Thinking about a clamshell

[Chad H]

Hey guys,
I am glad this dang Apple bug has hit me. I am craving a iBook clamshell. I am wondering how hard it is to get these things to run OSX? I am looking for a 366mhz and upgrading it to 576MB of RAM and putting a 120GB HD in it. What do you guys think? I am looking on ebay and "custommacs.com". I just need some input. The only thing I am going to do is surf the web and listen to i-tunes.

 

[TEG]

They could run Jaguar OK, but you'd be better off getting a G4 running Tiger so you can view most modern websites, whereas the older versions of Safari and IE have major problems.

TEG

 

[Chad H]

Can you not update Safari? Also, they didn't make a G4 clamshell did they?

 

[QCassidy352]

no such thing as a G4 clamshell. I'm just curious, why would you want one? I see you have a MBA, and that will run everything about 100x better than a clamshell, not to mention being lighter, having a far better screen, and being far sexier. Those things are really old and really slow. You could get it running 10.2 or something, but it would be painful. I used to have a 600 mhz G3 ibook, and I kept it running OS 9 most of the time. The OS X was really built with G4s and higher in mind. It will certainly run on a G3, but it's not a terribly fun experience.

 

[Chad H]

Just a toy really. More of a collector item. Of course I guess I could just let it run OS 9 but the internet would be horrible.

 

[TEG]

Can you not update Safari? Also, they didn't make a G4 clamshell did they?

You might be able to run a newer version of FF, but Safari 2 required Panther, and Safari 3 requires Tiger. I would actually look into finding the G3 466 clamshell iBook, that could run Panther and maybe Tiger if you max out the RAM.

TEG

 

[Chad H]

Yeah, I did a little more digging. Its not worth it based on what I have on the way with the mini and already having a MBA. I think I am just going to save the money and get a 23" cinema display for my mini. Thanks for the advice guys.

 

[krye]

You can get Tiger on a clamshell if it has firewire. If not, you can remove the hard drive, stick it in another machine, install Tiger, and then swap the drive over. Google it. It's been done before.

 

[MacGuyver]

Guys I'm thinking about buying a VCR. Is there anyway I can make it play Blu-Ray?