Minimum OS?

ThePunisher · 09-04-2008, 01:03 PM

I have a Mac Mini with a 1.25GHz G4 and 256 MB of RAM running 10.3.9. A real speed demon. It's been running really poorly over the course of perhaps the past year and, rather then replace the RAM (Don't suggest it), I thought I might downgrade the OS to a less system "intensive" version but, the question arose, how low can this 2005 Mac Mini go?

Thanks for any help you guys can give me!

sinclair_tm · 09-04-2008, 04:58 PM

That is the lowest/oldest OS that it can run. The only real thing you can do is upgrade the RAM. My question is, how much free space is there on your hard drive? Being it has so little RAM, the OS will use lots of the hard drive to swap stuff, and the less free space there is, the slower the Mac will run. You are going to want at least 10 Gig free just to run things with that amount of RAM.

ThePunisher · 09-08-2008, 02:23 PM

Sorry for the late reply, I was rather caught up in something.

The drive had 20 GBs of free space but I've recently brought this up to 30. This has helped, more then I would have expected actually, and it seems as if any further improvements would only be brought about with a RAM upgrade. My other Mac Mini recently has just died, and I suppose I may as well pry out it's 512 MB stick.

Thanks for the help, though it seems I have another, more pressing question, for another thread.

09-04-2008, 01:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
ThePunisher Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 10 OS: Os 10.3.9 - 10.5	Minimum OS? I have a Mac Mini with a 1.25GHz G4 and 256 MB of RAM running 10.3.9. A real speed demon. It's been running really poorly over the course of perhaps the past year and, rather then replace the RAM (Don't suggest it), I thought I might downgrade the OS to a less system "intensive" version but, the question arose, how low can this 2005 Mac Mini go? Thanks for any help you guys can give me!

09-08-2008, 02:23 PM	#3 (permalink)
ThePunisher Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 10 OS: Os 10.3.9 - 10.5	Re: Minimum OS? Sorry for the late reply, I was rather caught up in something. The drive had 20 GBs of free space but I've recently brought this up to 30. This has helped, more then I would have expected actually, and it seems as if any further improvements would only be brought about with a RAM upgrade. My other Mac Mini recently has just died, and I suppose I may as well pry out it's 512 MB stick. Thanks for the help, though it seems I have another, more pressing question, for another thread.