[geeks] OSX is going to ruin my life

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 06:53, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > > Now I want a G4 tower, and I have to figure out how to convince my wife
> > > to
> > > let me have one - right after I just blew a wad of money on an Octane,
> > > and
> > > blew yet another wad of money on a custom rear bumper for the truck...
> > 
> > Hee, hee... As a Mac user for lo these many years (18, I believe...
> > CRAP!  I'm getting old...), I just *loved* hearing that.
> 
> I've also been a mac user for a long time (first computer was an Apple
> //e) and I still have a Quadra here that I use now and again - but I had
> no idea OS X was sooooo cool.

Let's not get confused here...  The //e wasn't a Mac.  I actually liked
those critters (though the //c was far kinder in terms of space used). 
Then they had umpteen years of Bad Macs, then they hit PPC, and started
to suck less, eventually getting to the nice machines they've had for
the past couple of years (save the iBook and original iMac).  

> Now, has anyone put OS X on a 266Mhz iMac?  Gonna get one for the kids,
> and I'd like to put OS X on it.  I know apple supports it, but how's
> performance?

A friend just put it on their first gen iBook, and I haven't heard any
complaints.  But she added 512M of ram to it first, which should help a
lot.  
	Greg

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Portland, Oregon, USA.