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Originally Posted by Qfxz I have acccess to this laptop: powerbook G3 series; 14.1TFT/233MHz-512K/32MB/2GB HD/4MB video/CD/modem---it is the old barebones black one, has OS 9 on it. I am okay with wiping out OS 9. I have 10.2, 10.3 install CD's and 10.4 install DVD. Which will install? Any of these? Can the RAM be upgraded? How about airport for wireless connections?
I know with firewire I could disk target mode, this has no firewire or I would try transferring 10.2 or 10.3 to it.
Any suggestions other than dumping it?
What is a reasonable value for this machine? |
The highest supported operating system for that system is 10.2.8. You have 32 MB of RAM... so at this point you are
not going to be running any version of Mac OS X (and really 32 MB isn't enough to run Mac OS 9 very well either).
That system can be upgraded to 512 MB of RAM (which is what this one that I use has). In which case, you could install Mac OS X, but you wouldn't have much room for anything else with a 2 GB hard drive. You can upgrade the hard drive (I have a 40 GB drive in this system) but you'll have to partition any drive over 8 GB in size... your system will only work with Mac OS X installed on an 8 GB (or smaller) volume at the beginning of the drive.
On top of all that, 233 MHz is a bit slow for Mac OS X. It'll work, but a faster processor would be helpful. Because you can't upgrade the VRAM or graphics processor (ATI Rage Lite) on this PowerBook, the next best thing is to hand off some of that work to Altivec on a G4 processor. My PowerBook has a G4 at 500 MHz with 1 MB of L2 cache, which has helped the GUI feel snappier.
Additionally, I have a second hard drive in my system (20 GB drive in the battery expansion bay), a CDRW drive (in the CD-ROM expansion bay) and a USB 2.0 card in one of the PCMCIA slots. And I use the serial port to sync with my Newton... Just to give you an idea what can be done with one of these.
As for what that system is worth as it stands right now... about $175-250. You usually don't find them with that low an amount of memory (64 MB would make it a much better Mac OS 8/9 system).