[G4] Yosemite Blue and White G3's

Tony Gamble tgamble180 at rogers.com
Thu May 26 20:04:21 PDT 2005


Tim,
	10.3.8 has been working flawlessly on my old B&W with a G4/500 =
upgrade=20
and only 640Mb RAM.  The daughter of a friend has been using it=20
regularly since it was installed, shortly after the download became=20
available.  Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to install 10.3.9 for=20=

them, so I can't speak for the latest version.  And they've no interest=20=

in paying for Tiger at this time, so I may never know how she will take=20=

it.  Oh, she was a honey of a bee, that B&W, believe you me.  You'll=20
really enjoy yours, taken in the context of its age. :)

Tony

On 26-May-05, at 10:43 PM, Tim Collier wrote:

> I was thinking about that....and since I have some 10.3 and 10.2=20
> install CD's lying around, I thought I might try those instead.  I=20
> really don't care for OS 9.  Can any of you give me feedback on what=20=

> version of 10 runs best on your G3 Blue and Whites?
>
> Tim
> On May 26, 2005, at 6:00 PM, Roger Harris wrote:
>
>> Tim, I have two B&Ws here and am having some trouble getting 10.4 on=20=

>> them. Upgrades are probably the reason; I am certain Apple didn't=20
>> work too hard on getting 10.4 on these older macs.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
>> On May 26, 2005, at 9:10 AM, Tim Collier =F0 wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Yes, thanks.....In our dual 1 gig G4, it only used the original=20
>>> Airport Card and was really slow on exchanging data on our local=20
>>> wireless network.  So, I bought it a PCI card at CompUSA and it=20
>>> works really well.  The dual G4 is now playing much nicer on the=20
>>> network.  So, what I plan to do is buy another one of them.
>>> Plus, I bought the 10.4 family pack which covers installation on 5=20=

>>> computers, so I can install it on the new G3 (it comes without an OS=20=

>>> installed).
>>>
>>> Tim
>>> On May 26, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Daniel Brieck Jr. wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Tim,
>>>>
>>>> If I am not mistaken the first desktop computers to have internal=20=

>>>> Airport wireless cards were the first generation G4's like my G4=20
>>>> Sawtooth AGP graphics version... So no apple airport card for the=20=

>>>> G3 Blue and White, you can always get a PCI 3rd party one...=20
>>>> Another reason to stay away from the G3, the only good thing the G3=20=

>>>> has is a nice case and PCI expansion slots...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Daniel J. Brieck Jr.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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