Upgrading to OS/X and Office/X

[WKWILLEKE]

Dear all,

I use my Office 2001 on an elder iBook 366 Mhz with 384 MB RAM. The HD is
nearly full so that I want to replace the 10 MB HD with a 60 MB HD and
upgrade to OS/X (while still using OS 9,2.2. From time to time - as I can
not afford to pay for the upgrades of all sw licenses at one time)

I want to partitionate the HDD into 3 partitions

1. OS/X
2. OS 9.22.
3. Data Partition

Will I be able to use OS 9.X applications from within the classic
environment of OS/X when OS 9.X is on a different partition ?

Any bugs of Office X still known that should be think once more about
switching ?

Werner / Tver - Russia

 

[Elliott Roper]

Dear all,

I use my Office 2001 on an elder iBook 366 Mhz with 384 MB RAM. The HD is
nearly full so that I want to replace the 10 MB HD with a 60 MB HD and
upgrade to OS/X (while still using OS 9,2.2. From time to time - as I can
not afford to pay for the upgrades of all sw licenses at one time)

I want to partitionate the HDD into 3 partitions

1. OS/X
2. OS 9.22.
3. Data Partition

Will I be able to use OS 9.X applications from within the classic
environment of OS/X when OS 9.X is on a different partition ?

Any bugs of Office X still known that should be think once more about
switching ?

Your machine is has only just enough memory and just enough MHz to run
OS X 10.2.x It will work, but it will be slow. It might be a good idea
to wait a few months for 10.3 (Panther). A friend is using a developer
release on an original iMac (233 MHz G3) and he is most impressed with
how fast it is.

For most purposes it is best not to partition your disk. OSX, Classic
and 9.2 will all work from the same partition. Use the startup control
panel or system preference to set which one will be in use next time
you start. You will need a copy of OS 9 in the OS X partition for
Classic. It might as well be the same one you use for booting into 9.

As long as you keep your disk less than 80% full, there is not much
benefit from having a data partition. By leaving about 20% spare, you
will avoid file fragmentation permanently.

Office X has many strange bugs. It wouldn't be Office without them.
Some of us have trouble printing, especially controlling margins and
printing on unusual size paper on some printers. (I'm one of the lucky
ones, my cheap as dirt Brother laser works brilliantly) Track changes
is flaky. Unicode and font support is awful. But that has always been
the case.

 

[Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.]

I use OSX on a Separate Hard drive (a Western Digital 120gb 7200 ATA100
internally) and
a Standard issue IBM 30GB from Factory Hard drive) for OS 9.2.2 (internal).

When I am in OSX boots classic just fine.

I use a G4-500 with 1.5 gb System RAM and an ATI Radeon 9000 AGP video
card (with 64mb of VRAM to use with Quartz extreme).

Works just fine. The upgrade from the ATI Rage Pro 128 to the Radeon
9000 has had a super affect on video and how fast it draws video detail
in web browsing and email/newsreading.

I decided on using the separate drives so that OSX wouldn't mess with my
OS9 files anymore than it had to.

The only disadvantage is resisting the urge to throw away OSX files that
show up on the desktop when booted into OS9. I use Utilities such as
Cocktail and MacJanitor to throwaway the proper junk files on OSX.
such as DS_Store, and cacahe files and no longer used log files.

Your machine is has only just enough memory and just enough MHz to run
OS X 10.2.x It will work, but it will be slow. It might be a good idea
to wait a few months for 10.3 (Panther). A friend is using a developer
release on an original iMac (233 MHz G3) and he is most impressed with
how fast it is.

For most purposes it is best not to partition your disk. OSX, Classic
and 9.2 will all work from the same partition. Use the startup control
panel or system preference to set which one will be in use next time
you start. You will need a copy of OS 9 in the OS X partition for
Classic. It might as well be the same one you use for booting into 9.

As long as you keep your disk less than 80% full, there is not much
benefit from having a data partition. By leaving about 20% spare, you
will avoid file fragmentation permanently.

Office X has many strange bugs. It wouldn't be Office without them.
Some of us have trouble printing, especially controlling margins and
printing on unusual size paper on some printers. (I'm one of the lucky
ones, my cheap as dirt Brother laser works brilliantly) Track changes
is flaky. Unicode and font support is awful. But that has always been
the case.

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