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SpaceBoy
Full Member
USA
631 Posts |
 Posted - 09 Dec 2002 : 13:17:14
Well, Courtney, my much-loved girlfriend, is getting a brand-spankin' new, 14" iBook (it should arrive today...), and I'm gonna get her 'old' 300 mHz Tangerene Clamshell iBook! It's not a gift- I wouldn't feel right just taking something so cool, so I'm giving her something close to the average going price for these things, but still, I'm psyched!
Anyway, I've got a couple of questions:
First, this thing has OS 9 on it (soon to be 9.2.x), but I'm sorely tempted to try putting OS X 10.2.2 on here... has anyone tried such a thing? I know I'm gonna need more RAM (it's only got 128 megs at the moment), and the hard drive is gonna get mighty cramped (it's the stock, Rev. B 6-gig drive), but I'm still thinking that OS X would be usable. Any feedback?
Second, has anyone here tried to manually upgrade the hard drive on an older Clamshell? I've read up on it, and the task seems a bit daunting, but I can't see a time when I could afford to have MCE (or anyone else) install one for me... Any ideas?
Okay, thanks, folks!
:-)
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GORDOOM
Junior Member
Canada
208 Posts |
Posted - 09 Dec 2002 : 13:21:13
(You and Courtney are still together? Hurrah!)  6 GB for an OS X install would probably be usable, if barely. However, running OS X on an 800x600 display is going to be mighty cramped. I would probably suggest staying with OS 9, if you can afford to do so. (And why'd Courtney go and get a 14-incher? Why not just the 12-incher?) GORDOOM
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asan9000
New Member
USA
59 Posts |
Posted - 09 Dec 2002 : 14:39:17
Yeah, well, neener neener to you - I've got an iBook DV (the only one that looked halfway.... buiseness-worthy)Mine has 10.1.5 running, and it works just fine. Entirely usable - in fact, I don't really notice any difference between it and my iMac. And since Jaguar is supposed to be faster, it should run great as well.
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foetoid
Full Member
USA
554 Posts |
Posted - 09 Dec 2002 : 21:27:57
well neener neener neener, I'm gonna get an iBook in 13 years when they're way obsolete!________________
foetoid, that's (fee-toy-duh)
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FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
USA
1559 Posts |
Posted - 13 Dec 2002 : 19:22:31
upgrading iBook hd:
http://caslis.com/mac/ibook/ibdrive.html
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