Ok, Jow Forums. I'm an anti-Apple guy, but I had the opportunity to buy a Clamshell iBook for a reasonable price and I jumped on it.
So, after installing the original OS on it (the guy that sold it to me had installed OS X 10.2, I tracked and installed Mac OS 9.2.1 on the iBook) and giving it a nice clean, I wonder, what are the programs people regularly used with this laptop? I already installed Office for Mac 2001, but having used a PC in that era -when I was in Junior High- I don't know what was regularly bundled with the iBook.
And another thing. Anyone has any experience removing scuffs from the colured part of the iBook? It is not a hard plastic which can be buffed and polished, so I'm at a loss on what I can use to remove scratches and give it a nice polish.
>what are the programs people regularly used with this laptop Nothing anymore, the only reason to really use an old g3 ibook is for os9. As for the scuff, I can't remember the name but in model making there's a clear filler, it won't look perfect but it'll fill it up. If they're very shallow you could try magic eraser, I think.
Mason Jenkins
The Melamin fibres? I just add water and try to remove the scuffs, right?
Daniel Young
You can pick up the restore CDs for the iBook off of the Macintosh Garden, after which I’d just punch in whatever year your iBook was made into a search and pick out whatever looks interesting.
Eli Phillips
>what are the programs people regularly used with this laptop? Probably AppleWorks or Office for schoolwork, a web browser like Netscape to browse gay porn sites (Use Classilla if you want to get anywhere these days, though), DivX and Quicktime for movies, iTunes for music and maybe iMovie if it's a FireWire model. Nobody used those things for serious work, if you had anything serious to do and you needed to get an Apple portable you got a PowerBook, either one of the later G3s or a G4 Titanium.
Lincoln Richardson
>anti-apple guy
yeah you mean virgin lmaoo
Aiden Gonzalez
iTunes wasn’t a thing yet when those were sold, I run SoundJam MP with most of my iShit from that time period.
Clamshells have dogshit I/O but they’re alright for typical dicking around, I used mine for web page editing for a while.
Nathan Russell
>Macintosh Garden Thanks. I was picking software for it from several websites, but I'll give that site a look.
But Classilla itself isn't compatible with most modern websites anymore, right?
Dominic James
Classilla’s fine for anything that isn’t unusable without JavaScript. You might need an SSL downgrading proxy for some sites, though. I shitpost here all the time from my Power Macs with it when I’m working on them.
Tyler Nguyen
>iTunes wasn’t a thing yet when those were sold It was introduced in 2001, and it's safe to say most people kept their computers for at least five years back in that time. At least consumers did. Still, SoundJam MP is literally iTunes without the Apple bloat, so it'd still be a really good choice for OP. Works fine for actual websites (See: HTML, CSS and a bit of JavaScript on the side), even Jow Forums(nel) works perfectly fine. I shitpost from my iMac G3 every now and then.
Lincoln Green
See if it has Bugdom.
Bentley Watson
Great point, it’s definitely a matter of personal preference. I like my stuff as it would have been when it was barely out of the box.
Some might also find the iTunes interface a little nicer than SJMP that’s a little more Winamp-like.
Luis Murphy
One game you should definitely install is Riven or Myst Masterpiece Edition or both.
Oh boy, Tim Cook’s goodest goy finally found the thread. Too bad he’ll never convince OP to buy a MacBook.
Josiah Ward
The path to technical enlightenment begins with brainless Apple worship, turned to brainless Apple hatred, then finally ending up at a point where you simply judge a computer for what it is and what it actually does, at which anything that suitably interests you and performs the task that is needed of it will do.
Grayson Brown
>Apple hatred >finally ending up at a point where you simply judge a computer for what it is and what it actually does, at which anything that suitably interests you and performs the task that is needed of it will do. What's the difference?
Parker White
It'll become clearer as you grow up and stop worrying so much about fitting in with the r/pcmasterrace crowd, don't worry.
Nicholas Roberts
Give me one (1) reason to use a mac other than virtue signaling
Robert Gray
>I got rid of OSX and installed OS9 Idiot.
Easton Sanders
>it's this fucking retard again
Austin Wood
OS X runs like absolute ass without Quartz Extreme, something these iBooks don't support.
Thomas Walker
Look into tenfourfox and tigerbrew
Robert Green
OS X 10.2 was giving me a lot of trouble. After trying to reinstall it -or OS X 10.3, that according to my research, could also be installed in the iBook- and still having trouble with them (OS X 10.3 stopped recognizing the keyboard suddenly, so I couldn't type anything or update it), I decided to install the OS the laptop came with originally.
Daniel Reed
Doesn't matter. OS 9 is self destructing trash. You will be putting OS X back on when you have had enough of OS 9's bullshit. May as well do it now and avoid the headache.
Jordan Collins
this Key words being >OS 9 is self destructing trash.
Cameron Moore
I see you haven't used OS 9. Not on actual hardware, at least. It's hacked together, the memory management is a fucking joke and it only has cooperative multitasking, but it's far from "self destructing". And may I remind you OS X 10.0 through 10.3 were unstable pieces of shit. It got better with Tiger, an OS that's practically unusable unless you have at least a 500MHz G3 and a Radeon 7000. And that's the absolute bare minimum for it not to run like molasses.
Luke Brooks
OP head over to the mac garden and look for, games photoshop, cad, foxPro, symantec c and c++, mac format the magazine, database programs, stuffit, french tutoring programs, art gal programs, mapping software, wolfenstien, word perfect, etc. You just have say to yourself what do i use computers for?
FUCK, HOW COULD I FORGET TO MENTION STUFFIT? OP, Stuffit is ABSOLUTELY necessary if you want to download things from the Internet. You're not going anywhere without it.
>I've never run OS X on a G3: the post It's worthless on systems of that class, and anachronistic for a clamshell iBook anyway. The abandonware options on OS 9 are much better, stability is still more than acceptable, and most of the advantages OS X actually brings to the table, such as SMP support and proper multitasking, are lost on a G3 portable with an 800x600 display.
Early versions of OS X were garbage fires anyway, there's a reason Apple was still dual-booting even high-end multiprocessor systems with OS 9 from the factory until 2003.
Landon Morris
I ran 10.1 (and eventually 10.4) on a G3 iBook (the white one that had an obnoxiously high failure rate) for ages. was definitely slower (especially when I put 10.4 on, hot fucking damn), but I had better software on OSX (moreso when I did get 10.4 there, 10.0-10.2 are a software fucking wasteland), didn't have to deal with OS9's instability (just browsing the web at all risked needing a reboot, fuck), and the handful of programs I did still need OS9 for, the performance hit of Classic didn't matter too much. I remember being really fucking annoyed that I couldn't get a torrent client running on anything prior to like 10.3.9 or some shit, too. Probably existed, but I couldn't fucking find anything. being able to do something, anything else while something ran in the background was a godsend too
mind you, I was okay with a lot of real bullshit, that machine only had 192MB of RAM and I think some ATI Rage video -- 10.1 ran fine, 10.4's UI was mega choppy I did boot into OS9 to run emulators -- really needed that speed. But for general computing? Fuck OS9. Best thing I could say about it is that Platinum is a gorgeous user interface.
10.1 was... well, there was basically like no software for OSX at that point (I remember running quite a bit of software under X11, had Window Maker as my WM), but I didn't have the stability issues. I've quite literally never had OSX kernel panic on me. can't really imagine how bad 10.0 must have been though, having absolutely nothing to run on your machine sounds fucking awful while dealing with what's seems to sound a straight up beta test
Joshua Morales
Situation's a little different here, though. It's not as trivial to build a good stack for 10.0-10.3 nearly twenty years out and what you'll find will still be about as lacking as it is on OS 9 for a lot of tasks, and it all won't matter anyway when you've got more up-to-date systems to step in when their capabilities are needed. As much as I do enjoy my systems running their factory 10.1 and 10.2 images, my systems that shipped with OS 9 are still running OS 9, and they work just fine in their secondary roles.
