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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Padawan" data-source="post: 78378" data-attributes="member: 273">OS X runs extremely well on G3 machines.  In fact, I'm posting this right now from a 7 year old 300 MHz Beige G3 AIO, and it's running the latest version of OS X quite happily.  I also have a 900 MHz G3 iBook, and it has plenty of power for my needs, as well as all of the things you mentioned you'd be using your machine for.  Of course, the newer G4 machines have more power and performance, but I think you'd be perfectly happy with the iBooks you've been looking at.  As you said though, upgrading the RAM would be a good idea.  The dual USB "Snow" G3 iBooks ranged from 500 MHz to 900 Mhz.  The bus was increased to 100 MHz beginning with the 600 Mhz version.  The G4 iBook was introduced at 800 Mhz with a 133 MHz bus, and is now available up to 1.33 Ghz.</blockquote>