<strong>I have a similar question. I have a beige G3, 233mHz, 66mHz bus, 192mb RAM. Should I even bother, or just wait until i get a new computer? I'm assuming that it will be kind of sluggish, and I can't really afford that. any advice?
i have a 400mhz g4 tower and os x 10.1 runs great. if you are seriously concerned about performance but price concious, i would say go with this machine but load it with ram, especially if you run your monitor at a high resolution.
when i switched from my 15 inch at 1024x768 to a 19 inch sony at 1600x1200 i noticed my machine slowed down a lot. doesn't really have much to do with the video card. the problem was that all my windows were larger. each window takes multiple megabytes of ram for buffering. if you hear your disk grinding when bringing windows to the fore-front, you need more ram.
ram is CHEAP so load up. I'm running 832mb now and it's like a whole new machine.
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<strong>I have a similar question. I have a beige G3, 233mHz, 66mHz bus, 192mb RAM. Should I even bother, or just wait until i get a new computer? I'm assuming that it will be kind of sluggish, and I can't really afford that. any advice?
[ 01-12-2002: Message edited by: Stroszek ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
Live with 9 and wait till you can upgrade. Cross you fingers and maybe X will get fast enough for your machine with X.2.
when i switched from my 15 inch at 1024x768 to a 19 inch sony at 1600x1200 i noticed my machine slowed down a lot. doesn't really have much to do with the video card. the problem was that all my windows were larger. each window takes multiple megabytes of ram for buffering. if you hear your disk grinding when bringing windows to the fore-front, you need more ram.
ram is CHEAP so load up. I'm running 832mb now and it's like a whole new machine.
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Live with 9 and wait till you can upgrade. Cross you fingers and maybe X will get fast enough for your machine with X.2.</strong><hr></blockquote>
that's what i thought. thanks.