On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 22:16, John Noll wrote: > I'm actually running Panther (10.3.5) on a Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and > White) and it works great! 300 MHz processor, 256 MB RAM, 4MB ATI > graphics card. When I first installed Panther, the display was only > grey and white. Later, Apple released a fix that applied specifically > to my model to fix the problem. I'm assuming they therefore support > installing OS X on a G3 machine. Anyway, It's obviously not terribly > fast, but its really not that slow either. Works great for me.
Yes G3 is supported by panther, but only the models with a usb port. > > What do you mean "safely"? He means without catching fire, I presume... Haha. Anyway. Yeah G3 works fine, as long as you have the usb ports. Michael > > On Oct 27, 2004, at 6:44 PM, Scott K wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> Tomorrow I am planning on picking up a G3 at the surplus sale. What > >> processor > >> speed will run OS X comfortably? I am fairly new to the MAC > >> architecture and any > >> input would be helpful. > >> > >> > > "G3 desktop beige $50 > > > > G3 tower beige $60 > > > > G3 IMAC Blueberry 233mhz $140 > > > > G3 IMAC Blueberry 350mhz $180 > > > > G3 IMAC Green tower $175 > > > > G4 Mac Silver tower $325" > > > > Only a G4 will really run OS X safely. The G3's are supposed to be > > supported sometimes, but that follows the assumption that they are on > > a standard bus as opposed to Apple's NUbus architecture that was used > > for a time. Such a first generation silver G4 could range in speed > > from 400 Mhz to 1 gig, though I don't know how many of the faster ones > > they'll be ready to dump. I know the school of Music has gotten rid of > > some G4's, but we haven't dumped any in the school of Education. > > Something has to be pretty old and dead before we let go of it. > > > > $325 is pretty expensive when you consider that they are selling them > > side by side with Pentium II >=350 @ $40, and Pentium III @ $75-$100. > > > > now for the cheaper ones, you might be able to set them up in a > > cluster running a mac linux version, but it's been a while since I saw > > a mention of that, and it wouldn't be particularly effective beyond > > the experience of learning how to set one up. > > > > <" ********** GETTING YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ATTRIBUTES ********** You may > > get your current subscription attributes at any time by sending the > > following request to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > query SURPLUS > > > > or send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and request to be deleted from the > > list. /"> > > > > If you still didn't get an email, it's tomorrow (Thursday) morning at > > 8AM to 10AM. " B77 is the old UVSC tech building located between > > Canyon Rd and University Ave. The best way in is on University Ave > > next to the Malt shop/Car Wash, at about 1350 N University." > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
