How should I go About switching to Jaguar?

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in macOS edited January 2014
I have

a 450Mhz G4

with 768Mb of RAM

and the ATY Rage 128Pro Video card which came with it. I'm interested in Music, MIDI & Audio and plan to buy Cubase SX when it is available for Mac.



Is it worth me buying Jaguar yet? And is my Video card compatible with Quartz Extreme?



I have only been running Mac OS 10.1.5 for a month or so and before that I was running Mac OS 9.1 and did a completely clean install of Mac OS 10.1.5. So what would be the best way for me to switch to the next OS? Upgrade, or another clean install? What is an archive install and how effective is this?



Andrew

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    The Rage 128 will not do Quartz Extreme, but you'll still be able to use Jaguar just fine. QE does not hinder the system if it can't be utilized (there's a commonly held misconception about this). If you do want to upgrade you graphics card, any of the ATI Radeons will work. Also, nVidia's GeForce2 MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 MX, and GeForce4 Ti support QE. All of these cards will perform better than your current Rage 128, some a lot more than others. The card you choose needs to be an AGP card. PCI cards will not do Quartz Extreme. There is a hack to enable it for PCI, but it very heavily saturates the PCI bus (which would be very bad if you have other PCI cards) and may break with the next OSX update.



    I'd say go for it. If you're interested in music, then 10.2 is a must. From what I've heard, 10.2 includes several improvements to CoreAudio, but I'm no expert in that area so I couldn't explain it.



    The best installation option is the Archive option. That installs a clean version of your system and moves your old files into another folder. This is much like to the Clean Install option except that everything isn't erased. In theory, the Upgrade option should work fine, but several people have reported problems or slow-downs by choosing Upgrade instead on Archive or Clean.



    [ 09-14-2002: Message edited by: Brad ]</p>
  • Reply 2 of 3
    [quote]Originally posted by Brad:

    <strong>

    The best installation option is the Archive option.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Have to disagree. The best install option is to bite the bullet, add another hard drive and put 10.2 on it. That's what I did and I'm not seeing any of the problems others are reporting. It takes a bit more work to transfer stuff, but I managed in a couple of days. Using two hard drives is worth it for backups alone. If a drive goes, no big deal.
  • Reply 3 of 3
    [quote]Originally posted by gfeier:

    <strong>The best install option is to bite the bullet, add another hard drive and put 10.2 on it.</strong><hr></blockquote>Uh, okay. I suppose I should have said this is the best option without having to buy another hard drive or back up everything you have onto forty or fifty or more CDs. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />



    Really, the Archive option is completely safe and will work just as well as a Clean install in nearly all cases. I would only recommend a Clean install to someone who doesn't have many files to backup or to someone that is already planning on reformatting the drive.
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