and it only took you 8 months
10.4.11 is painfully slow on my 500 mhz G3 i(ce)Book even maxed at 640 megs of RAM.
more power to you for having the patience to run in on 300 mhz. Those machines were built for OS 9.
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and it only took you 8 months
10.4.11 is painfully slow on my 500 mhz G3 i(ce)Book even maxed at 640 megs of RAM.
more power to you for having the patience to run in on 300 mhz. Those machines were built for OS 9.
and it only took you 8 months
I'm actually not the OP, but though it took me about 8 months to get around to it, I actually had it up and running in a few hours.
So it's not as snappy as my new imac and MBP but it loads stuff in far less time than my previous Windows machine. Scrolling isn't super smooth, but everything responds well. It loads tiger in under a minute and most apps launch in just a few seconds. It runs Safari 3.2 just fine; rather sluggish yes on sites with lots of Flash and video (youtube isn't really useable). So far it never gets bogged down with massive disk thrashing like in windows.
For a 10 year old computer running almost current software It's much better than I expected. I mean can you picture Windows XP on a 300 Mhz Pentium II? Painfully slow is (the admittedly stale install of) XP on my 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 machine.
I don't plan to ask much of it, but for light web surfing, itunes and email it works perfectly fine.
It played music on itunes without a missing a beat the whole time it was running software updates...
I was just joking, seeing how the previous post was 8 months ago.
I agree, Macs are remarkable in their longevity. In addition to the machines in my sig, I have several other PPC's approaching a decade-old. All run systems beyond their original intentions and all run like new. My favorite, a 1997 3400c runs 9.1 which I use with iTunes 2.0 for streaming radio.
OS <X (pre 10) bothers the crap out of me. So all of the power to you for running iTunes 2.0 on an OS I can't stand.
Mine can.
But strapping granny to the back of the Ford Focus might get you in trouble, even if she does smell like Ben Gay.
Eh, it's possible with a few modifications to the install.
But, on anything under 500 MHz, it's not worth it.