[HM] Re: Beige G3 Tower and 10.xx

[Adam Bass]

OK cool, so you should definitely have enough RAM to upgrade to Jaguar 
if you want. Of course feel free to post here with any OS X 
questions/problems you have. :)

Adam



On Nov 9, 2003, at 10:51 PM, Jane Sprando wrote:

> 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
>>>
>
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