Oh ye, did you get the 160GB HD, if so, how much of it was used with the default config, coz when I got my iMac G5, I only had about 130GB available, which I thought was absurd

Great to know about load times, but has anyone mentioned filter times??

OK, so here's the real question: have you tried booting Windows from an external drive? This is the only mystery that needs to be solved before I place my order. I'm still depend…

Quote: Originally Posted by swatson do you have copy of windows xp laying around? try installing it? Or copy of windows vista (beta) or server 2003? maybe install it on an exte…

Quote: Originally Posted by LagunaSol OK, so here's the real question: have you tried booting Windows from an external drive? This is the only mystery that needs to be solved b…

Quote: Originally Posted by ravenz I have Windows XP at the office. I'll go get it today or tomorrow. However, I don't suspect it will work. I think we'll be dependent upon VMWa…

Quote: Originally Posted by ravenz I found my Windows 98 CD - that was a total failure (as expected), both from booting with C key and from Option menu on reboot. I'm going dow…

yes iMac has EFI but it also has a backward compatible legacy module for those OS'es which use BIOS (look around engadget, you'll see an article pertaining to this) glad to see pe…

Quote: Originally Posted by heesey1010 yes iMac has EFI but it also has a backward compatible legacy module for those OS'es which use BIOS (look around engadget, you'll see an a…

Quote: Originally Posted by ravenz I found my Windows 98 CD - that was a total failure (as expected), both from booting with C key and from Option menu on reboot. I'm going dow…

Has anyone had a chance to check if iLife '06 and iWork '06 do no longer work at all on G3 Macs or if the new requirements only mean that Apple thinks that G3's are simply too slow…

I tried to instlal it on a G3, and it gave me an error saying I needed a G4. Any way around it? - Matt

If it's using an installer package, you could try Pacifist from http://www.charlessoft.com/ to get around the check in the Installer.

Noone here who could test it on a G3? I'm thinking about creating an Altivec emulator for G3s if it's really true that important applications like iLife and iWork do no longer wor…

mm, I think even if it works on G3, it will be very very slow, my pbook G4 1.5Ghz 1Gig ram just about to run iwork & ilife 06

hopefully I will try it in a couple of days, my friend is buying iLife '06 and I ask him if I could try it, to see if it works, before I buy it. Look at the sig for the G3 specs

It says no G3, but I'm about to try pacifist, so I'll post back.

Even with an Altivec emulator most iLife '06 apps would be impossibly slow. GarageBand is already fairly slow on a 2x800MHz G4. You'd never get anything accomplished in that app …

Ok. iPhoto works, BUT the edit window doesn't work, presumably because it depends (as Horsepoo!!! says) on CoreImage and Altivec/GPU acceleration. Having said all that, it's actu…

So you can choose the apps you want to install?

Quote: Originally Posted by ben.mcguire So you can choose the apps you want to install? You can select in iLife 05 as well. Click on the customize button during the install …

I've had good success with GarageBand 2 on an iBook G3 900MHz with 640MB RAM, using it for one-track input and simple editing/podcasting. Anyone have any success with GB3 on a G3 i…

iLife would not install on my G3 iBook, but after installing it on my eMac I did copy iWeb over to the iBook, and it runs fine. iWork '06, though, didn't pop up any warnings and i…

So it looks like iWork '06 and iWeb run fine, while iPhoto 6 runs even faster on the G3 than iPhoto 5, but the editing mode doesn't work. The other applications would probably real…

Geez, just get a G4 already.