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Originally Posted by SatCure Realistically, the minimum for OSX is a G3 500MHz with 256MB memory, 10GB Hard Drive and OS10.3 (Panther) installed. Anything less and you are going to be running very slowly. With a G4 you can run Panther or Tiger with only a 350MHz processor, although I'd recommend 400MHz as the sensible minimum if you have a choice. Tiger needs lots of memory. |
I strongly disagree with that statement...
Firstly, two of my four Mac OS X systems are running Mac OS X 10.2.8 and are great systems. In a lot of ways 10.2 is better than 10.3 and later (I still use 10.2 more than 10.3 or 10.4). There is nothing realistic about suggesting 10.3 as a minimum.
Secondly, two of my four Mac OS X systems (and not the same two as above) are using G3 processors below 500 MHz (350 and 400 MHz). And I have clients who are using machines with systems running at 300 MHz.
As I suggested in my earlier post, if you are unable to get a faster video card, then turning to a G4 can help. But if you have at least an ATI Rage 128 with 8 MB of VRAM (which both my Pismo G3/400 and iMac G3/350 have) you should have no problem running Mac OS X... and watching DVDs (both of those systems are used to watch DVDs in Mac OS X).
And lastly... 10 GB is not a realistic minimum. A custom install of Mac OS X (with additional languages and printer drivers not installed) requires about 1.5 GB. I've seen Mac OS X used comfortably on a 6 GB drive and had used this PowerBook running Mac OS X from Aug 2002 to Nov 2005 on an 8 GB hard drive.
The only sensible recommendation in that post was memory... the more the better.