The New G4 Macs

[Simon Lord]

Dude, would you trust reading crap from Microsoft?

Ray, I have 2 G4's and everything works fine, dual boot between 
both OS's is easy, running Classic inside OSX works great too.  
Learning OSX is not that hard from OS9.  The buttons, text and 
UI is generally larger but that's ok (I run my screen at 
1920x1024 and need more room still!).  Keyboard and mouse are 
flimsy compared to "old yellow", no one will ever make a 
keyboard that heavy again.  The only problem with the keyboard 
is that the characters fade after a few months (have to be a 
hardcore typer though).

Mouse, don't care much for it.  Just buy *any* USB mouse and 
plug it in.  They all work, I've gone through 4 mice already 
(finally settled on a trackball which greatly reduced pain in my 
right arm).

All software *will* require upgrading unless you choose to run 
them in Classic under OSX - no problem there.  Mind you, you'll 
need 512mb RAM.  After having three G4's running OSX I have 
determined that 512mb RAM is where OSX starts to really perform 
like a rock star.

For those of you out there with OSX, do yourself a favour and 
put your swap on another disk, you'll get a 33% speed boost.  
It's seriously a massive difference.

All your peripherals should be fine, I still have scsi cards in 
my G4 running old scsi zip drives and a scsi2 Nikon scanner.  
Works fine, new drivers from Adaptec even allow for deep sleep.

As for learning OSX completely, just go to this site:  
http://www.macosxhints.com and search for anything you want (I 
host them :) you'll find all your answers there!

Have fun, and welcome to OSX!


On Wednesday, April 24, 2002, at 05:49 PM, Klaus Major wrote:

> Hi Ray
>
>> Hi listers,
>>
>> It's time for me to retire my Trusty 9500 Mac (twice upgraded 
>> and currently a G3
>> 300mz with a blurry, blue-streaked 17 inch monitor) to a 
>> shinny, new G4, but I'm
>> not really thrilled at the prospect of developing software 
>> under MOS X+....
>>
>> • So do these new wonder-toys of Mr. Jobs still run MOS 9+ as 
>> well as MOS X?
>>
>> • Will all my software require upgrading (Ex. Illustrator 8.0, 
>> Photoshop 3.5,
>> PageMaker 7.0, Excel 4.0, Claris/AppleWorks 5.0 r1)?
>>
>> • Can I salvage all those things hanging off the end of Trusty 
>> 9500 that are NOT
>> hotWire or whatTheLastestConnection device is (like HP 
>> Scanner, Apple LaserWriter
>> 2g, numerous HDs)?
>>
>> • Is the learning curve of MOS X somewhat under 12 months?
>>
>> • Is the keyboard and mouse as flimsy as the pictures show?
>>
>> Ray G. Miller
>
> try this:
>
> www.apple.com
>
> ;-)
>
> Regards
>
>
> Klaus Major
> k_major at osnabrueck.netsurf.de
>
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