RAM for a mac

[borat_sagdiyev]

so im getting this mac off ebay, and its a g3 400mhz with 128 mb ram. i was thinking to upgrade it to at least 512 and install osx 10.4. I have a few sticks of pc133 ram lieing around here. would it fit?

 

[joe pic]

os 10 on 400mhz?......

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

yes. believe it or not, our school runs os 10 on some that are 333mhz with 128mb ram.

/feels ashamed for school

 

[lhuser]

No actually their 400MHZ is sufficient to run OS 10.4. You see, it's not RAM and CPU eaten alive by Windows. Something Bill Gates forgot to do

 

[joe pic]

whoa! X on 333MHz? my school has the eMacs. the $1000 models. they got 512 mb of ram, 1ghz pcu, and radeon 9600... or 9200, i dont remember. but how does 10 run on 333mhz?....

 

[lhuser]

read post above

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

ya, we also got 800mhz emacs with 256mb ram, and two with 1ghz and 512mb ram, and they run pretty nice

 

[joe pic]

yeah, i did. sorry, i posted that right before you posted yours. just look at the time. they were both posted at 9:04PM

 

[lhuser]

yeah, i did. sorry, i posted that right before you posted yours. just look at the time. they were both posted at 9:04PM

Right timing my friend


Again, OS 10.x series are not that demanding. A G3 would equal to around a Celeron 600MHZ and an AMD Duron 550-633MHZ

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

so would the G3 400mhz be equal to around 700-800mhz intel style?