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extra G3... any suggestions?
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A friend of mind has decided to give me a pink G3, I don't know the specs yet, but does anyone have any good ideas on what I could do with this system, as far as running programs/upgrading, and possibly changing the color?
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Pink is fashionable for guys at the moment 
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they say pink is the new black
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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I have a Pink one. (Oooer Mrs.)
By the way it is called "Strawberry". Apparently in Cupertino, strawberries are pink.
See My Xbench stats for this little beastie. (BTW, this was done back int he days of 10.2.8!)
As for what you can do with it, I really don't know. I have an iMac G5 and an iBook G4 now. My little strawberry is plugged in, has Tiger installed, and runs great, but I don't know what to do with it.
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does tiger run on it well??? what are the specs?
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You probably are getting a 333mhz machine (though it could be a 266mhz). At any rate, if you want to run Tiger on it, you are going to need to make sure you have plenty of RAM (256 min) and a bigger hard drive than came stock with the machine. I personally love the old G3 CRT iMacs--they have a great look (pink or any other color). If you upgrade the RAM and HD, load Tiger, and get a high-speed internet connection, you've got a great web-surfing machine, and if you're getting it for free--- well, that's a good deal in my book.
Good Luck!
I, Macman
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I have an old powerbook with similar specs. 333 G3. I upgraded the RAM to 384, and the hard drive to 20 gig, and Panther runs just fine on it. Not screaming fast by any means, but more than fast enough to be usable. As far as Tiger, correct me if I'm mistaken, but wasn't this machine not supported by Tiger?
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Some pink *ahem* STRAWBERRY iMacs have Firewire. Apple didn't change the color scheme until mid-2000, with the introduction of 450 and 500 MHz iMacs. A Strawberry could either be a 266 or 333 MHz tray-loading iMac, or it could be a 400 MHz iMac DV, with Firewire and a DVD-ROM drive. In the latter case, it would be supported for Tiger.
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A good point Luca, and I didn't ask that key question--Tray-load or Slot load. I will say this about Tiger and "supportability." Apple says that you need Firewire to run Tiger . . . well .. . as far as I could tell that's only because they included a feature in Tiger where you can import all of your applications and settings from one Mac (with Firewire) to the Mac upon which you just loaded Tiger. If you're loading Tiger on a computer you are upgrading, it doesn't seem to me that you would need or use that feature. What Apple DOESN'T list on the side of the box under "Requirements" is something that is just above in the "Contents" section: "DVD containing Mac OS X . . ." Yes--as the guys at the Apple Store were kind enough to point out to me, Tiger comes on a DVD. So, if you have, as I do, a 600mhz slot-loading G3 iMac, you have a CDRW optical drive--not a DVD. Apple will swap out your DVD for a set of CDs, but it does cost you an extra $10 bucks or so. I am solving my problem by temporarily swapping out the CDRW with a DVD drive from one of my 400s, but if you have a tray loader-- you don't have that option. Also, according to the literature I have, the offer to swap out the Tiger DVD for CDs only exists until July 9, 2005. Sooo . . . once again Apple is telling us 'legacy" Mac users that . . . well--maybe we're more trouble to support than we're worth. Too bad I say--Apple should pay attention to the used Mac market. With the low-end no-risk prices, that's where a lot of PC users come in to test the waters and, perhaps, begin their conversion.
Thanks for reading,
I, Macman
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Actually the firewire requirement has to do with the fundamental architecture of the computers that would be supported. It's similar to how they said USB was required for Panther, even you didn't intend to use a USB device.
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Hmmmm .. . so I guess I have a question now .. . . has anyone loaded Tiger on a tray-loading iMac? if so, how is it working out?
Just trying to learn as much as I can about what is possible . ..
Thanks,
I, Macman
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