[iBook] OSX or not on clamshell G3 366

Mike Nicewonger twmaster at twmaster.com
Tue Mar 29 13:06:02 PST 2005


> > I have a brand new and never installed bought copy of OSX 10.0. Should I
> > install OSX on my clamshell graphite G3 366, 192 ram, 6 gigs? It's now
> > running on 9.2. Would OSX slow down every process? Is there enough RAM?
Is
> > it worth installing it anyway? The iBook is mostly used for Word,
Explorer,
> > Entourage and some light Photoshop use? OSX apps I have are: MS Office
and
> > FM Pro 6.
>
> Should you install OSX? Yes, by all means. But should it be OSX 10.0? No
> way. It was far too buggy. Can you get your hands on OSX 10.1? Or better
> yet, if you have to pay, get 10.2 (Jaguar) or 10.3 (Panther).

I'll chime in here that I have an original Tangerine iBook with 10.3.8
installed. Works well enough for a 300 MHz CPU machine. Memory made all the
difference in the world though
>
> And yes, more ram would make a  huge difference.

As I said the same above. I have 288 MB in my iBook.

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Mike N




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