[G4] Re: G4 Digest, Vol 16, Issue 2-Still using OS 9.1 on my G4-400 mhz.

[Roger Harris]

Sy, This path doesn't have a caveat: Put another drive in the G4 and  
put OSX on it since the G4 is a good dual boot mac. You can boot back  
and forth and or make your present drive a Classic. You will only  
need a new drive (that might be used with a newer Mac later) and at  
least 500 (I would go to 1 gig memory) mb of memory. A G4 400MHz runs  
OSX pretty well; Depending on expectations. It will not be snappy  
like OS 9 but the multi-tasking is fantastic and the applications are  
all better. The browsers alone are worth the cost of moving to OSX.

This setup is easier and cheaper than two macs. You can upgrade  
applications to OSX as you can and without stress. makes it easy to  
test apps that may need to replace apps where there isn't an OSX  
upgrade. After a while on OSX you will be wanting to go to OSX  
completely; You can then buy a new mac and leave OS 9 behind. Even my  
most anxious and cautious customers never spend more than a year  
running Classic. When you get a new mac use the old mac for a server  
to do backups.

roger


On Dec 7, 2005, at 7:10 AM, Sy wrote:

>
> It just seems that most of the recommendations have a
> "caveat" like "may", "might", "possibly", "depends
> upon" etc..which leads me to beleive that I may run
> into some problems which would take an inordinate
> amount of time to learn and correct.
>
> I have another idea though.  Inasmuch as it seems that
> SOONER rather than later, I will have to go to OSX.
> What about the idea of buying a separate dual-boot
> computer (on Ebay or elsewhere) and use it for
> Internet access only . This would allow me to get
> familiar with OSX without messing up my OS9 business
> apps and data.
>
> Does that make any sense?  Any thoughts about the pros
> and cons?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sy
>
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