[thelist] What is least expensive Mac to use as Web client QA box

Chris George cgeorge at basecorp.com
Mon Jan 31 16:31:47 CST 2005


> Thank you all for your suggestions.  One common suggestion is 
> to be sure that the MAC is running  OS 10.  What would be the 
> limitation of running a
> G3 with Mac OS 8.6 with regards to client side web site testing?
> 
> Does the OS version effect which version of Safari, FireFox 
> and IE which can be run?  
> 
> Thank you!

Indeed it does - 8.6 is prolly the wintel equivalent of Windows For
Workgroups 3.11.

Other than IE 5.old (5.1.7 to be exact) and Netscape like 4.ancient, I
think there's not much more you can run on 8.6. :-P

Safari Requirements:
http://www.apple.com/safari/download/

IE 5.2.3 Requirements:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/D
OWNLOAD/IE/ie5_osx.xml&secid=30&ssid=10&flgnosysreq=True

FireFox Requirements:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/system-requirements.html


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