I had the same instincts, so am glad to see them confirmed.
Software upgrades drive the need for hardware upgrades. If you want to keep your Classic II/9600/Intel iMac functional, don't "max it out." Thus the pirates of Silicon Valley would not have us think, but thus we should think.
One by one, I have been installing a Claris software suite on the thing, being a big fan of the old Claris products. I then fire them up and see how they behave on this particular Compact. What I am surprised to see is that applications like ClarisCAD and ClarisDraw appear to run just fine on the Classic II (in the case of ClarisDraw, minus the colour, of course — which, however, the software conveniently compensates for in some measure by substituting words for colour swatches).
I am not really going to use graphics software on a CII, of course, but am doing this just for kicks. To really give it a run for its money, however, I plan later this week to install NisusWriter v.5, and see how it behaves. I have that program around here somewhere. Will report back.
Software upgrades drive the need for hardware upgrades. If you want to keep your Classic II/9600/Intel iMac functional, don't "max it out." Thus the pirates of Silicon Valley would not have us think, but thus we should think.
One by one, I have been installing a Claris software suite on the thing, being a big fan of the old Claris products. I then fire them up and see how they behave on this particular Compact. What I am surprised to see is that applications like ClarisCAD and ClarisDraw appear to run just fine on the Classic II (in the case of ClarisDraw, minus the colour, of course — which, however, the software conveniently compensates for in some measure by substituting words for colour swatches).
I am not really going to use graphics software on a CII, of course, but am doing this just for kicks. To really give it a run for its money, however, I plan later this week to install NisusWriter v.5, and see how it behaves. I have that program around here somewhere. Will report back.