IBook g3

[ginger_pat]

Hi i got offered a g3 for £80 got it at the moment to try it out and was wondering is it worth it? It has 10gbHD 64mb ram and the processor runs at 0.5Ghz ( i know low specs) i will be using ot for music and coursework mainly and internet. So any thoughts would be graet

 

[BillytheImpaler]

If it's one of the white ones it might be good. If it's one of the horrific colored generation I'd steer clear. With what OS does it come?

Offer him £60.

 

[J1234]

£60 would be a bargain. They're all great even though they are old

Edit: I presume it's coming with OS 9?

 

[ginger_pat]

He gave me OSX 10.0.3 in which i installed last night

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Terrifying! OS X 10.0 was so bad they gave away 10.1 for free.

Scrape up a copy of Tiger if you can. With Leopard coming out soon there should be quite a few used retail copies of Tiger on the market.

 

[J1234]

Wow, what does it run like with 10.0.3? Is it horrible and slow?

 

[ginger_pat]

No i don't know what any other versions woulld run like i might look to buy an external harddrive and some ram. What ram would i have to get and would any hard drive be ok?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

The hard disk will likely be just plain old 2.5" PATA. The RAM slot will take a PC133 SODIMM up to 512 MiB. There is also non-removable RAM built-in that's either 64 or 128 MiB.

As OS X matured through its first three or four versions they got faster with each revision. 10.3 on my PowerMac runs much faster than 10.1 did.

 

[ginger_pat]

Ok so i have just put on some songs and pictures is there i was i could put a picture as my background?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I don't kno 10.0 but I imagine it's just like it is with the rest of the variants. Applications > System Preferences > Desktop & Screensaver

 

[Will_3rd]

go into system preferences -> desktop and screen savers, should all be there

 

[Beepcake]

If you don't want it i'd buy it at that price

I'd recommend getting a copy of Tiger if you can.. I got my sister a 400Mhz G3 iMac a while back and it runs Tiger and Office quite nicely.. much better than the Panther it came with.. pretty impressive considering how "out of date" they are.

 

[ginger_pat]

Sorry for not replying using a windows till i get a wireless card and it keeps crashing. I sorted out the screensaver thanks.
What is the difference between panther lepord and OSX n all this business i seriously don't have a clue

 

[WotDa]

What is the difference between panther lepord and OSX n all this business i seriously don't have a clue

10.3, 10.4 and 10.5

Win2000, XP and Vista, basically...

 

[gumbald]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X

Wikipedia is your friend (generally).

 

[ginger_pat]

Thankyou ive swotted up on Macs now :L now i am thinking about purchasing a wireless card or airport card. Would i be able to use a Airport extreme card which are on the apple website for £30? Or does my ibook not support it? Thanks again pat

 

[ginger_pat]

Come on guys does anyone know if my ibook 0.5GHZ processor and 64mb ram and a 10gb Hard drive will support an airport extreme card?

 

[punky_munky]

I'd seriously think about sticking some more RAM in there. Don't know about your wireless question though, sorry.

 

[Will_3rd]

Come on guys does anyone know if my ibook 0.5GHZ processor and 64mb ram and a 10gb Hard drive will support an airport extreme card?

Nope doesn't support Airport Extreme (b/g) as it's too old, you might be able to pickup an old Airport (b) card on that well known auction site. Could prove to be pricey though usually go for £40 range, have a look though anyway.

 

[ginger_pat]

Yes was thinking the same thing but where can i get some from do overclockers sell them i didn't think they did. What type of ram would it be would it be

PC133 SODIMM up to 512 MiB

as billytheimpaler suggested?