On Thursday, May 27, 2004, at 09:35 AM, Paul Tansom wrote:
Hello, I'm new to the list and pretty much to Macs too, although I have
managed to get my hands on increasingly newer models with the aim of
learning more over the past couple of years (and made myself far more
familiar with them by doing a clean install of OS 8 on an old 6320 a few
months back). I have worked my way up from Quads through to my last
acquisition which was a PowerMac 7600,
I share a similar background, starting with a salvaged Mac IIci, moving through the Quads and into the PowerPCs. Currently, I have a G3-AIO and looking for a B&W.
Anyway...
I find the my G3 quite usable, but I have done some expansion:
G3 867-Mhz processor 768 MB RAM 128 GB IDE HD 30 GB IDE HD Radeon 7000 PCI graphics card. USB 1.1 PCI card. OS X 10.2.8
My gut feel is that it would be better to try for a blue and white G3 or
newer, but since the money goes to charity (not sure how much yet), I
may just go for it anyway.
The biggest limits of the G3 is the lack of an AGP slot for a fast graphics card. Your stuck using one of the three 33-Mhz PCI slots. I believe even the non-AGP B&W's have a 66-Mhz PCI slot for graphics.
If you do go for the G3, any good PCI card used to upgrade it, could be transferred to a B&W when you upgrade. The only thing I would worry about transferring is RAM and the CPU card.
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