G3 to G4 Upgrades No More?

2009-08-15 Thread SteveC
I have an iMac G3 Graphite DV edition 500MHz. I looked all over the web for G4 upgrade and found one place that advertised the upgrade at all, but when I triedto orderI got an email saying they discontinued the upgrde for my system. S. Does anyone know where I can get an upgrade? It's

Re: G3 to G4 Upgrades No More?

2009-08-15 Thread Robert MacLeay
Why buy an accelerator card for a hopelessly obsolete Mac when early Intel iMacs are selling on eBay for under $400? Recently one (fully functional) Intel iMac went for only $260, including shipping. There is simply no economic justification for throwing money at obsolete computers. On Aug 15,

Re: G3 to G4 Upgrades No More?

2009-08-15 Thread Charles Davis
On Aug 15, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Robert MacLeay wrote: Why buy an accelerator card for a hopelessly obsolete Mac when early Intel iMacs are selling on eBay for under $400? Recently one (fully functional) Intel iMac went for only $260, including shipping. There is simply no economic

Re: G3 to G4 Upgrades No More?

2009-08-15 Thread Jarett DeAngelis
I've always been able to see the attraction of making very old hardware do tricks it wasn't intended for. I'd wager half the traffic on this list, if not more, comes from enthusiastic tinkerers who just love their old hardware too much to give it up :) Heck, I ran a DEC AlphaServer/266 as

Re: G3 to G4 Upgrades No More?

2009-08-15 Thread Robert MacLeay
But is it a museum piece if it has been altered? Would you say that Picasso's Guernica is hopelessly outdated, and should be improved by adding a splash of color here and there to make it more modern? As for bolting a turbo onto a Model T Ford... If the point is having a computer capable of