![]() ![]() I highly recommend this route if you/your friend is not already an experienced Linux user one of the major appeals of the Mac platform is the operating system. Pick up as much as you can afford, and cram it in. ![]() Chances are very good that your machine uses the old standard PC100/PC133 168-pin SDRAM, which is available for extremely reasonable prices nowadays. ![]() Make sure that you have at least 512 MB, preferably 1 GB. Remember that RAM (not processor speed) is key to making Mac OS X run at peak performance. Otherwise, you can install a full retail copy on a G4/1GHz without any extra effort. If your machine is one with a third-party G3 upgrade card, you may need to hack the newer versions of OS X to run them, but this is a relatively straightforward process, and you won't have any performance problems once you get it installed. My home network server is a 733 MHz G4 running OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Server (and I'm hardly your "average" home network user). My mother uses a 933 MHz G4 running OS X 10.5 (Leopard) all day long to surf the web and do other basic computing tasks it's never been slow. In either case, the machine can quite comfortably run an older version of Mac OS X that supports PPC processors (at the time of this writing, all that leaves out is the latest release, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, which drops support for the PPC platform altogether in favor of Intel). A PowerPC Mac with a 1 GHz processor either has a factory-installed G4 processor or has a G3 upgrade card installed. ![]()
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