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Last iBook to boot 9?
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I'm looking to buy an iBook but it has to boot 9. Trying to find which was the last one.
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900 mhz g3. search. search. search.
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Originally posted by drewm:
I'm looking to buy an iBook but it has to boot 9. Trying to find which was the last one.
thanks
Just curious... why hell do you need to boot with OS 9?
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I've been unable to get the Keyspan Serial Adapter to work in X with Virtual PC. Works fine in 9. I run an editor for a digital mixer that I use. It's PC only so I use VPC and it uses a serial connection to talk to the board.
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The iBook G3/900 is your best bet. It has decent performance even under Mac OS X, and you get to play games at a little bit better performance when run under Mac OS 9.x. 
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I just purchased one of these and they run OSX really well. You can get one for a bargan, too.
Upgrade the RAM for about $150 or less by adding a 512MB SODIMM in it and you be much happier. I bought mine from www.microcenter.com
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Originally posted by bluedog:
I just purchased one of these and they run OSX really well. You can get one for a bargan, too.
Upgrade the RAM for about $150 or less by adding a 512MB SODIMM in it and you be much happier. I bought mine from www.microcenter.com
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Grant
All I see are G4 iBooks.
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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Originally posted by drewm:
All I see are G4 iBooks.
Try Smalldog. They'll probably have some left in stock. Look for or ask for the "Dual Boot" G3 ibooks.
I bought one at Xmas because I still use OS 9 to get work done -- OS X is fun to play with occasionally, but I find it worse than Windows for actually working and keeping up with file locations, system status, networking, etc. Painful.
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally posted by drewm:
I'm looking to buy an iBook but it has to boot 9. Trying to find which was the last one.
thanks
I have a used 12" iBook G3 900Mhz in perfect working order with only cosmetic blemishes on the case. PM me if you're interested. I haven't posted a FS thread yet as I'm still only thinking about putting it up for sale.
EDIT: Never mind. I'm going to keep this thing until further notice.
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Last edited by shrink; Apr 13, 2004 at 11:32 AM.
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the 900 mhz G3 iBook has pretty decent VPC performance. still, i would suggest using Win98.
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