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I'm on an old Beige G3, and have still yet to get system X to run on it. What model are you on, and how is it for you?
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Re: Your Model
Fri, May 7, 2004 - 11:16 PMBeige G-3. Call me retro but I'm not going to even try to load/deal with OS X until I win the lottery and am able to purchase the soon to be released G-5 powerbook.
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Sat, May 8, 2004 - 12:41 AMI am so lost in delusion/samsara that I'm going to try to buy a used imac, 350 mhz unit and see if I can force system X onto that, since a few people I know has just squeked by with it. But I'm lost because I just got done telling someone else, "Wait till you get a G4." I too lust after a G5, although, at my income, that literally sounds like utter nirivana. -
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Mon, May 10, 2004 - 7:49 PMI have a friend who works at Mac who said, "I can't tell you anything...but don't buy anything for a few months."
And from personal experience, don't buy a G5 yet at all. They're too damn expenseive and that expense comes with no apps or extra memory so you'd spend another small fortune making it actually do anything.
Oh, and to answer your questions, I have a little graphite, clamshell iBook. Remember the clam shells? Remember the late '90's? Oh how I wish I'd waited two months! -
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Tue, May 11, 2004 - 11:47 PMBut even though I never owned one, I'm still attached to that old clamshell thing. And graphite was one of the coolest colors in the mac arsenal, that and tangerine and and aqua. I could do without stawberry and grape. Yeah, G5 and a flat screen with a few apps and you'd be about six grand under. That's a downpayment on a Palm Springs trailer home. -
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Wed, May 12, 2004 - 10:44 AMThe lottery; that's what I'm waiting for. I've heard there are problems with the G-5 and OSX - some story about burning out your panasonic dvd burner by asking it to burn a dvd @ 4x speed and thus sending it into a feedback loop that ends in self destruction. Rumor has it that bug is fixed.
I do have a flat screen monitor; my other monitor died, and I decided I needed the space on my desk to keep more stuff.
Trailer home in Palm Springs....you're AC bill there could pay for a G-5 in a year.
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B & W --> G4
Mon, May 17, 2004 - 6:54 PMI started out this month with my 1999 350mHz G3 blue-n-white with 2 displays, and two 130GB drives. Still great for building websites and editing photos.
I've been cruising craigslist.com in search of a G4 450 mHz so I can see if Virtual PC isn't actually a piece of crap. If VPC works, then I can sell all my intel, once and for all.
I also picked up a FireWire edition clamshell iBook on CL and I'm looking for used batteries that aren't spent. Having an iBook is great for my Event Portrait photo setups.
I stay in the post-beige era and Panther purrs on all my Macs. Though I suspect that G5 will be the next technology cut-off [I heard Classic doesn't run G5]. -
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Tue, May 18, 2004 - 1:06 AMHey, for me Blue and White is like a dream world I've never been too. I too cruise e-bay. My current budget is only $157, or $177 by this next payday, but still not enought, especially after the shipping ripoffs. When I look at the closing end of things, it seems they're selling for over $200, and that's the cheap ones.
Great that you're still on clam shell. I must admit they were very original. The new mac power books don't do anything for me aesthetically. -
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Tue, December 28, 2004 - 6:15 PMVirtual PC is still a mystery to me. I never seem to match the right version with the right Mac. And always I'm told the very next release is finally the one that really puts it over the edge, but it seem slike the rainbow. Every time I think I'm catching up to it, it moves again.
However, I just got my first 450Mhz machine in my life, a G3 iMac, and, to be honest, although it's by far the best computer I've had, the one before it literally being that horrid beige thing that was not even half that, as I recall. And I'm still feeling like it's too slow to really rock on Virtual PC. The one time I tried it, it really seemed to move slow on the older machine. If you go and buy a G4, maybe save just $50 more and get a 600Mhz. That seems to be the dividing line for so many performance issues I've had. If I had to do it over, I would have saved up for that extra bit of juice.
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Fri, December 24, 2004 - 2:03 PMModels, plural. I have a Pismo (my main CPU squeeze) and assorted older desktops and other Macs.
Recently, I figured out how to install OS X (including panther!) on to several of my Beige G3s using a bootstrap application called XPostFactO. I also have been exploring upchipping these babies and I nowhave a Beige G3 Mini Tower running at 400mhz by simply changing some jumpers. Its stable. However, you need to know what you are doing to do this sort of thing.
I make a living through handling computers. Don't bother going to OS X on a Beige unless you've got a lot of RAM. It will crawl.
If anyone wants help on improving their Beige G3 situation, let me know...
xlr8yourmac.com is my primary resource for information for improving old Macs...
