[rescue] pls forgive dumb TEST msg, and a q conc. OSX + G3/300

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Mon Mar 17 18:58:03 CST 2003


On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 07:46 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo 
+1.717.201.3366 wrote:
> I have a question about a possible rescue of a PowerMac G3/300, model
> type M4405.
>
> Is this zippy enough under OSX ?  I won't be doing anything but SSH,
> email, OpenOffice, web browsing.
>
> How much RAM should it have (currently has 128MB on one stick).

   I've found reasonable performance under OS X on a G3/333...Mozilla 
will suck donkey balls performance-wise, so try Camino (formerly 
Chimera).  128MB is just plain *not enough* memory...go with a minimum 
of 256MB, or more if you can.

           -Dave

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