Help me with my new old ibook! ^_^

[tfortier]

holy cow, I just installed warcraft 3 and its unplayable even if the minimum requirement is g3 400mhz... is there something I can tweek??

[dan1el]

whats the correct OS X version ? 10.3 ?

do a reinstall of OS X I would say...in case you haven't

[tfortier]

Why? will it change something? lool like trouble to me... 10.3.2... which version do you suggest for such a old hardware??

thanks for reply!
t

[dan1el]

10.3 should be fine

do you have th original CD's ? if so put them in the CD drive and boot holding down "C"

you will be asked to re-install and you get like 3 options, one is totally new from scratch another one is called something like archive and something...which will re-install the OS X only leaving your home folder intact.

the last one mentioned will be preferred if you have documents you want to keep, but if this is a totally new machine for you do a clean install, so you get rid of any mess left by the former owner.
your machine shouldn't be super-slow with 10.3, the minimum specs are:
The system requirements are:[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.3#cite_note-0)



PowerPC G3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_G3), G4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_G4), or G5 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_G5) processor (at least 233 MHz)
Built-in USB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB) (indicative of a New World ROM being present)
At least 128 MB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MB) of RAM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM) (512 MB recommended)
At least 1.5 GB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB) of available hard disk space
CD drive
Internet access requires a compatible service provider; iDisk requires a .Mac account
Video conferencing requires:



333 MHz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz) or faster PowerPC G3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_G3), G4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_G4), or G5 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_G5) processor
broadband Internet access (100 kbit/s or faster)
Compatible FireWire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWire) DV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DV) camera or web camera

[tfortier]

No, I dont have the original cd... thinking of it, I should have asked the seller...

[splitpoint]

192MB of RAM? If you're going to run OSX you'll want to add some RAM for sure, it'll make a pretty big difference in the way that machine will run.

[tfortier]

yeah, the cursor is quite slow..! I dont know if it will fix that!

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