What to do with G4 after buying a New iMac
Hello everyone. I'm close to buying an iMac 21.5 Intel and will use the Migration Assistant to transfer my settings and applications over from my G4 in Target mode. After all is well, I plan to put my 8 year old G4 (it only has 40 GB) in another room and use it from time to time because it still runs well. I just don't want to get too far behind in operating systems as I am now running Tiger plus I need more hard disk space.
Do most of you out there just keep your old computers for miscellaneous purposes or do you network them to go online? I have a DSL modem now and am thoroughly confused as to how to network it with a computer in another room so that both can access the internet? I'm wondering if the expense and trouble in doing this is worth it? Thanks for any suggestions. Rich
my first immediate inclination is to why even bother to connect to the Internet on both computers or even each to the other.
LOL, I thought that was what you wanted, but as you say, there are other methods!
And the only disadvantage of no internet on the G4 is no more download support available. But I don't think there is much more in the way of support left for Tiger anyway. In fact, I have yet to download the new Safari and the new iTunes update because of all the chatter about how guys are wanting to switch back to the old Safari.
That's an advantage!!! New iTunes is only needed for buying Music from Apple, and your new one will do that if you want. Safari 4 is no good for me, but others with Broadband seem to like it's speed.
I am connected by Ethernet and I know that you are on dial up so I presume you have only your newest computer connected the the web.
I've actually shared that Dial-up connection with 5 other Macs & 2 PCs!
The first is should I get all Apple Updates before shutting down the G4 or be happy with the way things are now?
No need really, it works for everything it does now right?
And the second is can my Iomega external drive (which is bootable to Tiger on one partition and filled with movies and photos on the other partition) be connected to the iMac via Firewire just in order to copy and transfer those movies over to the iMac even though the Iomega external drive is not formatted for Intel?
No problem, might need an adapter or new cable if your new One is only FW800 & the Drive is only FW400, but the Intel will have no problem reading from it.
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