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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 604746" data-attributes="member: 3889"><p>The info you've provided shows that the machine is more than capable of running OS X, probably the newest version, Leopard. If not, it certainly would run Tiger, which Leopard just replaced. It wouldn't run as fast as OS 9 does in your machine, but 9 is dead technology. It hasn't been updated in more than seven years. JavaScript and Flash are big problems.</p><p></p><p>Get rid of OS 9 because you don't know anything about it, anyway, and you probably don't have any of the third-party pay-money maintenance applications that are an absolute must with OS 9.</p><p></p><p>If you buy Tiger or Leopard, make sure it's the full retail version that will load in any machine, not one of a myriad of model-specific versions that ship with each model Mac. OS X on a disk that shipped with an iMac or a PowerBook, for example, won't load in your machine. So beware of "deals" on eBay.</p><p></p><p>If you can save 9, though, by burning it to a disk or something, it might be worth it, as a sort of hobby/conversation piece. OS 9 doesn't need an installer, so even if you save only the system folder — and if you want to, an application or two or three (or all of them) — 9 will run again just by dragging the system folder onto a drive (though like OS X, it might be model-specific and might not run in anything but a tower).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Study, post: 604746, member: 3889"] The info you've provided shows that the machine is more than capable of running OS X, probably the newest version, Leopard. If not, it certainly would run Tiger, which Leopard just replaced. It wouldn't run as fast as OS 9 does in your machine, but 9 is dead technology. It hasn't been updated in more than seven years. JavaScript and Flash are big problems. Get rid of OS 9 because you don't know anything about it, anyway, and you probably don't have any of the third-party pay-money maintenance applications that are an absolute must with OS 9. If you buy Tiger or Leopard, make sure it's the full retail version that will load in any machine, not one of a myriad of model-specific versions that ship with each model Mac. OS X on a disk that shipped with an iMac or a PowerBook, for example, won't load in your machine. So beware of "deals" on eBay. If you can save 9, though, by burning it to a disk or something, it might be worth it, as a sort of hobby/conversation piece. OS 9 doesn't need an installer, so even if you save only the system folder — and if you want to, an application or two or three (or all of them) — 9 will run again just by dragging the system folder onto a drive (though like OS X, it might be model-specific and might not run in anything but a tower). [/QUOTE]
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