My First Mac!

Matisfaction · Post by **Matisfaction** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:41 am

Here's a good site that you can use as a kinda guide/reference point for upgrading your mac as much as you can to get the best out of it.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:46 am

A beige G3? I think you will need XPostFacto to install OSX. About Marathon, check here.

Bertrude · Post by **Bertrude** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:54 am

Quake III Arena and Unreal would work OK on the G3 and I guess would be easier to hook up with PC users (just an assumption though)

SuperMegatron · Post by **SuperMegatron** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:09 pm

Here is how to upgrade that machine on the cheap. The first issue is video. Hunt down a geforce 2 pci or a ati radeon 7000 pci buy the pc version and mac flash them. The average cost of them is around 10-15 bucks. You will also need a usb card any pci usb card will work if you upgrade to osx. To get osx do a search on ebay for a ibook restore cd set. You can run 10.2.8 and below.

SuperMegatron · Post by **SuperMegatron** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:14 am

to flash the ati radeon go to strangedogs.com and visit there forum to get the rom and the files for the flash you will need a pc to flash the card. The radeon needs to have ddr ram aswell.

danthemanuno · Post by **danthemanuno** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:28 pm

I have been a mac user all my life and I would really recommend just using OS 9 because the G3's have a lot of difficulty running OS X. It will work, but it slows down the computer.

SuperMegatron · Post by **SuperMegatron** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:36 pm

danthemanuno wrote:I have been a mac user all my life and I would really recommend just using OS 9 because the G3's have a lot of difficulty running OS X. It will work, but it slows down the computer.

Thats true os9 is faster but if he is a windows convert he will be more comfortable using osx.

Bertrude · Post by **Bertrude** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:01 am

It's weird but OS9 still seems faster than OSX today - just more responsive. I don't miss the crashes, extension conflicts and application quits much though.

Bertrude · Post by **Bertrude** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:34 pm

Heh, OS 7. I started there too when I was doing design at Uni. My first mac (performa 6400) came with OS 7 (along with some cool games - FullThrottle and Descent). I remember being really tentative about moving up to OS8 when it came out. It seemed so new and different. OSX was quite a jump for me but it's not too bad apart from the round spinning beach ball and I wish Apple built in windowshade to OSX in with the Expose features. I still miss it

Jaded JAaron77 · Post by **Jaded JAaron77** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:59 am

my first mac was a Classic running system6 ... oh those were the days... later I got a IIcx that had 7 on it (both were used when i got them). Playing around with the IIcx one day, I put system 6 on it and disabled everything extra.... that thing would go from cold to useable in nine seconds flat. ...beats BeOS even

SuperMegatron · Post by **SuperMegatron** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:47 pm

Jaded JAaron77 wrote:my first mac was a Classic running system6 ... oh those were the days... later I got a IIcx that had 7 on it (both were used when i got them). Playing around with the IIcx one day, I put system 6 on it and disabled everything extra.... that thing would go from cold to useable in nine seconds flat. ...beats BeOS even

I remember when the mac IIcx came out it was like 6 grand right? That was nearly 20 years ago so you have bought 2 dodge caravans for the cost of that 1 computer.

SadisticSaviorX · Post by **SadisticSaviorX** » Tue May 23, 2006 11:21 am

i might get a imac dv... my school is throwing it out and i want to save it! =]

i took a look at it and it has 128mb of ram and a 400mhz g3.
if i somehow save this machine, can i put more ram in it? will it take PC133 or strictly PC100?
will i be able to install OS X on it? it has a firewire port, so i hear it can be done.

it would be my first mac and im really excited about it, so any help would be awesome.

Post by **pixel** » Tue May 23, 2006 11:33 am

SadisticSaviorX wrote:i might get a imac dv... my school is throwing it out and i want to save it! =]

i took a look at it and it has 128mb of ram and a 400mhz g3.
if i somehow save this machine, can i put more ram in it? will it take PC133 or strictly PC100?
will i be able to install OS X on it? it has a firewire port, so i hear it can be done.

it would be my first mac and im really excited about it, so any help would be awesome.

OS X can go on any machine released since 1998?or anything with a G3 or higher. Also, a G3 iMac would need PC100.

SadisticSaviorX · Post by **SadisticSaviorX** » Wed May 24, 2006 4:45 pm

pixel wrote:
SadisticSaviorX wrote:i might get a imac dv... my school is throwing it out and i want to save it! =]

i took a look at it and it has 128mb of ram and a 400mhz g3.
if i somehow save this machine, can i put more ram in it? will it take PC133 or strictly PC100?
will i be able to install OS X on it? it has a firewire port, so i hear it can be done.

it would be my first mac and im really excited about it, so any help would be awesome.
OS X can go on any machine released since 1998?or anything with a G3 or higher. Also, a G3 iMac would need PC100.

thanks for the help Pixel.

well, today they basically told me i can keep it cause' no one else wants it.
it used to belong to an athletics teacher who was a "mac person" and they just left it in a corner until now.

they had a copy of OS X from the maclab and i used it to install.

it works well overall but the nice aqua effects slow it down some.
i plan on replacing the hard drive with a spare 80gb i have here...so it should speed the access times a lil over the stock.

but,other than that, can anyone suggest any tweak/addition i should make?

Post by **pixel** » Wed May 24, 2006 6:51 pm

Get that stock HDD out because it's only running at 5200rpm. Other than that and RAM, there isn't much you can do.