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This sounds good -- that only iLife is affected by lack of drivers. So any random PC dvd-rw drive will work with something like Toast then, even without any drivers? What about burning via the Finder, and burning disk images with Disk Utility? Still no drivers required?

Anyone out there who can make a qualified guess? I have been offered a Mac compatible graphic card that will make the old Powermac take advantage of Quartz Extreme. Is it worth paying any money for this when I don't intend to game, just for ordinary use?

Regarding the old Powermac G4s that came stock with the Ati Rage graphic card. What difference will it make to put a Quartz Extreme enabled card in such a machine? I'm not talking about games or video editing or such, just average desktop use - web, Finder, music & video playback and general...

Sounds great, I'm looking forward to try the linux thing. Now for something perhaps a little more challenging. I would like to make a slipstreamed version of Windows with the latest service pack and updates and burn this to a bootable cd. I can extract the boot image file from the original...

I have a Windows laptop without a cd burner. Now I'm thinking about downloading some linux OS or such and see how that works on the machine. Will the Mac be able to burn a cd so that it is fully supported to boot up on the pc, for example a linux live cd? If so, what software do you recommend...

Thanks folks, you've been most helpful. It seems like my best option is to find OS 9 on cd and then combine with a separate install of OS X. I don't have Classic on my machine at all right now. I also consider upgrading to Tiger. I know that new machines sold today don't come with the Classic...

Thanks for the input folks, some good info there. I should perhaps have mentioned that I did read the Wikipedia article on Classic before I posted. Click here to read. You can edit it if you see some mistakes or want to add information! The article says there are three ways to launch...

Hi. I'm unfamiliar with the classic environment in OS X. I understand that it's possible to use it together with OS X applications side by side and that the menu bar changes to the old style when an OS 9 application has focus. What I wish to know is if it's possible to make the classic...