osX on a imac 333mhz?

PowermacG4_450

PowermacG4_450

OS X Jaguar
Im looking to install osX on an imac, and need detailed help/info please.

imac has 96 RAM, so I know it must be at least 128. is 128 really enuf?

Next, this imac has a ati rage pro graphics card, so macosX 10.2 WONT work.

Will version 10.1 work? 10.1.5?

I think 10.1.5 will work if i upgrade the memory first.

am I right?

let me know.

Also, before installing 10.1, I beleive 9.1 or 9.2 MUST be on this computer?

what about firmware updates? should the firmware be updated too?

thanks. :)
 
10.2 will work fine albeit slowly. Quartz Etreme will not work with your graphics card, so you won't see as big a speed-up from 10.1.5 to 10.2 as others who have an up-todate graphics card, but it certainly won't stop you running 10.2 on your machine.

John.
 
Cool, I think you will find resizing or scrolling slower, but that's about it. I try not to resize, but instead use the green button to auto-resize any windows (if it works properly, depends on app).

I must say that little things are a lot slower than a PC. Opening a text document on my work PC is instantaneous, Web browsing is also slower (However Chimera has improved this a lot :) ) as well as switcing apps. I'm running a pbook g4 500mhz with 512mb. The most annoying thing is the time lag of opening a document, waiting for the bouncing to stop to see it. A bit embarassing as I am the only macintosh user at my clients site and I use my pbook for everything except the server stuff that I need to configure. Sometimes someone will ask a question for which I need to open a doc, wait..........

When I see the next pbook release I will be upgrading, hope it's a 1ghz processor.

John.
 
Definately upgrade the RAM, buy as much as you can afford, it is one of the best upgrades you can make to a computer running OS X. 10.2 will work, just no QE, but it will still be snappier than 10.1.x.
 
thanks for the info. Hey, why ya got so many macs? Im jealous. ;)

I just bought a 256 meg chip for this imac. $52!! wow. cheap.

amazing how cheap ram is and how many people do NOT bother to upgrade it. Big mistake.
 
just installed jaguar on this 333mhz imac. all seems well. But, I put in a cd and its spinning, and NOT mounting on the desktop.

????

now what?
 
Originally posted by PowermacG4_450
just installed jaguar on this 333mhz imac. all seems well. But, I put in a cd and its spinning, and NOT mounting on the desktop.

????

now what?
Click to expand...


forgot to mention. its a cd-r I burned. two of em. one burned with toast, one with macosX finder. neither would mount.

here is the error i get.
 

Attachments

  • jag error.jpg
    jag error.jpg
    20.9 KB · Views: 52
Have you orgraded via software updater to 10.2.1? There were some CD (writing ISO PC compatible not possible) issues which were fixed with the update. Perhaps it included reading CD's!

Try the update, see if that works

John.
 
How much HD do you need to install Jag ?

I've got a 400 MHz G3 that I would like to upgrade, but my basic HD is 6 G in 3 partitions (3 1.5 1.5) so that I'll have problems to get a linear 3G available as stated in Apple doc.
 
Either way it'd be worth upgrading. You can get an ATA 40Gb for very little these days and installings a doddle in your free drive bay. Then you can copy all your stuff over and make your old drive one big 6Gb for a system disk and photosop scratch maybe?!?!
 
the upgrade went well. installed the extra 256mb ram first. then 10.2.1.

works great. :)

this imac has a 6 gig hd. after installing jag and office X, there is about 3.5 megs left. Small hard drive. :(

its not a speed demon by any means, but not too bad at all! The 333mhz G3 is STILL a very fast machine. Im impressed. ;)
 
I can't even get my 233Mhz iMac to mount the 10.2 System Install Disk???
What gives???

See related thread.

EDIT: I finally got 10.2 to install and it runs just fine. But I really had problems, it was definatley not as easy as upgraqding my other systems. Be ready for a battle!!!
 
I have an iMac 233 and a powerbook 233 both running 10.2.2 and they rock. Definitely doing things more reliably and easily than 9 can do. I have 384 meg and 12 G in the -book and 512 / 30 in the iMac. More RAM and faster HD's are noticeable improvements in both. I wish I could set more caching in 10 like I could in X Server version 1. It made a slow hard drive a non issue, even though it made it a RAM hog.

Anyway, if your machine is supported, 10.2 is the way to go, don't hold back, just toss a few bucks to transintl and grab you some RAM along with that OS!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top