Could the G3 400Mhz 128MB handle OSX

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Does anybody have a G3 400Mhz with OSX. I want to know how the performance runs. Thanks

 

[drlex]

Have a 333MHz 160Mb iMac at home on which I ran 10.1 (not Jaguar). The poor speed was reason enough to send me back to 9.2.2. I also couldn't get drivers for a couple of my peripherals.

Eventually I will go to 10.2, but only when I upgrade. Thanks to the fab spec of the new powerbooks, that may be sooner than I was expecting!
lex

 

[jsimon22]

I have a G3400 imac dv se. I am running Jaguar 10.2.2 and I do not have any problems with it at all. I do notice a speed difference when I boot os 9.2, but speed for features is the big tradeoff here. It is not bad though! Still very workable.

 

[jimoblak]

I run 10.1.5 on a 350MHz iMac with 320 Mb RAM. There seems to be no problem.

If you find yourself often waiting for things to process on your current system, you may wait a smidgen longer if you upgrade to a higher OS (no matter what platform).

 

[GuyMac]

Mac OS 10.2.2 runs great on my slotloading iMac 350Mhz with 512 MB RAM, no anoying delays on anything at all.

 

[macgeneral]

SOunds lke you are asking about a tower when you say "G3 400" though I'm assuming...then all the above folks respond with iMac info. Weird.

I'm running a 400Mhz b/w yosemite at the house with 10.1 and 384MB or X-compliant RAM.

I find it quite nice on the speed front. No real issues unless I'm running something like GoLive in Classic and then I get some image draw issues. I pretty much stay OUT of Classic. Run photoshop etc on the X side with no trouble.

Macgeneral

 

[jimoblak]

G3 400 Mhz computers may be iMacs. The iMac responses in this thread were given to show that a lesser computer can handle OSX.

 

[jimbopalmer]

Just a comment, those folks with near 128 Meg of RAM seemed unhappy, folks with same CPU speeds but over 256 meg of RAM seem happy, this may well be significant. I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[PTmon]

I ran OSX 10.2.3 on a blue & white G3/300. I have 384megs of ram though. It ran well. I recently bought a g4/500 upgrade from sonnet. It runs even better
PT

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[kfons]

Add more Memmory - It will help a lot.
I have 384mg ram on a Rev B G3 Imac and it ran acceptable.
I have since upgraded it to a 600Mhz G3 and it runs very nice - I'll never use OS 9 again!

Kevin