What Mac model is equal to a PIII 700mhz

#31 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 - 12:38

Windows 98 is pretty horrible by today's standards though - to be honest XP will run nicely on a 500 MHz as long as you have a reasonable amount of Ram or do a little tweaking, I think it would be a waste to only run 98 on one. As for a G3, why would you run only OS 9 on one? Stick some memory in there and OS X flies on them! Macs seem to remain modern and useful for longer than PCs - while a 500 MHz PC is from the G4 era, G3s from 1998 are still very very useable (with Tiger).

I beg to disagree. I'll take a properly patched Windows 98 SE computer with at least 256MB of RAM anyday over a fully patched XP machine. About the only things that I need to run that I can't are iTunes and Google Earth, everything else runs well.

Win98 Autopatcher (watch Windows 98 fly, fast and stable).

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=80800

I guess that's one advantage over OS9, 98SE can run most modern browsers (except IE7: not a problem since Maxthon is more stable and has a better feature set, and Safari for Windows).

Of course, I'll take a Mac with OS X and lots of RAM above anything running Windows, but I have to manage some windows machines, so I try to make them their best.