Women in Technology

Article:		OS 9, Mine, All Mine
Subject:		"It would cost a couple of thousand for two new machines"
Date:		2004-07-25 09:42:03
From:		williamr
No, it would cost a couple of hundred to upgrade the OS, and some of that they could claim back in taxable expenses. I write this on a G3 iMac that started life six years ago running 8.6, and is currently on 10.2 and never better. The only reason I haven't upgraded to 10.3 is that both 10.4 and an all-new iMac should be out later this year (metallic, angular and G5-powered I hope). I was never that convinced by Mac OS in the old days to be honest (I remember having to learn all about extension conflict resolution the first week I had the iMac), but I haven't stopped being thrilled with OS X since the day I upgraded.

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• "It would cost a couple of thousand for two new machines"
  2004-07-29 10:33:33  MSchienle [View]
  
  
  The 3400 laptop runs on a 603e chip, which is the generation of chips prior to the G3 that's in your iMac. MacOS X will not install on a 603e without using something like XPostFacto to tell the installer that the system has a different chip than it actually does, he's not really able to move to MacOS X.
  
  I used XPostFacto to run 10.1 and 10.2 on an old upgraded PowerMac 7500 (G3/400) for a bit, but eventually gave the system away after many years of great service.