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#1 2008-11-24 12:23 pm
- pmh142ar
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help with older mac g3
can some one help me . i found a older mac g3 and got it to run but how do make it work with os x ? . it had the disk in it.... can some one help a hewbe like me.....?
thank i put the os on right . it has a little mac on screen ? help 
i look at the show ask the tech . but it not like xp at all ? work with windows for 20 year. but this is new to me
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Stack it!#3 2008-11-24 1:02 pm
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Re: help with older mac g3
Beige G3s run OS X just fine - if it's 10.0, 10.1 or 10.2. It won't boot Windows XP or run Windows programs though.
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#4 2008-11-24 1:36 pm
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Re: help with older mac g3
it looks like the original g3 laptop couldn't run 10 ... mac tracker shows 9 as the max.
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#5 2008-11-24 1:51 pm
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Re: help with older mac g3
mrreet2001 wrote:
it looks like the original g3 laptop couldn't run 10 ... mac tracker shows 9 as the max.
Good point - I just assumed they mean a Beige G3 too. 
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#6 2008-11-24 2:07 pm
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Re: help with older mac g3
I assume it is a beige too ... but I decided to look up every g3 I could think of.
2.66Ghz QuadCore-Nehalem w/24"LED CD ---2.2Ghz BlackMB---15" 2.4Ghz MBP(work)
Dual 2.3Ghz G5 (4G Ram, 2x 250G HD)(10.5 server)--- 400Mhz G4 PM (10.4 Server)
1.5GHz Powerbook---1.6Ghz G5 iMac
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#7 2008-11-24 3:28 pm
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Re: help with older mac g3
Download MacTracker (donationware, versions for both Macs and Windows) or look through Apple History to help identify your Mac. Unfortunately what you may be able to do to your Mac depends on which model it is, so we won't be able to help without some more info on your Mac.
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#8 2008-11-24 3:31 pm
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Re: help with older mac g3
The B&W was a G3, too and it can run OS X just fine. Well, fine for a 10 year old computer, which means pokey as smurf if you want to do anything useful, but it would handle playing music with iTunes with no problem.
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#9 2008-11-24 10:11 pm
Re: help with older mac g3
You may have to partition the drive so that OS X is installed on a 8Gb or smaller partition in order to get it to boot, I had a Beige G3 tower that had a Rev.A ROM in it necessitating the 8Gb partition trick. It ran 10.2.8 for years, I donated it just a few weeks ago Marathon sticker set and all to a good cause.
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#10 2008-11-25 11:48 am
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Re: help with older mac g3
Pithecanthropus wrote:
The B&W was a G3, too and it can run OS X just fine. Well, fine for a 10 year old computer, which means pokey as smurf if you want to do anything useful, but it would handle playing music with iTunes with no problem.
GF is using my BW G3 running Panther for online school work. She bitches a little about the speed but is thankful to have any sort of OSX computer. Her 7600 OS9 model wouldn't cut it.
I told her she was welcome to use the G5 in my office if she really needed some speed (I'm going to turn that one into an internet TV server though).
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
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