Mark, I concur with Mr. Alcacid. I have several PCI Macs and have upgraded and run OSX on acouple of them. Unlike Mr. Alcacid, I did not have trouble running OSX. But! OSX was Too much for the upgrades I installed and performance was poor. I feel that it cost way too much to get one of the PCI Macs in good OSX condition. I have a couple of stock 266 Beige G3s that run OSX just fine, with plenty of memory. A fast HD and a 400 or faster zif makes a Beige G3 a very good OSX Mac for general use.
MacResQ has the Desktop G3 266, 128 mb, 4gig, 24x CD for $200. http://www.macresq.com/store/specials.php you can't beat that for a great cheap system. Roger Harris James Alcasid wrote: > The story is much different as a far as a BeigeG3, but eve these > machines are on the border of a supported config for MacOSX. I > certainly did not have an issue with reliability on the BeigeG3 however. > > If the option is open to you I would recommend a BeigeG3 over upgrading > a PCI PowerMac. I have a lot of nostalgia for the PCI Macs, I have four > of them. I I cannot recommend upgrading a PCI PowerMac especially if > your intention is to run MacOSX. > > > On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 08:01 PM, mark wrote: > > >>I've seen people mention that theres a limit of a G4/400 or G3/800 on >>a G3 >>model. But you can get a G4/800 for a PCI PowerPC. How so? Does this >>limitation mean that something like a 9500 is a better cheap Mac than >>a G3 >>for future upgrades? Especially if you intend putting OSX on it? >> >>-- >>Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> >> >> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> >> >>Unsupported OS X list info >><http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> >> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; >>Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To unsubscribe, email: >><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>For digest mode, email: >><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Archive >><http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> >> >>Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com >> >> > > > -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
