[X Newbies] OS X on old iMac

[Kirk McElhearn]

On 1/16/03 0:28, "Scott Petersen" <petersen at ma.medias.ne.jp> wrote:

> Is anyone using OS X on the very first iMac (the bondi)? According to
> Apple, this is at least theoretically possible. However, is it
> practically possible? Can the speed of the machine handle the burden?

I run it on a 400 MHz iMac, and it is slow. Usable, but it's the graphics
card that slows things up most. I recently got an 800 iBook and the
difference is striking. So, you probably can run it, but you'll be waiting
for a lot of things.


Kirk

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