These days, Apple's excellent OS X in its various versions is the operating system to have. Its power, elegance, and simplicity are unmatched by any other OS out there. But older Macs often have problems running OS X well enough to take advantage of its many excellent features. This is a brief overview of my experience with the best older, lower-cost Mac desktops and laptops that are suitable to run this awesome OS.
Let's establish some ground rules here: The best version of Mac OS X to run on older hardware and still experience what X will do for you is OS 10.3.9 Panther, which is available at good prices right here on okay. OS X 10.4 Tiger is a great system, but requires twice the RAM that Panther wants. OS 10.2 Jaguar wants the same RAM amount that Panther does, but is slightly slower-running at best.
So, let's look at desktops. For all practical purposes, we begin at the very low end with the excellent Power Mac G3 blue
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