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.We had real issues installing Panther on Lombard model powerbook G3's (without firwire but with USB). Yes it ran fine for a little bit, but then they would kernel panic over low power and other issues right on boot. The grey and white bug is another concern as well as some other proprietary Hard drive interfaces and the like. When you go to a surplus sale, you don't really have the time to look up the quirks of a particular model and find out how well it will run OSX, especially the beige g3's which are cheaper. So safety here would be a question about good investment and acceptable performance from 5+ year old hardware.
What do you mean "safely"?
Scott K
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