I have a G3/400 iMac, slot loading also, and it feels quite slow to me running OS 10.2, I just got Tiger disks so I'll run an upgrade sometime soon, whenever I feel like digging it out of the garage. Mine has a gig of ram, but then again I also never got to reinstall the OS when I got it so the original 20 gig drive has like 2 gigs free.
I will tell you though that speed is a matter of opinion. For my mac I typically use a Dual 2 GHz G5 with 4 gigs ram, and that makes my desktop running Linux feel slow (2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo with 3 gigs ram). As for airport, I also noticed that all the adapters seemed to be in China also. About 2 years ago I got my iMac and I wanted wireless also, but didn't feel like buying one from China, so I just used an old Windows laptop with a bad screen (backlight was out) and ran that using Internet Connection Sharing and a crossover cable for internet, cheap and works, even more so when you pull the screen completely to save power. And for ram, mixing is fine, I originally had it running with a 512 and a 128 before I got a 2nd 512 meg chip, both of different speeds and it worked fine. Just make sure you're not using 66 MHz ram, only 100 and 133 MHz ram. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
