Yay me.. i got a Apple PowerBook G3 for free tonight

[The Stigenator]

it powers on but doesnt do much more.. OS is fscked up.. i dont have time to mess with it tonight but i will later on.

However do you know what the specs are for teh PowerBook G3, i got some rough idea but know what it shipped with by default? I think its got a 400mhz processor, ut i could be wrong. I wonder if it would run OSX 10.4

 

[Shawn]

I am running os x tiger on my blue and white g3 with no problems. I upgraded the video card though.

 

[imported_Lucifer]

Stick with 10.3

Go here to find out the specs.

 

[The Stigenator]

So I figured out I have teh Powerbook G3 Bronze (333/400mhz) laptop.. so now i got to figure out how much ram and stuff its got. Geesh. i wonder if anybody i know has a copy of OSX 10.4 or the preferred 10.3, though i would like anythign OSX..

 

[jagec]

Is that the sleek black version? I had one of those, but the 233MHz/no L2 cache version. I actually ran OS X on it for a while.

 

[The Stigenator]

Originally posted by: Lucifer
Stick with 10.3

Go here to find out the specs.

according to this page its the G3/333 or G3/400 mhz pages.. not teh FW which denotes firewire.. this doesnt have firewire.

THe 333 came with standard cdrom, the 400 came with a dvd.. if i can get this thing to boot up enough to see whats its got i am good, it shuts down due to the OS being fubared.

and i dont know how to work with a mac.

 

[Excelsior]

Definitely max out the ram, possibly/preferably upgrade the hardrive, and install 10.3.9.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: TheGoodGuy

Originally posted by: Lucifer
Stick with 10.3

Go here to find out the specs.

according to this page its the G3/333 or G3/400 mhz pages.. not teh FW which denotes firewire.. this doesnt have firewire.

THe 333 came with standard cdrom, the 400 came with a dvd.. if i can get this thing to boot up enough to see whats its got i am good, it shuts down due to the OS being fubared.

and i dont know how to work with a mac.

Send it to me, I know how to fix it.

 

[BatmanNate]

I'm running 10.4.7 on my B&W G3 400 and it runs fine with 512mb of RAM.

 

[The Stigenator]

okay how does one boot off a cdrom??? first i got to eject that bloody ah heck then boot off teh cdrom.

i downloaded UBUNTU 5.10 LIVE cd to test and see what i got on that baby.. I can run legally 10.3 because 10.4 requires firewire to be present before being installed, 10.3 needs USB to be present.

 

[randomlinh]

10.4 needs firewire to be present?? that's an odd requirement

 

[The Stigenator]

Originally posted by: randomlinh
10.4 needs firewire to be present?? that's an odd requirement

according to wikipedia..

 

[imported_Lucifer]

Originally posted by: randomlinh
10.4 needs firewire to be present?? that's an odd requirement

That can't be right. BatmanNate is running 10.4 on his B&W G3. I don't think the G3 towers even had firewire.

To boot off a cd, hold down the C key.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Lucifer

Originally posted by: randomlinh
10.4 needs firewire to be present?? that's an odd requirement

That can't be right. BatmanNate is running 10.4 on his B&W G3. I don't think the G3 towers even had firewire.

To boot off a cd, hold down the C key.

No, they do. Mine has firewire.

 

[imported_Lucifer]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: Lucifer

Originally posted by: randomlinh
10.4 needs firewire to be present?? that's an odd requirement

That can't be right. BatmanNate is running 10.4 on his B&W G3. I don't think the G3 towers even had firewire.

To boot off a cd, hold down the C key.

No, they do. Mine has firewire.

Cool didn't know that. Didn't think it had firewire. Good to know.

Anyways, firewire is required to install 10.4 according to Apples website. 10.3 would be perfectly fine.

 

[LtPage1]

10.4 also sucks down RAM like none other, thanks to the Dashboard. Definitely stick with Panther. Those things are durable, too- get it running with neo office and Starcraft!

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: LtPage1
10.4 also sucks down RAM like none other, thanks to the Dashboard. Definitely stick with Panther. Those things are durable, too- get it running with neo office and Starcraft!

Dashboard can be disabled.

 

[chcarnage]

OS X 10.4 doesn't "need" FireWire. Apple gave this system requirement to the average user because the subsets of FireWire-equipped Macs and sufficiently equipped Macs for 10.4 are nearly identical.

According to Apple, 10.4 doesn't run on early G3 Powerbooks but I remember some reports of users who tried it anyway. I don't know if they succeeded and how big the hurles were.

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
I'm running 10.4.7 on my B&W G3 400 and it runs fine with 512mb of RAM.

Liar. Even with a gig of ram in my B&W G3 with a 600mhz overclocked G4 processor installed, 10.2.1 ran like DOG SH!T.

A powerbook G3 had better stick to OS9 IMHO.

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Why'd you download the 5.10 CD? 6.06 has been out for a while.

 

[chcarnage]

Originally posted by: acemcmac

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
I'm running 10.4.7 on my B&W G3 400 and it runs fine with 512mb of RAM.

Liar. Even with a gig of ram in my B&W G3 with a 600mhz overclocked G4 processor installed, 10.2.1 ran like DOG SH!T.

A powerbook G3 had better stick to OS9 IMHO.

Actually 10.3 is less ressource hungry than 10.2 (10.4 with all features active is another story). I run 10.2.8 on my B&W G3 450 Mhz and the performance is fair.

@OP: If you have a friend with a Mac that runs on OS X, he can burn you a bootable CD with the software CarbonCopyCloner.

Edit: My B&W runs with 512 MB RAM and is upgraded with the very first Mac Radeon (32 MB VRAM)

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: acemcmac

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
I'm running 10.4.7 on my B&W G3 400 and it runs fine with 512mb of RAM.

Liar. Even with a gig of ram in my B&W G3 with a 600mhz overclocked G4 processor installed, 10.2.1 ran like DOG SH!T.

A powerbook G3 had better stick to OS9 IMHO.

you need a new video card. everything is fast in 10.4.7 once quartz extreme is enabled. I only have 256mb of ram too.