Mac Attack

[howeird]

Just for grins, pulled the Mac G3 out of the closet and set it up in the computer room. Took about 5 minutes to figure out the TCP/IP control panel (it needed a DHCP server address, which Windows figures out automatically). It's up and running, and now I suppose I need to see if it's capable of running OS X. It has 9.2.2 now, 128MB SDRAM, 12G HDD and it says 350MHz on the back, but I don't know what that refers to. I know I will need to replace the CD drive with a DVD drive if I want to install OS X. The guys at the Apple store in the mall said if I gave them the serial number they could look it up for me, but I suspect I can do that myself on the apple web site.

Comments

[unseelie23.livejournal.com]

I was about to say that it should have figured out the DHCP server address as well, but then you mentioned Mac OS 9.x... I can assure you that OS X does that on it's own.

You'll need at least 256mb of RAM for OS X to be remotely usable, but I consider 512mb a bare minumum thes days (assuming you want to run apps).

As for whether it can run OS X... it should be able to do so unless it's a beige G3... basically, if it doesn't have firewire onboard, it's not supported. There's probably magic to make it work, but...

[howeird]

Thanks. Yeah, it's one of the blue ones, has dual firewire. So I guess I just need RAM and DVD