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March 29th, 2005, 12:35 PM
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 Blue and White G3 - OSX or OS9?
I got ahold of a blue and white G3 tower recently. 300mhz, 6.4gb, 64mb of ram. Sucks right? Well Im putting 512mb of ram in there and a 20gb hard drive. So, until I can afford a CPU upgrade, do you think it's best to go with OS X or OS9? I have OS X on CD, OS9 I do not. I feel like OSX might be a little sluggish, soooo....?
__________________ -drunkmac 350mhz B&W G3 Tower - 1gbRAM - 80gb 12" AlBook G4 1ghz -512mb - 20gb  - Superdrive+120gb LaCie External Drive +Motorola A630 +Apple Airport Extreme Network +Canon 3.2mp Cybershot A400 Lime iPod Mini with iTrip & Sony MDR-V700 phones. Currently Running Mac OS X Tiger 10.4   |
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March 29th, 2005, 01:58 PM
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Also, I need to upgrade to a dvd drive or burner. Whats a good internal and/or external (firewire 400) burner that has a good price?
__________________ -drunkmac 350mhz B&W G3 Tower - 1gbRAM - 80gb 12" AlBook G4 1ghz -512mb - 20gb - Superdrive+120gb LaCie External Drive +Motorola A630 +Apple Airport Extreme Network +Canon 3.2mp Cybershot A400 Lime iPod Mini with iTrip & Sony MDR-V700 phones. Currently Running Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 |
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March 29th, 2005, 02:19 PM
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March 29th, 2005, 02:29 PM
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Also, G3s don't allow booting off of firewire devices and I'm sure that includes dvd/cd drives so you'll have to go down the internal route.
__________________ eMac : G4 700mHz - 512Mb - 40Gb - CD-RW - 10.3.9 Power Macintosh G3 : 350Mhz - 896Mb - 6Gb+14Gb - CD-Rom - 10.3.9 iMac : G3 233Mhz - 160Mb - 6Gb - CD-Rom - 10.3.5 PowerBook (Firewire) : G3 500MHz - 12Gb - 384Mb - DVD - 10.4.2 20Gb 4G iPod May be a nice new iMac G5... |
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March 29th, 2005, 03:09 PM
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March 29th, 2005, 06:27 PM
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I had a B&W G3 that I upgraded to X a while back and even though it wasn't as snappy as what I have now, it got the job done (and I even used it quiet heavily-> games, compiling, etc). It did have a problem with an external CD burner I had. Could've been the burner, but I would recomend going internal with any type of burner.
__________________ Powerbook G4 17"-1.33 Ghz, 1GB, 80GB, OS 10.4.7.  B&W G3, 192 MB, 36GB, OS 10.4.2. iPod 5 GB -> Died. series of older Macs going all the way back to the still working SE. |
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March 29th, 2005, 06:42 PM
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I use one daily at work, they are pretty solid on OS X, the only thing that annoys me is the slow video card.
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