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What OS can eMac 350mhz take?
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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I'm thinking of buying an iMac 350mhz / 320mb Blueberry off of ebay. I was wondering if this will take OS Panther? The unit comes with OS 9 and the only Mac OS I'm familiar with is OS X Panther, but would settle for an earlier OS X if Panther is no good for this Mac. I just don't want to use OS 9.
Thanks.
Oh, also... what kind of ram and how much can these units take? Same regular PC100 SDRAM as for PCs?
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: chillin with Billy, James, D'Arcy and Jimmy
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It should run Panther.
I've seen an iMac 266mhz with 256mb RAM running 10.3.9.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Seattle, WA
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Panther for sure... Tiger will run if it's an iMac DV with firewire.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Denton, TX
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It'll run panther but it's not much fun. Not to mention you'll definitely want to upgrade the hard drive and RAM. I'm running 10.3.9 on a 333mhz with a 40gig 7200rpm HD and 192MB of RAM and it's pretty slow. Spend your money on a mac mini and get a cheap flat panel. I think you'll have a better experience unless you're using that iMac for a home server or something.
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Moderator  Join Date: Apr 2000
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What do you mean, "not much fun"? It runs fine, if you have enough RAM. That machine also has the officially supported Rage 128 chip - much better graphics performance than the Rage Pro, due to better drivers. 192 MB is NOT enough RAM, however. 384 megs is more like it.
The iMac uses regular PC100 SDRAM. PC133 works, it's backwards compatible. Official maximum is 512 megs - more might work, if you use bigger DIMMs, but is untested.
Don't know if Tiger will work, but it should, sinc it's the same chipset as the Tiger-compatible iMac DV.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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I run Panther on my iMac (see sig for specs).
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Ive got a 333mhz iMac with 192mb of ram running Panther with no problems. It is a little slow, but since it only gets used for kids games that doesnt matter to me. When i was useing it daily it had 384mb of ram and worked great.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Illinois might be cold and flat, but at least it's ugly.
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More Ram and Panther should be just fine.
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Canberra, Australia
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My parents have a 350 MHz iMac with 1GB (2 x 512MB), 80GB 7200rpm drive running Tiger.
It is slow but it gets there in the end and in some ways the computer just takes as much time to grind through its computing as Mum & Dad!
Good luck!
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Geoff Crane
eMac 1.42/2048/160/SD-DL/APE
iBook 600/640/20/DVD/AP
AlBook 1.25/1024/60/SD/APE/BT (that work own...)
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Ive got a 400MHz iMac DV with 256MB ram running 10.4 Tiger and its sweet
Good Luck!
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