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Best way to upgrade Dual 500 G4
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<blockquote data-quote="Avalon" data-source="post: 43819" data-attributes="member: 5184"><p>Well, your dual G4 IS still good...except for gaming <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Concerning your Powerbook, how much RAM do you have? And also a system upgrade to 10.3 would be a good idea. A friend of mine has a Powermac G4 450Mhz (single) that had 10.1 installed. it was very sluggish and slow. After I upgraded it to 10.3 (and 768MB Ram instead of 256MB) it runs pretty smooth.</p><p></p><p>"Dual boot" means you can boot the machine with either OS 9 or OS X.</p><p>Running Classic in Mac OS X is actually running OS 9 in an emulator, which also is memory hungry, and some OS 9 software doesn't run good or at all in Classic mode.</p><p>If you want to work properly with an OS 9 application, especially a game, boot the computer in OS 9. You will see that performance is much better.</p><p></p><p>The more recent Macs cannot dual-boot anymore, they can only run OS 9 in Classic mode. This has nothing to do with the OS X version, but with the hardware.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Avalon, post: 43819, member: 5184"] Well, your dual G4 IS still good...except for gaming ;) Concerning your Powerbook, how much RAM do you have? And also a system upgrade to 10.3 would be a good idea. A friend of mine has a Powermac G4 450Mhz (single) that had 10.1 installed. it was very sluggish and slow. After I upgraded it to 10.3 (and 768MB Ram instead of 256MB) it runs pretty smooth. "Dual boot" means you can boot the machine with either OS 9 or OS X. Running Classic in Mac OS X is actually running OS 9 in an emulator, which also is memory hungry, and some OS 9 software doesn't run good or at all in Classic mode. If you want to work properly with an OS 9 application, especially a game, boot the computer in OS 9. You will see that performance is much better. The more recent Macs cannot dual-boot anymore, they can only run OS 9 in Classic mode. This has nothing to do with the OS X version, but with the hardware. [/QUOTE]
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