Adam, thanks for the quick reply. I just checked and I have 288 MB of built in RAM. jane on 11/9/03 7:44 PM, Adam Bass at abasscube at mac.com wrote: > Well, it depends. Your beige G3 tower should be able to run on Jaguar > (10.2), as long as you have enough RAM. You're pretty much required to > have at least 128 MB of RAM, and 256 MB of RAM is highly recommended > for decent performance. > > Apple says that the latest version, OS X Panther (10.3) cannot run on a > computer without built-in USB, which excludes your beige G3. So Jaguar > will be the last version of Mac OS you will be able to run on your > beige G3 without upgrading, but if you have the RAM, I'd definitely > recommend getting Jaguar; it's much nicer than OS 9. :) > > Adam > > > On Nov 9, 2003, at 10:35 PM, Jane Sprando 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 >>