10.2 For First Generation PowerBook G4

[georgelien]

I bought my PowerBook G4/500 at the end of the February in 2000, so I can have a Mac and a portable let me run Mac OS X. I am finally satisfied with the new OS after the release of 10.1.5, now I have a decision to make:

1) To stay with 10.1.5.

Or

2) To move to 10.2.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Please let me know if you are a owner of the first generation PowerBook G4.

The following is the spec for my PowerBook:

500MHz PowerPC 7410 (G4)
1 MB Backside Cache
100 MHz System Bus
256 MB PC100 SDRAM
8MB Video RAM
20GB Ultra ATA/66 Hard Drive

!!! Mac Rules !!!
!!! HAVE FUN !!!

[Pauldunlop]

No question about it mate. Move to 10.2. I'm running 10.2 on the 400Mhz TiBook, and it works beautifully. Go for it now. Your system will run even better than before, and with the new Energy Saving preferences, you can get a lot more out of your battery now too.

[georgelien]

Tempted.
Can you still run Classic?

[Pauldunlop]

God yeah of course ya can. Its got everything 10.1 has except less bugs, and more speed, and loads more features ! hehe

But with 10.2, the chance you'll need/want to run classic is even lower. Plus, just incase you do need to run it, Classic now boots in about half the time it did in 10.1

[SuperMatt]

Well, I have a G4/500 Powerbook and I just installed OS 10.2 on it. I had a minor problem during install. The system restarted itself and then installed again. I think it's because the CD didn't go into the slot-loader correctly the first time. So far, 10.2 is nice. Windows open like they did in OS 9 (zoom open) and I've already been using spring-loaded folders. The finder works a lot better. Junk mail in the mail program picks up stuff pretty well. I haven't figured out how to change the highlighting color in Mail.app yet though. I have it set to a certain color system-wide, but in Mail.app it defaults to an ugly brown which I can't seem to change. Anybody notice that? It does let me enable other messages from the same thread to appear in any color I choose...

All in all, I think it is a worthy upgrade. I don't think quartz extreme does anything on this model powerbook, but stuff runs a little faster anyway. Startup is faster.

Matthew

[jarinteractive]

I just installed 10.2 on my PowerBook
(first generation, 500Mhz) and I'm enjoying it. I have purple highlighting in mail and when I change the color in system preferences it changes in mail, too. I suggest that you get 10.2.

-JARinteractive

[SuperMatt]

Originally posted by jarinteractive
I just installed 10.2 on my PowerBook
(first generation, 500Mhz) and I'm enjoying it. I have purple highlighting in mail and when I change the color in system preferences it changes in mail, too. I suggest that you get 10.2.

-JARinteractive

Actually, it was working fine BEFORE I installed 10.2 - it's now that it turned brown and won't change to anything else.

[ADDENDUM!!!]
I tried quitting mail after a reboot and changing the settings in the general system preferences to green. Now mail is highlighting in green. HOWEVER, it is a much darker green than anything else that I highlight elsewhere on the system. Odd, huh?

[cujopoto]

upgrade for sure, but first do this:
PARTITION that 20GIG drive!

make a 15GIG and 5GIG

intsall old trusty OS9 on the 5 and 10.2 on the 15

that's what i've done on my Ti500 and i can always boot in 9 if i need to, which comes in handy more often than one would think. as a matter o' fact, i just had to boot in 9 an hour ago to uninstall DAVE from my OSX partition. the Jag upgrade didn't like it.

have fun