Old i macs ...

[Sabenth]

Hi guys i have a mate in sydeny australia who has offerd me an old I mac supposeldy g4 400mhz 128 ram 6.5 gig drive cd rom etc

he states that theres osx on it

my question is can old I macs 1 run osx can they come with g4s and is he having me on....

Just checking this out as if its legit then id like to buy it off him as a kind of take apart and put back together sort of thing just see how they were bulit etc ...

heres the specs for it

Processor: 400MHz G3

System Bus: 100MHz

L2 Cache: 512KB

RAM: 128MB PC100

Hard Drive: 6.5GB

CD Drive: 24x Slot-Loading CD-ROM


OLD BLUE I MAC....

THANKS SABENTH

 

[dricci]

It should be able to run OS X just fine. You'll want to upgrade the ram to at least 256 MB, though.

 

[Sabenth]

thanx dricci how easy is it to update these old boxes ive just bought the new i mac and i know that it aint easy upgrading memory on them ie filling in the second slot...\

Sabenth .

PS HOW FAR CAN YOU TAKE THE MEMROY UP TOO...

 

[voicegy]

All you wish to know is only a mouse click away on the Apple site.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58007

 

[irmongoose]

The specs you gave say G3, yet you say can it have G4...



irmongoose

 

[Ugg]

Originally posted by Sabenth
thanx dricci how easy is it to update these old boxes ive just bought the new i mac and i know that it aint easy upgrading memory on them ie filling in the second slot...\

Sabenth .

PS HOW FAR CAN YOU TAKE THE MEMROY UP TOO...

It was the easiest installation I've ever done. My iMac 400 runs OSX just fine. Max out the ram! Sorry, I don't know the max, I added 256 and it works great.

 

[mislabeledstar]

my advice would be to max everything out when you do it the first time. my dad has one of those blue imacs and i used to go in n out of there upgrading it for him. i hate opening those ol imacs up, they're such a pain, especially after going in there working on it, then forgeting something after it's closed up and pull it all aprt again...... blah