Mac OS X forum: G4 users may want to read my findings on Leopard

Some 1.o GHz, 768 RAM machine that you put Vista on.

I've heard that before but what to say to that person with some 100 MHz PC with 32MB RAM?

Sorry, let's let people who use old hardware keep using it and not enter into their debate. For me I enjoy the less than few year old hardware...

Bob

And we see the same effect on most combo's of old hardware and newer OSes. It's good your machine survived and is usable.

Have you considered looking at swapping out the old slow hard disk for a cheap speedup?

Bob

And one of my cheap boosts (PC or Mac) was to slip in the slightly faster 5400 RPM drive. Usually this gives more boost than they suspect since the cache in the drive as well as the RPM boost give the machine quite the payoff. I've used those 50 and under buck drives from geeks.com and newegg.com

Bob

I then have to worry about possible heat issues. Your choice. As to size there are web sites about that.

Bob

original AirPort Card, and not the Extreme. If I had known that, I would have bought one at the Apple Store on Friday .

http://lowendmac.com/imacs/imac17b.html

? The article says that they could have 7200 drives... Hmph... I can't find any info on the iMac about the speed, so I'm going to assume that it has the 7200rpm in it. System Profiler didn't give me much help.

Any tips?
Thanks,
-BMF

G4. The flat-panel. iFixit does only laptop and iPod stuff so it doesn't apply here. But thanks for the input. Apparently, I just need to up the RAM, get an AirPort Extreme card at Apple, find an iMac Bluetooth Module that I'm missing, and wipe the drive. Then I can get everything running right. My HD must be 7200rpm, since in the desktops, they're always that way, or at least, the current and more recent ones have been.

At least my G4 serves as a good testing machine for Leopard LOL. When I'm done with it, it'll last for quite a few more years I believe.
Thanks for your inputs,
-BMF

an AirPort Card when I get there. I need to get iLife and iWork to upgrade my Macs, and also so I can have them on disc when I wipe out my G4 and reinstall everything on a clean drive. Then I may buy some RAM for the G4, though it's expensive there. Another problem with the RAM is I have two PC2100 modules or something like that and for my iMac model, Apple is only offering the other 512MB PC2700 modules instead. I read you can't run both together, only one or the other. So I could plunk down $300 for 1GB of RAM when I could get another 512MB PC2100 stick somewhere else... not worth $300 at all, so I probably won't :-P.

I need a new Bluetooth module for it too, but I'll have to find it online. I think one site I found has them for the G4. I'll ask my Apple tech about some of that stuff. Too bad I can't just trade it in for a new 24 inch one . That would rock. 2.8Ghz and a bunch of loaded goodies... I can wait for the new Mac Pros and the new (hopefully coming) MacBooks without an optical drive or the 12 inch MBP. Who knows if they will come out soon, but I'm optimistic about Apple stuff.
Thanks for the inputs everyone,
-BMF

same time. I'm not interested in finding it out and possibly ruining my machine. Thanks or the tip though.
-BMF

I wish mine could have more RAM, but it's running okay. Leopard may run faster on yours since mine is older and has less RAM and USB 1.1. Lucky. I can only have 1GB of RAM on mine, and apparently, Grim was right about the backwards compatibility. My Apple techs told me that the G4 could actually take the faster, 2700 sticks since it runs the slower 2100 sticks, meaning it could take faster sticks and run okay but not the other away around. Hope you can understand my gibberish LOL.

Leopard works okay for mine, but it doesn't seem to like all the bells and whistles. I'm going to start to leave it running and working for awhile until it adjusts better. Then when I can, I'll go get a 512MB stick to fix it up some and get something for its no Wi-Fi problem. Now my techs say it can't take the Extreme cards, which I had thought before anyway. They suggested I get the Wireless Airport plugin thing that hops on networks and does the AirTunes thing. I may just have to do that though $100 isn't too nice. Oh well. Good luck with your G4, though don't expect it to cruise without a bruise LOL. Tiger runs much better on it I believe. I'll decide what to do with it once I clean out the drive and put some fresh installs on it.
-BMF