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Tiger on a 603/604??

Maybe, but Tiger on a machine with a 200-300MHz 603 is gonna be really slow, not to mention the 128meg RAM limit. I'll be keeping mine on 9.1 :p

 
I don't know. The guy who wrote the article is running it on a 132 mhz 604 and doesn't complain about it being slow. A 6500 running at a higher clock rate should be able to keep up even if it is a 603 chip. Remember that the 603 is faster than it is normally given credit for being as it was in those crappy x200 machines that held it back for so long.

 
Oh, believe me, I know. My 6500/225 is a speedy little guy for the most part. I just don't think that it would make an amazing Tiger machine. Besides, I've been using mine as my dedicated Classic PPC machine anyway. It's my little, browser-challenged friend :)

 
The difference is IE on the Mac is no longer being supported. iCab is and is probably the only browser that runs under classic that is still being updated and improved. My only complaint is it still chokes on any page that makes use of CSS. As long as iCab has been around, this should not still be an issue, even under classic.

 
Good luck getting OS X installed on a 6500. I've been trying for days. Now it's a last ditch effort of installing it on another Mac and moving the HD into the 6500/300...

That said, I've run 10.2.8 on a 9600/400 (604e 350 overclocked to 400 MHz). It runs fine, but it still seems slow compared to a G3.

Peace,

Drew

 
Good luck getting OS X installed on a 6500. I've been trying for days. Now it's a last ditch effort of installing it on another Mac and moving the HD into the 6500/300...
That said, I've run 10.2.8 on a 9600/400 (604e 350 overclocked to 400 MHz). It runs fine, but it still seems slow compared to a G3.

Peace,

Drew
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How do you O/C the CPU boards on a PCI PM???

 
I'm still trying to think of what big Mac project I should do this summer in my free time...maybe this will be it.

Kind of jumping back and forth with an iMac 233 in a different case, learning Cocoa, and now this. I still have 23 days, 1 hour, 6 mins, and 35 seconds to decide :p

 
I'm still trying to think of what big Mac project I should do this summer in my free time...maybe this will be it.
Kind of jumping back and forth with an iMac 233 in a different case, learning Cocoa, and now this. I still have 23 days, 1 hour, 6 mins, and 35 seconds to decide :p
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I wanna get OS 9 to run in Rosetta on a MB :p

 
That said, I've run 10.2.8 on a 9600/400 (604e 350 overclocked to 400 MHz). It runs fine, but it still seems slow compared to a G3.
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How do you O/C the CPU boards on a PCI PM???
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The old fashioned way: With a soldering iron. 350 to 400 MHz is actually pretty easy to do and pretty reliable. The CPU only runs a little hotter (maybe 10 - 15 F).

Peace,

Drew

 
Good luck getting OS X installed on a 6500. I've been trying for days. Now it's a last ditch effort of installing it on another Mac and moving the HD into the 6500/300...
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I got OS X 10.1 running on my 6500. I think it's still installed actually. It's very slow and does not seem to use the G3 card at all. Some stuff does not work but I think ethernet might have worked?

 
Good luck getting OS X installed on a 6500. I've been trying for days. Now it's a last ditch effort of installing it on another Mac and moving the HD into the 6500/300...
That said, I've run 10.2.8 on a 9600/400 (604e 350 overclocked to 400 MHz). It runs fine, but it still seems slow compared to a G3.

Peace,

Drew
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Have you tried using the 603/604 aware kernal that this guy links to in his article? I think that's probably the key.

 
No.

I eventually installed 10.2 on an IDE hard drive in a biege G3 then moved the drive to the 6500. It works like a charm. See my thread on the PPCMLA for details. http://www.ppcmla.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=164

More power to the guy for running Tiger on a 132 MHz 604. That's cool, and it gets him some geek cred. So for pure geek factor, there is some value in what he did. But if you aren't a geek, you've got to be shaking your head and thinking "why bother?"

Before you say something about pots calling kettles black, I fully acknowledge that there's not much point to running 10.2 on a 6500. I did it for the challenge, and I don't suffer from any delusions about the 6500 being a useful OS X box.

Peace,

Drew

 
I want to get OS X running on my 6500 and as many of my older machines as possible, not for geek cred, but purely out of self preservation. There really doesn't seem to be much that I can see happening on the classic OS front in terms of new software development, not even in the shareware/freeware area, so OS X seems to be a necessity rather than an option.

 
There are thousands and thousands of software titles for your older PPC Macs. Your 6500 is exactly as capable as it was the day you bought it. And more functional if you consider all the apps that were written between then and now.

I don't understand this fixation on having the newest and greatest software.

Peace,

Drew

 
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