PowerMac 7300 + Mac OS 9.2.2 = true or false?
Does a PowerMac 7300, 200MHz, 160Mb boot the last version of Mac OS 9? On Apple-History it says that it only boots Mac OS 9.1 but I thought that I would ask you guys, seeing as there are no computers there labeled to boot 9.2.2 as a maximum system. Also, would it be worth it to install 9 on it, seeing as it currently runs Mac OS 8.6?
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!
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Originally posted by KANE
Does a PowerMac 7300, 200MHz, 160Mb boot the last version of Mac OS 9? On Apple-History it says that it only boots Mac OS 9.1 but I thought that I would ask you guys, seeing as there are no computers there labeled to boot 9.2.2 as a maximum system. Also, would it be worth it to install 9 on it, seeing as it currently runs Mac OS 8.6?
Thanks in advance!
It just might.... but I read somewhere that 9.2.2 needed at least a G3 system.
But personally, I'd just stick with OS 8.6. It's awesome.
Originally posted by Luca Rescigno
But personally, I'd just stick with OS 8.6. It's awesome.
Are you being sarcastic or do you really think OS 8.6 is "awesome"? I thought it would be hard to find anyone on these boards (except Mandolux, perhaps) that currently labels anything pre-Jaguar as "awesome"!
Would a PowerMac 7300 200MHz 160Mb run OS 8.6 acceptably? I'm thinking of picking up a used one, for the pennies in my pocket.
8.6 is stable, ultra-fast, has many of the good features that are in OS 9, and it still has a non-crappy Find system. With OS 9, Apple released one of their worst kludges of a software program - Sherlock 2. Sherlock 1 in OS 8 was basically Find File with a web search tacked on. But Sherlock 2 is complete with a really terrible-looking metal interface, a big launch time, terrible responsiveness, and ADS built into the program! Yes, believe it or not, there are ads for Apple stuff in a little bottom panel of Sherlock 2.
The only other feature OS 9 really added (that I can remember) was voice passwords (totally, completely useless, which is why they are no longer in OS X). Multiple users, keychain, software update, standard views, contextual menus, the tear-off application menu, and appearance themes were all a part of OS 8.6. OS 9 adds no useful features.