pretty decent iMac G4

[ironborn65]

I’m quite happy with this.
The colors of the picture are false, the Mac itself is pure white while the keyboard is terribly yellow, so a bit also the mouse. The speakers are perfect! Ah, I have the box.
I’m planning for RAM upgrade.
Any recommendations for the MacOS X upgrade?

 

[Byrd]

Nice, I'd go Mac OS X 10.4 on it (good bridge OS between old and new) or 10.3.9 for more speed

 

[Fred1212]

Nice score

 

[finkmac]

i would install mac os 10.1

 

[mac27]

I've had good luck retr0briting these keyboards, though they are a fair bit of work to disassemble completely to isolate the plastic backing plate that needs the treatment.

Unfortunately the mice not so much; not clear there's a way to remove the acrylic shell reasonably.

 

[Unknown_K]

That's a perfect OS 9.2.2 machine to me. I have a later G4 1.25 Ghz widescreen iMac that is OSX only but would love to run OS 9 on it if I could.

 

[Fred1212]

Yes 9.2.2 runs really well on these

 

[ironborn65]

I've updated it to 10.3.9, and it seems to fly pretty well to me. I read different suggestions here about downgrading it to even 9.2.2 or 10.1, why?
But yes, it depends on how I want to use it
At the moment it will sit in the livingroom to show its nice design and to let friends play music coming from my NAS.

I've disassembled the keyboard, and the retrobright is ongoing.
The mouse is a problem. I've not found a non-invasive technique to disassemble it.
Still, I have to update the RAM.

 

[MacUp72]

the unofficial 10.5.9 Sorbet Leopard is also nice, I have this on my 12" G4 PowerBook

Sorbet Leopard Revision 1.5 - Macintosh Garden

Imagine if Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard was released for the PowerPC architecture. Aging machines would have received a much-needed boost in performance, software updates would have carried on for a little bit further, and instrumental features would have been newly claimed -- resulting in...

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or Shuriken

 

[finkmac]

windows xp gold edition type beat

 

[Snial]

I've updated it to 10.3.9, and it seems to fly pretty well to me. I read different suggestions here about downgrading it to even 9.2.2 or 10.1, why?
But yes, it depends on how I want to use it
At the moment it will sit in the livingroom to show its nice design and to let friends play music coming from my NAS.

I've disassembled the keyboard, and the retrobright is ongoing.
The mouse is a problem. I've not found a non-invasive technique to disassemble it.
Still, I have to update the RAM.

10.3.9 will feel great compared with 10.2.x. I only use versions of Mac OS X I actually have copies for, or the version that came with the Mac, but you might be happy with downloading Mac OS X 10.4. For my (Dad's) 1GHz G4 iMac 15", I run 10.4. Because Apple seemed to do tock/tick style OS upgrades; 10.3.9, I think is more of a performance upgrade and 10.4 is more of a feature (tock) upgrade. Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) was also a tock upgrade, but Snow Leopard was a performance improvement.

The advantage with 10.4.x over 10.3.x is that there's lots more software for it and although it's not as light as 10.3.x, it's relatively nippy, and will work in 256MB fairly well (that's the same RAM as on my (Dad's) iMac G4).