So, how would these computers feel running panther? G3 IMAC Blueberry 350mhz $180 G3 IMAC Green tower $175
Would they compare to a PIII runing Windows XP? I've always wanted to have a native OSX machine and under $200 I might be able to pull it off but I'm always afraid on how slow these things will be. Anybody tried running panther on these machines? Thanks, Adrian Madrid On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:09:53 -0600, me lyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking of the surplus sale... > > What do they do with the stuff they don't sell? > > I heard that they take it to DI... is that's true, then maybe I want > to camp out at DI for the next few days... lol > > -Rich > > > > > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 06:38:37 -0600, Scott K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > What do you mean "safely"? > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > Scott K > > > > > > > > ____________________ > > 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 > -- Adrian Esteban Madrid [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
