sandwer Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 Bull. I used a 500MHz G3 B&W w/ 512MB with Tiger (10.4.5 was the last version I had on it before I sold it) with a 16MB non QE video card and Tiger ran pretty damn good. Hell I used to sit and watch DVD's on it and stream video to it from my MythTV box without and issues. The GF's 500MHz G3 iBook w/ 640 RAM and an 8MB video card run Tiger (10.4.7) quite smoothly as well. Same here Roga - my G3 B&W 450 with 1 gig of ram (it was spare after an upgrade, wasn't a deliberate purchase...) with somesuch non-QE ATI PCI card in it runs tiger *really* well. Very snappy gui response, its not a chore using it. Of course its pretty rubbish as a folding machine, but its no hardship to use safari on it - in fact, I'd be had pushed to tell the difference between that and my 450 G4 [*] - don't knock the G3's until you've tried one. Of course that IS a subjective opinion and only my $0.02 worth, ymmv. //R [*] my G4 AGP 450 has a twinview card in it which up until 10.4.5 alleged that QE was enabled. 10.4.7 - declares that its not a QE card anymore. Hmmmm. Time to get a strangedogs card methinks.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Muchacho Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 That's an interesting statement, as QE does not work (even hacked) on Beige G3s in any way shape or form. But a B&W G3 with a QE compatible card is actually quite good running Tiger - though Spotlight indexing will bring the system to a crawl. Without a QE card though, Tiger is unusable. QE doesn't work on biege G3s? , i have even had it running on a powermac 9600. where do u find your information, I seem to be running QE perfectly fine here on my Biege G3 using a Radeon 7000 and pci extreme. spotlight is dependant on HDD speed, my 10,000rpm scsi drive takes care of that. I have 512mb ram, a QE enabled videocard and a fast hdd. tiger runs just fine even if my cpu is only a 375mhz G3, can even play DVDs full screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adriandkicks Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 It works great....Now if someone would plz make an Altivec emulator so I can run some of the more basic features of the OS that would be great. I STILL HAVE WARRANTY ON MY IBOOK G3 900MHZ AND CANT EVEN RUN THE LATEST OS....THAT PISSES ME OFF!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcuneytx Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 thanx for the info.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theofan1960 Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 Hi, Anybody had any success with leopard on an iMac g3 333??? I did all the steps written in the tutorial but when I boot into the installation, it shows the apple with the circle and then shuts down. If anybody has an idea, don't hesitate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevoX Posted March 31, 2007 Author Share Posted March 31, 2007 Hi, Anybody had any success with leopard on an iMac g3 333??? I did all the steps written in the tutorial but when I boot into the installation, it shows the apple with the circle and then shuts down. If anybody has an idea, don't hesitate! Well I tested that on my iMac G3 350mhz i removed all references to g3 in osinstall.dist. and it installed. But now my iMac g3 has died but I think it needs a new battery. I have ran Leopard on my new iMac and it runs great btw 17" iMac 2.0ghz Intel Core 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russyb Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 can someone please upload the 'G3 OSinstall.dist' file included in this tutorial as trhe link is dead !!!! will this tutorial work for the retail version released last friuday ? please someone help me thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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