2 posts tagged “g3”
Yesterday, I decided to work the whole day using the Mac. Ok, this was primarily, for website update (My current job is to configure a Drupal site). After that day, the power mac is slow, but wait, for web browsing, emailing and chatting, it's ok.
I also look at some tiny Apps, you could run on Panther. Here is the complete list of installed Mac Apps :
Internet
- Adium (Multiprotocol Instant Messaging),
- Camino (regret that is not compatible with Firefox, and crashes rather easily),
- Colloquy (IRC client, seems really slow),
- Cyberduck (FTP client),
- Firefox (Web Browser),
- Skype (Non standard VoIP App)
- Thunderbird (Mail deosn't seems to work anymore),
- Transmission (Nice bitTorrent client)
- iTunes (What ?),
- VLC (Multicodec Video player),
- mPlayer2 OSX (mplayer 1.0 OSX doesn't seems to work),
- Wham (lightweight music player)
- iPhoto (even it's really way too slow)
- the Gimp (open source Photoshop like)
- Jalbum (a website gallery builder)
Text
- Smultron (nice little texte editor)
- Freemind (a mind mapping tool in Java)
- NeoOffice (OpenOffice for Mac, still heavy to run)
System
In test
- TextWrangler (another text editor.. have to choose between the 2),
- Xchat Aqua (known on linux and windows.. let's try it on OSX !)
Guess, what, a friend of mine "found" a dying Apple iMac G3, somewhere to be thrown in any bin. He got it back home, and just gave me for some days, I could try to look at it and update it. This Mac is for his 11 years old daughter.
After a quick tour of the beast, it's a "Bondi blue" iMac G3. Here are some characteristics of it :
- Translucent blue-green plastic
- CD ROM has a drawer (no slot-in)
- 96 MB of RAM
- OS 8.5
- Motherboard revision A
- PPC G3 @ 266MHz
I installed with no problem, OS 9.2.1 from CD, then update it to 9.2.2 by downloading from the Apple website. Now, it has only 96 MB of RAM, I would not even try to install OS X on it. Though I trid to booth the OS X CDs, it took 30 min to get the starting screen. There's definitively not enough RAM.
I check on website which says that Revision A iMac cant handle more than 256 MB of RAM. The same site is also telling that these iMac are using laptop's type of RAM, and only one slot is available (SO-DIMM PC266). I don't think we will add some more ram, as it's an old computer and the ram will be rather expensive for it....
Now the big question is :
What can be done with this computer today ?
I search the web for some freeware for OS 9, and already installed the following :
- Windows Media Player 7
- Text-Edit Plus
- MSN Messenger 7.5
- Adion (MP3 player)
