[P1] upgrade original clamshell?

[Bill Lockhart]

On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 12:22  AM, Peter Nacken wrote:

> on 5/6/03 12:37 AM, Jill Whenmouth at jillwhenmouth at mac.com wrote:
>
>> Michael S. Roels wrote
>>> I have one just like that running OS X. "
>>
>> Really???You are doing this on an original clamshell?  300mhz???
>> honest to goodness, I can truly put OSX on my original300 mzh
>> clamshell???!!!!!
>> Wow!
>> I had been under the impression that 300mhz was too slow... likewise 
>> that 3
>> gigs was too small, especially if you wanted to have anything but OSX 
>> on it?
>> What size harddrive do you have? and how much memory??
>> Have others of you put OSX on a 300mhz clamshell?  any problems? 
>> warnings?
>>

A friend of mine has a 300mhz blueberry iBook with OS 10.2.4 installed.
he upped the memory to 288 megs and he had a 20 gig HD installed.
Its no speed demon and the dock "genie" effect is jerky but he uses it 
as his main computer.
He uses it mainly for word processing and web browsing. Oh yes. he 
loves playing the Sims on it.

After buying myself a new 800mhz  iBook in January, I gave my son my 
KeyLime iBook running at 366mhz with 320 megs of RAM.
It still has the original 10 gig HD in it and he is running OS 10.2.5. 
His main use is word processing, instant messaging and his growing MP3 
collection.

So yes, you can run OS 10 on the clamshells but I would recommend 
putting as much RAM in it as you can afford and also getting a bigger 
HD.
It also depends on what your computing needs are.
Although I wouldn't recommend it, but when I had the KeyLime iBook, I 
used iMovie to edit my family videos.

Bill