Beige G3 Tower and 10.xx

[Jack Honeycutt]

At 07:35 PM 11/9/2003, you wrote:

>I was recently told that my beige G3 Tower, 266 Mhrtz,  cannot run 10.xx at
>all. is that true?
>
>I am currently running 9.2.2.

Jane....

You can run up to Jaguar 10.2.8.  Which, until about a week or so ago, was 
the latest Mac OS.  You may even be able to move to Panther  (which might 
be a tad faster) with a little work.  I am running the Sonnet Tempo 
Trio  PCI Firewire/USB card in my old Power Mac.  You might be able to run 
a Sonnet USB card and a software patch (or  not) and take your machine all 
the way up to Panther.  I would read the info at Apple's web site on 
Panther requirements, then go to Sonnet's web site to see about a low cost 
USB card for your PCI bus if you are in the Panther mood.  Panther may,  or 
may not run on your Mac.  But for sure, you can move to Jaguar.

I *would* max out the memory in your G3.  You can buy memory on ebay (some 
even sell it with a money back guarantee).  As you probably know, Apple 
branded memory is very expensive.

How much memory do you have in your  Mac?  Is the max  2 GB's?  If so, 
spend the money to upgrade your RAM, then upgrade to Jaguar.

Now that Panther is out, you can buy Jaguar CD's on ebay.  Load it, then do 
a auto update to 10.2.8.

jack in Portland  oregon