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iBook G3 $75
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Congrats. I bought my very first iBook on here in January for about $180 but it came with a charger/battery/airport card and all the original software. You can find Jaguar or Panther on ebay or in the marketplace(if you can access it) for under $20. Drop a larger HDD, upgrade to 640mb ram and maybe a DVD drive in there and that will run Tiger like a champ.
Just watch out for the dreaded "video card" failure that's plagued about 75% of all ibooks.
Just watch out for the dreaded "video card" failure that's plagued about 75% of all ibooks.
U FINALLY GOT IT!!! GOOD job what os does it have on it? look what i did to my macbook link in sig. nvm it says os 9 but i got a place where u can get jag
If cassie still has it she can tell u
COugh i hope u still have it somewhere
If cassie still has it she can tell u
COugh i hope u still have it somewhere
Now you just need Jaguar ... like somone suggested.
There is a a piece of software call xdefacto or something like that. It will allow you to by pass the hardware check.
I have Tiger running on a G3 Powerbook --- But I took out the hard drive, threw it into a firewire enclosure, installed it on a different PPC machine, and then threw the harddrive back in.
ORRRRR --- get yourself a copy of xubuntu --- i tried ... but my cd rom is fried and after a week of playing around with netboot and HD, ISO partitions, i went the other other root ... but ya ... xubuntu ... I have it running on another machine ...AWESOME... just a thought
There is a a piece of software call xdefacto or something like that. It will allow you to by pass the hardware check.
I have Tiger running on a G3 Powerbook --- But I took out the hard drive, threw it into a firewire enclosure, installed it on a different PPC machine, and then threw the harddrive back in.
ORRRRR --- get yourself a copy of xubuntu --- i tried ... but my cd rom is fried and after a week of playing around with netboot and HD, ISO partitions, i went the other other root ... but ya ... xubuntu ... I have it running on another machine ...AWESOME... just a thought
i have tiger with the 4 cd version but it runs slow with 128 mb of ram i tried with my imac without firewire , but yea jag or panther should be fine until he gets some more ram, assuming it would be easy since he has the 128 built in and an open slot for 512, but yea hes new to macs and wants to use osx as he explained in a different forum which is in his or cassies link cough cough
oh it's painfull to run anything my g3 is 333 mhz with 128 running tiger... I just run text edit and a few services, afp, ftp, http, and vine server
Nice, that is a pretty good fine. Now see if you have install Leopard.
i could do it easilly but he needs mostlikly more than a 10gb hd and 128mb of ram, when he was saying in this OTHER FORUM, sounded as he wanted osx but didnt care what kind, im thinkin he just wants to get away from windows????
What is the Leopord install size?
Tiger is 2.2 -- IF you don't install printer drivers or languages --- also this does not include iLife
But u dont understand, 128mb of ram leopard needs 512 and still runs sluggish tiger needs 256, he mostlikly doesnt want to spend alot of money. and u can get leopard the loweest i think 5.9gb with out anything like no languages x11 or printer drivers
omg.... give me one of them which ever u go on most., and u dont need xdefacto because u have the right hardware for jag