5 Apr
2013
5 Apr
'13
8:22 a.m.
On 5 April 2013 15:54, Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> wrote:
On 4/5/13 6:19 AM, "Jason McBrien"
<jbmcb1 at gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks to ClassicCmp's very own Cameron Kaiser, there's TenFourFox for
PPC Mac users running Tiger, and if you're on a later G4 or G5 with
Leopard, there's Aurora. Both make these older machines far more
practical today.
http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/43362/aurorafox
OS X 10.4 has quite low hardware requirements - it runs fine on
well-specced G3 Macs.
But then again, the modern Web has higher CPU demands than you might
expect. I think a gigaHertz-class machine really is the entry level
these days. A good fast high-spec 500-750MHz machine can be usable but
it will be a little laggy and require some patience.
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On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Toby Thain
<toby at telegraphics.com.au>wrote:
That? what's truly sad: it's not that the computer isn't capable, but the
browser is not! My family and I use dual G4 Powermacs, which are
wonderful machines. But once the browser protocols migrate from what
their browsers can support, they might as well be doorstops from my
family's perspective. -- Ian Sad. Great machines. A G5 is my main home
desktop/dev box. Runs like a
dream.
One of my friends' father has been using a third gen G3 iMac for browsing
the web since they first came out. It was all he really needed. Last
December the web site he mainly uses switched to HTML5 so the ancient
browser he had on there couldn't render the site properly.
So my friend "upgraded" him to a G5 iMac, that's five years old. Runs
everything his dad needs again and is comparatively fast.
Note the old G3 iMac is still running fine, it just can't run the latest
browser.