Tim, Did you have to enable the cache on the Beige when you dropped a G4 in there? What brand?
James On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 07:25 PM, Tim Maloney wrote: > I took an original 233 G3 Beige DT, upgraded with a 350 G3 before it > got to > me, and put in a 400 G4 which runs at 420 mhz. 768 megs megs ram(3 256 > Dimms), 6 megs vram(4 meg upgrade to onboard vram), 30 gig IDE drive, > 32X > CDROM, and it runs Jaguar great. > > The best thing about this machine is I can upgrade it feasibly, there > is > even a dual proc upgrade for it, though that one would be expensive > and hard > to find used. > > However it runs OSX great and currently needs no upgrades in my > opinion. It > is a nice machine if you want to get into OSX cheaply and be able to > upgrade > for a while before your machine becomes obsolete. > > I recently sold an 8500 (ZIF carrier and 350 G3, 8 meg IX3D card, 27 > gig ide > drive, ata/66 card, USB card, 336 ram) and as soon as I'm able my moms > Powercenter(266 G3, 403 ram, 16 meg ATI card, ATA card and 30 gig ide > drive, > 32X cdrom, usb card) will be sold and a Beige G3 will replace it. > > Less trouble since my mom lives in Ohio and using a beige would > eliminate at > least the Unsupported issues that I have to deal with, though they are > not > many. > > > On 3/2/03 3:18 PM, "Roger Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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 > > -- 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
