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upgrading iBook blueberry OS
Name: lee292 Date: January 19, 2005 at 07:36:53 Pacific OS: OS 9.2 CPU/Ram: G3, 128Mb
Comment:
Wanted a low-budget notebook and bought an old blueberry clamshell iBook to take the plunge into the Mac world. It has no OS CD and I want to reload the OS to cure a pesky dial-up on reboot problem. Here's the rub. I'd like to upgrade to OS X because of its included firewall, but it needs a minimum of 128Mb. Can I load OS X and still have any room left to run anything, or do I need a memory upgrade before I do so?
Name: bobw Date: January 19, 2005 at 11:45:10 Pacific
Reply:
Even with 128, the bare minimum, it won't run well. You need at least 512MB to run OS X a little smooth on that machine.
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Response Number 2
Name: lee292 Date: January 20, 2005 at 07:54:06 Pacific
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Thanks. I think this iBook only supports memory of up to 320 Mb. Guess my best bet is to get an OS 9.2.2 OS disk on eBay. I'm mostly interested in getting a firewall to guard against trojans, spyware, etc. I've heard Macs are relatively immune to viruses.
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Response Number 3
Name: mac24.7.365 Date: January 20, 2005 at 16:43:44 Pacific
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Ya, I had an iBook blueberry 300 running Panther with 128mb of ram. Its really choppy and has tons of problems with hard drive space. I would recommend upgrading the hard drive to at least 6gb and updating the ram to its full 320mb. Best of luck.
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Response Number 4
Name: blackchicken Date: January 23, 2005 at 07:16:31 Pacific
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Running Panther on blueberry ibook, writting you on it, 288 ram 3 gig drive. The ram is fine, could use more though lots of spinny balls...you can always use more ram.Works fine for Word,Firefox,itunes I would get a bigger HD. I have a 40 gb I just got on ebay IBM travelstar that should fit..I think that will help things alot since OSX uses virtual RAM very nicely. Go for it unless you have money for a new book. Has worked fine for me since may 2004.
Peace
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Response Number 5
Name: lee292 Date: January 25, 2005 at 14:17:53 Pacific
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Wow, Chris! I thought Apple's stuff was so proprietary that you couldn't use another manufacturer's hard drives. Is there anything special I should look for if I decide to swap out hard drives?
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Response Number 6
Name: Gid Date: February 9, 2005 at 06:34:39 Pacific
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I have just put OSX on my old blueberry iBook. It works ok, but I have 320Mb RAM and a 10Gb HD. I wouldn't bother if you've only got a 3Gb HD - unless you go for an external HD, in which case... fine. Oh, and I believe it can accomdate up to 512Mb RAM?
Summary: I recently purchased os x panther 10.3 for my mac. When trying to to the upgrade of the os, its says it can't upgrade this version, i hade 9 on there, so i did a clean install of 10 and then tried to ...
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