[psilocybenine]

I have a pink iMac that I haven't touched for a long time... I have 10.3.9 on it now but I was thinking of upgrading it to 10.4.x anyone try this? it's a 333mhz 384mb imac no airport card...

i remember when "classic" versions of Mac OS were around you could get away with running a "new" os on a slow or old computer by deleting control panels and extensions you didn't need or weren't using... I haven't had the need to do this on my MacBook with 10.5 or any other version of X i've ran before so i don't even know how difficult or possible that would be with the "next gen" os

[P]

You generally can't do that. Specifically for 10.4, you can disable the Dashboard which otherwise eats quite a bit of RAM, but that is pretty much it. Tricks exist for disabling Spotlight, but if you do that, I don't see why you upgraded in the first place. Spotlight and Dashboard are the two big reasons to run 10.4.

I'm running 10.4 on a slotloading iMac G3/400MHz, although with 512 MB of RAM. This machine has had everything from 9.0 up to and including 10.4.11. After switching to OS X, it got faster with every upgrade until the switch from 10.3 to 10.4 - that was a step down, because it was running out of RAM. It wasn't too bad, and I've kept it on 10.4, but it was a definite step down.

If I were you, I'd stay on 10.3 unless there was some feature in 10.4 I really needed. If I really had to move to 10.4, I'd upgrade the RAM first.

[psilocybenine]

yeah that was exactly the answer i was looking for...

I recently gave a friend of my sister's some advice as to why it might be worth it to pay nearly double for a mac... i mentioned resale value, ease of use, quality of software, reliability, virus immunity but because I'm constantly updating for a new mac (about every 2 years) I didn't realize how long a mac is actually viable (i guess that's part of the reason why it keeps such a high resale value)

It's kinda amazing that near stock, far from top of the line, mac can run an os 8 years it's age just fine

I'm thinking of selling the little one... how much could one reasonably sell one for? I was thinking 100, i'm not undercutting myself am i?

[bballe336]

Mac2sell.net says that your imac is worth $90, however I think thats being very optimistic.