Best Operating system for iMac G3

hello everyone just picked up an imac G3 with 350mhz and 6gb HDD was just wondering what would be the best OS to put on it? currently it has 10.1. i appreciate any advice. thanks

Mid 2007 Macbook 2.16 GHz 1 GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.5.1), 4GB iPHONE 160 GB iPOD classic 4GB Video Nano iMac G3 Green 350MHz

Posted on Mar 6, 2008 12:11 AM

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Mar 6, 2008 2:40 AM in response to chicagoapple

Hello,

Obviously anything you do as a result of of reading the info at the following link is at your own risk:

http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~t-imai/imacde1.html


Mac OS 10.3.9 is the maximum supported by the iMac 350MHz (none of the iMac 350MHz models had Firewire) however you can install 10.4.11 if you use XPostFacto. If you do this I would recommend considering increasing the hard disk to 120GB (128GB is the maximum supported) and installing more RAM (up to 1GB total).


regards


mrtotes

Mar 6, 2008 7:57 AM in response to chicagoapple

Hey Chiapple,
Don't know if you're still looking at this post but:
(it has firewire)

So if it has FireWire it can't be a 350 it must be 400 - 700.
btw can i overclock it? how is that done or is it too complicated.
I've looked at that Japanese site a lot and have done the overclocking on the G4 Sawtooth, which is easy since you're only changing a jumper. Generally you can only do one jump up, I was never able to get 2 steps of increase to boot up.

So in the iMac soldering those tiny SMT resistors is very hard. If you want to play with speed increases look for a 600 or 700 logic board and swap it in there. That's been done a lot on this forum but there are mods that have to be done mostly to the heat sink.
Now for real fun get a cheap G4 Sawtooth (2 right now on Craig's list) and drop a Mercury Extreme processor upgrade in it from OWC for $260 (they're close here in Chicago). I just did that for a client and I think that thing was as fast as another client's Mac Pro!
Richard

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