From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 15 12:39:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smyk.apk.net (smyk.apk.net [207.54.158.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B40F37B422 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 12:39:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipswitch@kleenex.apk.net) Received: from kleenex.apk.net (mail@kleenex.apk.net [207.54.133.91]) by smyk.apk.net (8.11.2/8.11.2/apk.010219+rchk1.22+bspm1.13.1.5a) with ESMTP id f4FJdDA16325 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 15:39:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ipswitch by kleenex.apk.net with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14zkf3-0002N5-00 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 15:39:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 15:39:13 -0400 From: Stuart Krivis To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crap OS X Message-ID: <20010515153913.B6684@kleenex.apk.net> References: <200105132145.f4DLjjd20553@madcap.apk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:23:10AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:23:10AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > > > I've seen G4 400 towers selling for under $1000 refurbished. A B&W G3 350 > > like I have was even less. By the time you get an accelerator ($300+), > > more RAM, and a video adapter that will do justice to OS X, it probably > > is better to just buy a more modern machine. Sad, but true... > > A G4 tower or a B&W G3 shouldn't need any kind of CPU upgrade in > order to run MacOS X. You might need more RAM, or a compatible video > card, and you might *want* a faster CPU, but that shouldn't be > necessary. Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I meant that a Yosemite, Yikes, or Sawtooth machine is not that expensive, so by the time you would upgrade anything older, you'd be better off buying one of these. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message