Hi Roger,
Thanks for your advice, it's well taken here.
On May 11, 2005, at 4:40 PM, Roger Harris wrote:
I support Macs and PCs for small companies and indivduals. The small companies are ad agencies, design groups, screen print and sign shops. I have developed some upgrade rules I suggest to clients and myself.
Do not spend more upgrading than the computer is worth at the present time.
Makes sense to me. I like my Macs, but I'm not _that_ attached to them. ;-)
Try to make the upgrades capable of being reused on a later computer...example: Drives that will work on another Mac you may have later. If I thought I was going to be getting a G5 later I might buy SATA drives and adapter for the older Mac to use the SATA. I would not count the cost of the adapter against the upgrade value equation. Because of the universal portability, you almost never waist money on hard drives.
Right, well, the thought there is to leave it alone and get some extremely quiet external drives anyway, because I need to isolate the machine from the sound room, and at the moment, even from the control room.
I never look at the top CPU upgrades; Pick the sweet spot. On a Sawtooth it is probably a $200 one GHz. This probably all the BUSS will do efficiently anyway.
OK, thanks. That's the kind of technical advice I need.
Keep all the old parts to reinstall to the Mac when you are ready to sell it. The upgrades never ad any real value to a used computer. Put the old parts in a and sell. Sell the upgrades on their own.
Actually, I might keep it for awhile, even if I get a new machine. It can always do archiving and backup chores.
Better yet, keep the old mac to use in a different way or give to the family. I have several older souped up macs I put out on extended loan to people in need. These macs are more valuable this way than the little I could sell for; And I usually need money pretty bad.
I see. Yes, in fact, I sometimes write enableware, so that could work out for someone.
All the best, Ken N.
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