[muglo] Re: OS X running on mac clone

>
>I agree that a PCI Mac can be upgraded to OS X with some satisfactory
>success, however, I'd suggest that if you want to run OS X as your primary
>OS, that you get at least a Beige G3/233 and use it as your start point.
>Even better, get a bottom-of-the-line B&W G3/300 or /350 and upgrade it with
>the G3/500 CPU. They're a touch more expensive than the PCI clone, but they
>have a huge advantage in that Apple actively supports them, and, the B&W
>uses IDE on its internal HD and CD-ROM bus so you have Apple-supported
>access (i.e. no IDE card required/ROM boot support) to cheap IDE HDs (& they
>are *much* cheaper than their SCSI counterparts) and CD-RWs.
>
>That said, you probably paid $200-500 less than you would've had you done
>the same to a bottom-of-the-line B&W or a Beige G3. Congrats!!!

A beige G3??? Why would I want one? 3 measly ram slots (168 pin dimms 
so by your calculations about ram needed for X, a beige G3 couldnt 
even run it!). 3 pci slots... and room for what? one cd drive and 2 
hard drives?
My tower has 8 ram slots and maxes out at 1 gig of ram. It has 8 
total drive bays, 4 large bays and 4 small bays. And 6 pci slots....

I've never understood the attraction to the beige G3... IMO it's a 
very limited machine... and it still sells for far more than a G3 
upgraded older pci mac... which is just dumb.

The blue and white G3 is a nice machine... for sure... but I have a 
lot of scsi devices and serial devices that I like... and I know I 
could put a scsi card and serial card in a B&W, and I did consider 
it... but total cost would have been more than what I've put into the 
tower clone. And besides, I like the challenge of putting X on an 
older mac.

Maybe in a couple years when the B&W's are cheap, I'll get one....

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