[P1] upgrade original clamshell?

[Collin Moore]

I am getting a external usb hard drive for my clamshell it says it includes
a usb 2.0 cable will it work with my ibook with the standard usb??


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Lockhart" <blockhart1 at comcast.net>
To: "iBook List" <ibook at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: [P1] upgrade original clamshell?


>
> 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
>
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