At 11:37 -0400 on 19/08/01, Amber Rhea wrote:
>I have heard bad things about system 7.5.2 before, but I have never seen it
>not even used it. I wanted to install the minimum, least-bloated system on
>this Powerbook. It is a customer's, and while I made it excrutiatingly clear
>why it needs to be upgraded from 8MB of RAM (it won't even run Netscape
>Gold, or several other programs he installed on it) he's still "thinking
>about it." :P Should I go to 7.5.3 instead and slim it down to be more like
>7.1, a la Gamba? Or should I just stick with 7.5.5 and try to convince him
>that more RAM is the top priority? (Why is it that I seem to get a lot of
>cheap customers...?) ;) Thanks y'all!
Well, the 190 won't run anything earlier than 7.5.2, unfortunately :(
I'd go with 7.6.1 if you can get your hands on it. Most of the
"slimming-down" tricks apply to it as well. My g/f is using 7.6.1 on hers
and she's quite happy with it.
With 8MB RAM, Mac OS 8.1 is entirely out of the question unless you use a
LOT of VM, which will make it slow as well.
I'd put a slimmed-down install of 7.5.x or 7.6.x on there AND convince the
guy to upgrade the RAM past 20MB :)
p
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