[atomic101]

I want to get an Apple laptop. I still need to run Mac 0S9 but would like to have features such as a Superdrive and large HD that are in more recent models.

Can buy a new powerbook/ibook and install OS9 myself?
(by creating a partition maybe).

I know that there is a classic mode in OSX but i want to be able to run my older apps without any glitches on as new a laptop as possible.

Or would i be better to locate and buy a dual boot laptop ?
What was/is the most powerful 15" laptop that dual booted ?

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions ;-)

[Person Man]

Originally posted by atomic101:
I want to get an Apple laptop. I still need to run Mac 0S9 but would like to have features such as a Superdrive and large HD that are in more recent models.

Can buy a new powerbook/ibook and install OS9 myself?
(by creating a partition maybe).

I know that there is a classic mode in OSX but i want to be able to run my older apps without any glitches on as new a laptop as possible.

Or would i be better to locate and buy a dual boot laptop ?
What was/is the most powerful 15" laptop that dual booted ?

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions ;-)

Well, with the aluminum laptops, Apple stopped updating OS 9 to work with the motherboards (contrary to popular belief they did NOT "disable" something in the firmware to prevent booting up in OS 9). So, the only way to use OS 9 is to run it in classic. This is true for ALL the Aluminum PowerBooks (12", 15", 17"... even the "revision A" models).

The last (and most powerful) machine to be able to boot into OS 9 was the 1 GHz 15" Titanium PowerBook. The biggest hard drive available was 60 GB, and there was a SuperDrive option for it.

You can buy a bigger hard drive and install it yourself (it is a user-installable part on the Titanium machines, but NOT user installable on an Aluminum PB).

[atomic101]

Hey Person, THANK YOU ;-)

You answered my question totally !!! A Ti-Book will do me just fine.

You're a star !

thank you again

[Earth Mk. II]

It's a bit of a roundabout way of doing it, but if you install Linux on a newer mac (non OS 9 booting), you can run Mac on Linux on it, which can host any PPC compatible Mac OS version - from system 7.5.3 through X 10.3.5.

So, if you already have a machine that won't boot into 9 - this would probably be a less expensive route.

Unfortunately, MOL requires a linux kernel module to run. So porting it to Mac OS X is non-trivial.