Mac OS X and iBook...

[PureEvil]

Here's the plan:

I wanna buy a cheapo laptop for school (basically just for writing, it would be), and I was wondering if Mac OS X would run smoothly with an iBook of these specs:

700MHz PowerPC G3
512K L2 cache @700MHz
128MB SDRAM memory
20GB Ultra ATA drive
ATI Radeon 7500
16MB dedicated video memory
CD-ROM
Built-in 56K v.92 modem
AirPort ready
Up to 5 hr. battery life

It comes with OS X and such, and it fits the minimum specs of course, but just barely. I don't need it to do anything spectacular, pretty much just school-related writings and stuff, but would the little iBook be overly bogged down running with OS X?

[GameMaster]

It's great to see you're getting an Apple.

Anyway, to answer your question, that iBook has about the same specs as my 2.5 year old iMac DV and I'm running OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). And it runs great on my iMac. Fast considering the age and specs. I say go right ahead, for your purposes, it'll be fine. I think you'll be impressed.

[gekko]

Well you do know buying a cheapo laptop will give cheapo performance. It will work, yes. Don't know if I can go any further than that

My sister has a 700mhz iBook, but it's not running Jaguar, it's running 10.1 still, so I don't have first hand experience using it.

Now, If you have some additional cash, I'd give it a tad more RAM, and if you have more cash than that, go with the next model up, with the combo drive. Without a CD-R, you would need some kind of external drive, or network to transfer the files on, if you need to.

Also, I need to check to see if you woul support Quartz Extreme, because without it, it'll put a bigger load on the processer. Do you know GameMaster?

[GameMaster]

Anything Rage 128 or higher should work. The iBook's come preloaded with Jaguar so I'm assumig the Quartz Extreme works on them.

[DaBigDeezy]

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