OSX on a Beige/233 Minitower - Would I be wasting my time?

[soccerfan]

I live overseas so I don't have a chance to do much comparision shopping.

I have a beige minitower233 - one of the originals.

Would trying to put OSX on this just be a waste of time?

I'd upgrade to 256+ MB RAM.

Would my day-to-day performance be worse or better than what I have with OS8.5?

I generally do non-intensive stuff - Macromedia Flash, Photoshop4, web browsing...

I'm mostly interested in using the Apache/Linux stuff, playing with the new interface, and having my day to day performance be as good as it is now.

Or should I just skip it? Thoughts?

 

[Catfish_Man]

Performance...

...won't be the equal of 8.5 on anything less than a dual G4 (because anything other than dual processors and Altivec speeds up 8.5 just as much as X). I have a beige desktop 233MHz with 10.1.5, 384MB of ram, and a 30GB 7200rpm Quantum hard drive. I quite like it, but it's not fast.

 

[soccerfan]

Thank you for your reply!

When you mean it's not as fast, do you just mean your average duties (ie scrolling, etc.), or application performance?

What would I have to look forward to? Besides just being pretty!