mac g4 OS upgrade 77 Responses

Last post: 6 months ago | Thread started: Jun 5, 08, 3:02 a.m.

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• johnnnnyh

  I've got an old mac powerbook G4 running OSX version 10.2. It's only got 500Mb ram and a speed of about 667hz - will it upgrade to the new OSX and is it worth doing so or should I just leave it to die?

  Jun 5, 08, 3:02 a.m. – Permalink

• alvaromqz

  better leave it

  

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  Dog-earJun 5, 08, 3:06 a.m. – Permalink

• Raniator

  Snow Leopard.

  'Nuff said.

  

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  Dog-earJun 5, 08, 3:08 a.m. – Permalink

• ESKEMA

  leave it. if you upgrade he will get very slow. I have a Emac 800 with 1 gb ram at home with 10.4.11 and I'm thinking to reinstall 10.3. My main issue is how browsers are painfully slow

  

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  Dog-earJun 5, 08, 3:27 a.m. – Permalink

• rson

  Do not upgrade. I did last month and machine overheated and blow up. Buy a new machine

  • dramatic!– duckofrubber

  

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  Dog-earJun 5, 08, 3:29 a.m. – Permalink

• johnnnnyh

  OK - I have a new machine I just felt like tidying everything up and running it all on the same OS.
  I'll leave it to run presentations or something!!
  Cheers

  

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  Dog-earJun 5, 08, 3:31 a.m. – Permalink

• Dancer

  I have a PB G4 867 with 1GiG'o'RAM
  Running OSX.4.1

  OS runs fine it's CS2 with InD, Illy and PS open at the same time that slows it down

  Up ya ram and I reckon it will fine

  

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  Dog-earJun 5, 08, 3:40 a.m. – Permalink

• modern

  I used to have a PB G4 800, 512 meg of ram running 10.4 and it wasn't bad at all for Photoshop/Illustrator. The powerbooks are much faster than eMacs, big L3 caches and other stuff.

  Forget flash though thats pretty shit on anything below a G5 because its so badly programmed.

  

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  Dog-earJun 5, 08, 4:10 a.m. – Permalink