Re: G3 iBook Usefullness
- From: real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell)
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:16:09 +0000
Danny Thompson <danny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A (non-Mac-using up to now) friend has been given a G3 iBook (Marble?)
600, 12Gb
What, 12GB HDD? Ooh. Small.
, 128Mb
RAM?
It wants more, much more.
with a CD drive.
She has passed it on to me to 'tinker with' for her. She wants to use it
for wireless browsing, and for iTunes syncing with her 2nd Gen Nano.
I shouldn't think an up to date QuickTime and/or iTunes would work on
10.2. I might be wrong.
I had a quick look and found that it boots ok, still has a usable
battery, but the CD isn't working (if you put a disc in, the drawer
clicks back out a couple of seconds after you engage it).
It's running 10.2.0, and comes with all the original install discs.
Booting into it gave me a similar displaced feeling I got when moving
from OS 8/9 to 10.0. Things have moved on the in the last half-decade
haven't they?
The user interface we have is differently styled and has a few extra
knobs, for sure. That doesn't tell you much about the changes
underneath - and underneath the user interface, 10.2 is very similar to
10.5. Lots of detailled changes, mind (which is how come 10.4 works so
much better) - but the basics are more or less the same. Nothing like
the change from the original line of the MacOS to MacOS X.
I've had a quick browse at www.lowendmac.com, but wondered if anyone
here is using one - and whether you think my friends ambitions for it
are realistic. Are there any other sources which will tell me what the
thing will run?
We have one here that died. It ran very nicely - if not quickly - on OS
X 10.3.9 (in the end) with max RAM (768MB, IIRC). And that's a big
improvement on 10.2, I can tell you. 10.2.0 is to avoided like the
plague - if nothing else, take it up to 10.2.8 or whatever the final
version of 10.2 was. And more than 128MB RAM is a very good idea.
Oh - it doesn't have an Airport card. Can I use a D-Link USB wireless
dongle-thingy? Or does it *have* to be an Airport card?
Dunno about that.
Rowland.
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