More Hardware questions

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Just a quick addition to Clint's post - you don't necessarily need to 
repurchase your Mac OS 9 applications, since OS X has a "Classic" mode 
that runs all of those old applications.  (I should add that I don't 
know whether Panther has Classic mode, though I assume it does; I use 
Jaguar, which does have Classic, and I've never had any problems using 
it, even for games).

Evan


On Sunday, November 2, 2003, at 08:24 PM, Clinton MacDonald wrote:

> Dave:
>
> --- dfro <dfro@umich.edu> wrote:
>> Thanks for the advice. My computer is a 550 MHz > Ti
> PowerBook G4 laptop with a 20 gig hd. It has
>> two USB 1.0 ports and one Firewire port.
>
> *Now* we're talking! You have a "PowerBook G4 (Gigabit
> Ethernet)" according to Mactracker:
>
> <http://www.mactracker.ca>
>
>>> Since I can't afford to buy another computer
>>> at the moment, I think I will get OS X and
>>> install it on my existing 20 gig hd. Any
>>> advice on  which version of X to get?
>
> I assume you are in the market for Mac OS X. Your
> PowerBook has a video card that will support Quartz
> Extreme (Apple's technology to make the video card to
> all the work in running the OS X eye candy), so I see
> no reason not to purchase Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther).
> Panther should run moderately fast on your 550 MHz
> processor (online reports say that Panther is faster
> than Jaguar on older Macs). Since you are affiliated
> with a university, you can purchase Panther for US$69
> through your school (a great price). If you do not
> have at *least* 256 MB of RAM (and 320 MB or more
> would be better), purchase more RAM (RAM prices are as
> low as US$30 for a 256-MB "stick" -- buy two). Your
> total investment would be around US$130 (less, if you
> already have the RAM), and you will have a modern,
> crash-resistant operating system with a world-class
> user interface.
>
> Any additional money you save can be put towards a
> used 500-MHz PC on which you can install Mandrake or
> Red Hat Linux, and do all your experimenting on that
> "toy" computer. ;-)
>
> (Of course, it won't be as cheap as I am proposing;
> your biggest investment will be in purchasing --
> repurchasing, in many cases -- new OS X applications,
> tools, games, and shareware to match what you were
> used to in Mac OS 9. It's like having to buy the White
> Album, again. :-) )
>
>> Let me know any more thoughts you might have
>
> There you have my thoughts -- good luck!
>
> Best wishes,
> Clint
>
> -- 
> Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald
> AT sbcglobal DOT net>
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