >> machines that cannot run it like the 7200, the 4400 and some of their >> clones. And the lack of USB does not prevent OS 10.3.4 from running >> on the many PowerSurge machines out there like my 7600 G4/400. >I have a pumped up umax c500 what is a 6400 clone, with max ram (144 >MB, what a shame...), a g3/300 with 1mb cache, 2 graphic cards, usb, >ethernet and everything, cost me a hell of $$ but I kicked it... >u can't even run a linux on this box as the mesh scsi controller is not >supported - what avoids booting from the scsi cd drive >cheers, >Sven -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
