Hi James,
I have a lot of older Macs in use, and one is very like yours. A 7300
PowerLoogix 350, 512k cache. I have a IBM 4.5 gig and about 400mb of
RAM. It still has the stock video. My sister is using with OSX, But I am
a graphic artist and X on this Mac is too slow for graphics. But for
regular use I find it very usable with OSX. I have a 7600 with a 220 G3
card running OS 9.1 that I use as a print server. But I did have a G3
300/1mb running OSX in this 7600 at one time.
When I used the 7300 I had an ATA 100 card and a 40 gig ATA 100 drive in
it. It worked fine for most graphics work and general use.
Some of the things I bought to upgrade the PCI macs I now use in newer
Macs. The ATA card and drive does wonders for my DT G3 266. I moved a
Radion 7000 to a B&W G3 and the Rage 128 grom it to the DT G3. I never
did do a complete upgrade at once; Like yourself, I picked up good buys
as I could and when I could.
My recomendations to Christian were based on his being a self described
"Linux Nerd". I could only assume he is used to heavier hardware and I
don't want him to be dissapointed with his first Mac.
james sanderson wrote:
>
>
> I have a 7300 with an xlr8 MACHSpeed G3/300 for $75
> added a USB/Firewire combo for$50
> bought a 17" Monitor
> for$50
> bought a couple of 128 DIMMS for$40
> bought a 9GB SCSI Seagate HD for $45
> bought a 4.5 GB SCSI IBM HD for$25
> for a total of nearly $300.
I have been really happy with it. While it's not "quicksilver,"
> it's not so slow either.
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