We can theorize all we want, but I suspect the removal of this feature in USB 2.0 Macs was to-again-steer people toward Firewire externals. For anything web based, browser compatibility will be a big factor. ![]() Im trying to figure out what minor novelty tasks this computer might actually still be able to perform. USB 2.0 PPC Macs can-as we all know-be booted from OF without too much trouble. At the time, I upgraded it from OS 9 to OS X, and I believe its already running the latest supported version which is 10.3.9. 14 year Apple veteran (employee 66) and founder of Apples Human Interface Group speaks out on OS 10.3 Mac is indeed back For the first time, with a few. Even though the feature was there, I think it was as much to make you crave Firewire(an Apple technology) for booting. We strongly recommend Opera 9.6.x (the only browser for Panther still being updated), Firefox 2.0.0.20, and. This was an advertised feature, although admittedly it's very slow(~15 minutes to a useable desktop from an external USB drive with Leopard installed on my TiBook). Browsers are listed by how up-to-date they are. Apple Safari is the official web browser from Apple which comes pre-installed in Mac. ![]() ![]() On the majority of Powermac G4s and Powerbook G4s that have USB 1.1(Yikes! excepted), it's even easy as you can select the USB disk from boot manager on startup. As a result of the five-year agreement between Apple and Microsoft in 1997, it was the default browser on the classic Mac OS and Mac OS X from 1998 until it was superseded by Apples own Safari web browser in 2003 with the release of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. I find it interesting that there's a lot of prevailing internet "wisdom" that PPC Macs can't boot off USB. I'm not surprised that a Pismo(early 2000) can, but would be surprised if a Lombard(May '99) could. I'm pretty sure I've booted my iMac G3(either early or mid 2001-I couldn't swear which) off USB. ![]() I suspect that all the NWR computers which were updated after the Sawtooth came out in late August of '99 could do it, although I wouldn't swear to it. I think that USB booting was introduced with the Sawtooth G4-at least contemporary articles made a big deal out of.
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