HARD DRIVE FULL - iMac G3 233MHz

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I have an iMac G3 233MHz with 256mb (128x2) of ram, the thing is chugging… OS 9.2.2 & OS X 10.2

Here is the kicker (as if the 256mb of ram wasn’t) it has a 4 GB hard drive with 179.7mb free…

How much drive space does OSX take? I am guessing that is what ate up the 4 GB drive, I know Windows Vista eats up hard drive space and memory. I was thinking of searching the net for restore discs and then building it back up to speed…

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1362?viewlocale=en_US
I am guessing Mac OS 8.1 or Mac OS 8.5 would be a good start

Here is what I know…

Software Overview
System Version: OS X 10.2 (6C115)
Boot Volume
Kernel Version: Darwin Kernel Version 6.0 Sat Jul 27 13:18:52 PDT 2002;root:xnu/xnu-344.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC

Hardware Overview
Machine Speed: 233MHz PowerPC G3
Bus Speed: 67Mhz
Number of Processors: 1
L2 Cache Size: 512K
Machine Model: iMac Version = 2.2
Boot ROM Info: 3.0.f2

Memory Overview
J3/Bottom 128 Mb
J1/Top 128 Mb

Back in 1998 this was a nice little machine and we would have dreamed of owning such a beast in 1993. Can it be upgraded or am I better off trashing it… Help...

 

[Artofilm]

Buy a new Mac with everything already preinstalled on it.
The new iMacs are a great deal for what is included!

 

[MacGeek7]

I would have to agree with the poster above me - Get yourself a new iMac - you really can't go wrong with it

 

[rfruth]

Get a new one, its only money ... My G3 has a whopping 9 GB hard disk (1 GB free) and I get the your startup disk is almost full message way too much (bad things can happen if the hard disk fills up so I try to avoid that) anyway get the "24 with lots of RAM