> Ron Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Edith Fensom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The computer guy says my computer will run OSX but not well. It's > > > an imac that is almost 7 years old. It's time for a replacement. > > > Don't forget, it is profitable for a computer guy to give such > > advice. > > Maybe not. Not many non-apple resellers out there, she could just > have been getting honest advice. I'd look at it this way - if it's > a G4 iMac, it's perfectly fine for OSX (I'm sitting at one right now > and it meets my needs just fine). If it's a G3 iMac (the kind with > the CRT built in), then yes, OSX would be straining the system's > abilities, and unfair to the user. > > > My main computer for Genealogy use is a Pismo which is a G3 > > from 2000 and it has over 90,000 people on in and is quite > > satisfactory. > > Sure, but are you running OSX on it? If so, you'd be stunned by how > much difference it makes on, say, a $600.00 Mac Mini that you could > buy today. It comes down to how much slowness you can tolerate, or > something will change or break or not work on the old one that you > want to do, and _that_ is the time to upgrade. If OSX is the thing > she wants to do, and it's a G3, this might be the time. > > Dave Hinz <[email protected]> I'm running Panther on the Pismo. I sometimes move my database to the desktop and it is somewhat faster there, but other that waiting for a merger to take place, I don't really notice it. The desktop is a duel 2gig G5 with 2.5 gig memory. Ron Parsons <[email protected]>