Years ago, I posted about grief with my unsupported Mac on this list - it was a 7300 with (eventually) a G3/400, Ahard Acard UltraATA card, 40GB Maxtor drive, 384MB RAM and Firewire/USB combo card. For a while, it ran Jaguar quite well, if a little unstably. Now it no longer will - I'm unsure why but I suspect NVRAM corruption or something. But it doesn't matter, because...
Later, a friend gave me a pensioned-off Beige G3 - 300MHz, 768MB RAM, 40GB drive, Voodoo 5 PCI graphics. It now has the Acard and 2 40GB drives, plus Firewire and USB, and runs Panther quite well with XPF - rock solid but not exactly blisteringly quickly. But I don't know whether it's worth trying to coax any more performance out of it. It's usable but too slow to be my main machine. Its RAM is maxed out and I have more disk space than I know what to do with, but it's sluggish. I'd like to add a Radeon 7000 and a faster processor, but a CPU in the gigahertz range will cost me well over �100 judging from eBay. Alas, the G3/400 on my old XLR8 MachSpeed G3/400 card is surface-mount, so I can't pull it and pop it in the Beige's ZIF socket. So should I spent another couple of hundred pounds on this old machine, or should I sell it for whatever I can get and buy a Mac Mini instead, which would only be slightly more and would be a far more powerful computer? All I'd really lose is my dual-head capability, although I do really like that... Thoughts from the panel? -- Liam Proven Home: http://welcome.to/liamsweb * Blog: http://lproven.livejournal.com AOL, Yahoo UK: liamproven * ICQ: 73187508 * MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
