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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2001
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I'm planning on installing Jaguar on my wife's iMac soon because she wants to use Mail and Safari instead of Eudora and IE. Are there any issues with installing on this machine (I know about the 8 gig. partition thing)? Any suggestions on how I might improve the performance a little on this admittedly antiquated and slow machine?
Thanks.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Washington, DC
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Quick Answer: RAM... and lots of it...
Longer Answer: Make sure you have at least a few gigs sitting around. When you run low on HD space, OS X starts freaking out and you will have potential issues.
Keep the system as clean as you can. It will run, and it shouldn't be all that bad.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: London, UK
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If you can, and are up to cracking her open, I'd also highly recommend a newer, bigger, faster rpm (e.g. 7200) hard drive along with the RAM
Alternatively, do those iMacs have a FireWire port (I forget)? If they do, you can buy a 7200rpm external HD instead, install Jag onto the external and boot from there.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: BFE
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I have an iMac 233 running Jaguar with 512MB RAM and a 30GB 7200 Drive.
The system is still a little slow. Some navigation has a slight delay before the window clicks, moves, refreshes, etc. It's not unusable, but worse than my 500MHz Pismo was with 10.1.
I'm waiting for Panther before I really decide to go back to 9 since reports are increases on all OSX capable systems (except Beige G3s which are not supported).
Verdict: Useable, but not smooth.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Aiken, South Carolina, USA
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u kno u can get procesor upgrades right?
for the old imacs at least, or a chip/ firewire combo upgrade for the orignal iMac
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Maine
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I know this is probably a little out there, but my suggestion is: Get an eMac.
When you factor in how much Panther, RAM (you'll need a lot), a new harddrive, and a potential processor upgrade are gonna cost, it's not that much further of a jump to a lowend eMac.
If you can hold off until Panther is installed on the new eMacs, that's even better. Plus, your machine will have Firewire and will support Quartz Extreme. And you can even pay a little over base price and get a combo drive.
I understand this probably isn't realistic, but I just thought I'd throw it out there.
But, yeah, RAM is key. 
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