[ale] iMac

[Christopher Fowler]

Can I go to the Apple Store and buy OSX 10.4 Tiger and install it on the
G3?


On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 07:23 -0400, Van Loggins wrote:
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>         Message: 2
>         Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:38:19 -0400
>         From: Christopher Fowler < cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
>         Subject: [ale] iMac
>         To: ale at ale.org
>         Message-ID: <1152736699.1986.50.camel at shuttle.linxdev.com>
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>         Based on a review on http://www.osnews.com/story.php?
>         news_id=15122 I
>         bought a Snow G3 500/256m/20GB/CD-RW iMac.  It came with OSX
>         10.1 and I
>         want my daughter to primarily use it to access disney.com and
>         nick.com.
>         Will the flash work well?  Are there any G3 based Live CD's
>         where I can 
>         boot up Linux to back up the HDD to an image file over the
>         network?
> 
> 
> Hardly anyone in the Apple community will tell you this but up until
> the G5 models came out, you could install OSX from the Grey restore
> disks from any Mac system. What you may want to do is check on ebay
> and see if you can find yourself a G4 restore disk set for Mac OSX
> version 10.3 "Panther", for a good price.  That version should run
> very well on that system. Make sure that they specify that it has the
> OS disks, as some people just sell the application restore disks for
> the systems and they keep the OS disks for themselves. As an
> alternative you should be able to find a used retail copy of Panther
> for less than 50 dollars on ebay. 
> 
> I've noticed with Mac OS X with each new version the OS gets faster
> but it definitely likes memory, you may want to get another stick of
> ram to put in your system to help it perform at maximum efficiency.
> 
> Hope this info helps you out. 
> 
> Take care
> 
> Van Loggins
> 
> 
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