Why Macs Are Awesome

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I'm using this upgraded Beige PowerMac G3/233 to type this information on the Internet.

"So what's so great about this?" you may say.

What I cannot believe is that Apple has tuned MacOS X (10.2.6) so well that this upgraded G3/233, runs as fast as my PowerBook G4/500, which is almost 3 years younger than the PowerMac.

Now, granted this upgraded G3/233 presently is actually a G3/400, with a overclocked G3/350 which I took from a B&W G3/350 after upgrading it to a G4/500, and its memory has been maxed out at 768MB.

Still, Apple did a wonderful job.

For those of you who think your MacOS X is slow, please add more physical memory (RAM) and upgrade to 10.2.6.

Best Regards,
George Lien
 
I just got my hands on a G3 All-in-one for my house because my G4/800 is goin' to my apartment. I'll have to to try loading X.2 on the G3. :) It currently run OS 9, and it feels so ... old.
 
Great! I was going to upgrade my wife's G3 iMac 400 mhx to OS X, but was worried. I just need to buy her more RAM!
 
yeah, I'm waiting for prices to drop too ... then I can pass the 512 MB over to the Graphite iBook: that should help speed things up!
 
I just traded in my clamshell 300 (384 megs Ram, 30 gig hd) but my only complaint with it was the vRam (a scrawny 4megs) that didn't allow for more than 800 x 600 resolution. OS X 2.6 worked very well on it.

Well there were two complaints, the other was that there was no way to hook it to a video projector for presentations. ;)

OS X runs well in older machines.
 
Anyone have any experience with X.2 on an iMac 266? (tray loading cdrom, no firewire)
it currently has 64mb ram, but if i knew it would run well enough (its really only my parents that use it for a bit of email/word processing), i would convince dad to get some extra ram for it, and it would make things so much easier. (9 & X don't play too nice together on a network it seems)
 
I installed OS X.2 on another Beige PowerrMac G3/233 with only 256MB. Beige PowerrMac G3/400 with only 256MB feels as slow as the G3/233.

My suggestion is to have at least 512MB of RAM if not 768MB.

- G
 
Well, Pengu, it won't feel very fast, but it will be quite stable, and you can make it faster by completely maxing out the RAM.

George: Is this second G3/233 actually a 233 Mhz G3? How does X run on it? I may put it on this machine (the same) with 320 MB RAM if it runs fairly decently.
 
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