Thanks Mark [in Westminster]!
Though you made things run easily on your 8600/800 G4, I am hard pressed to
invest $800 worth of upgrades to get that old 50Mhz system bus Mac. Thanks
for teh confidence build - it must have been fun.
Wayne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Unsupported OS X" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 12:34 AM
Subject: Re: OS X on an 8600
I am running OS X 10.3.8 on a (formerly) 8600/250 as I'm tapping this in.
KICKS A**!! (I say formerly 'cuz I *did* get the Sonnet G4/800. Also
running Tempo Trio, Radeon 7000/32, and a Maxtor 80G IDE hard drive. I'm
also pumped up to 800 meg of memory.) It's been fast, stable and reliable
for the past 3-mos; not a crash to report. I have iLife '05 loaded (sans
Garage Band. Just don't need it....), and burn dvd's on a Pioneer DVR-S606
(the encased version of their DVR-106). The audio and video ports work,
though I have to run OS 9.2.2 to input my old non-digital stuff because it
seems the programs I'm using written for OS X assume one does not have
these analog inputs. Ditto for my old SCSI scanner.
I won't say it went on easy. However, most of my problems involved a
learning curve for me. And heat problems with the CPU. (After two bum
fans from Sonnet, I scavanged a couple of well-used but still running CPU
fans from some discarded Pentium-based machines, and all my crashing
ended.) Now that I know what to do and how to do it, it would be snap,
relatively, should I ever have to do it again. My only real issue is I
can't get the dvd burner to be recognized on Tempo Trio's USB 2.0 port.
Firewire? No problem.
Now, I'm seriously considering the jump to Tiger....
Mark in Westminster
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