Gene,
So you're "across the pond"...? Not up to speed on currency exchange
rates, but her asking price sounds a bit high to me. I wouldn't pay
more than US $60-75 (total including shipping) for a Rev 1 configged as
you describe. For comparison, I just won this B&W 350 w/128 MB RAM and
OEM UltraSCSI card installed for $89 total cost:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5790063571 -
(I don't really care that it has no hard drive because I'll be
installing a 10,000 RPM Cheetah. The boot issues described in the
listing probably scared off other bidders, which is why I got a
reasonable deal on it. The blank folder on screen at startup indicates
it's not a hardware problem.)
Yeah I'm across the pond ;) Yeah £50 sounds steep, but looking at ebay
auctions - all £50 ($87) macs doesn't have hard drive, RAM, or PSU.
Such as this one...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4607&item=5225200216&rd=1
This is more or less the same as my mate's Mac tho possibly revision 2
(no gurantee tho) - £85 ($150)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4607&item=5224571843&rd=1
The B&W uses PC100; look here to see if the RAM you have seems to match
the relevant specs: http://dealram.com/prices/systems/3/256MB.html
The IDE controller may not be Mac compatible. Mac cards require special
firmware, and most cards for PCs don't have it. You may want to check
out the Swaplist and/or ebay for compatible controller cards.
Yeah, I've got PC133 memory - should be OK - the computer the RAM is in
currently runs at 100MHz FSB and works fine. Bah re: IDE controllers -
I guess the Promise Ultra 66 won't work on the mac. Is there any
"hardware that will work with this" list anywhere?
B&Ws are a personal favorite, and I've owned Rev 1 and Rev 2 units.
They're great Macs for the bargain hunter. But if you anticipate that
you'll spend more than ~$200 US total on it (including any RAM and drive
upgrades) you may want to consider shopping for a used AGP G4 tower.
Just a thought....
Yeah agreed. As the HDD and 256MB RAM is "free", I only need to splash
out on 256 more MB of RAM (£18 inc postage - $30) ASAP, possibly
graphics card and IDE controller sometime in the near future - tho I
guess a 13GB drive would be just about enough to dual boot between OSX
and Debian but - certainly worth testing out the controller first. Then
*maybe* a CPU upgrade in the far future, and then no more.
Most common upgrades are the 32 MB DDR Radeon 7000, or the 128 MB DDR
Radeon 9200. Make sure you shop for the Macintosh PCI (not AGP) cards.
The stock Rage 128 card has 16 MB VRAM and is more than enough for most
"average" home users.
Fab. I have 2 monitors, so I'd like to try and run the Mac in dual
monitor mode - I seem to see the graphics cards to be of a different
length to the other slots - would the graphics card fit in those or do I
need different size cards? Or would the above cards you suggested fit fine?
I assume something like this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11151&item=5224926972&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
will be OK?
Thanks very much for your help again!
Cheers - Piers
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