$800? Hmm, you made me think. So I totaled up my actual costs.
Including shipping, it breaks down to:
Sonett G4/800 $352.94
Maxtor 80G Hard Drive 70.96
Tempo Trio 138.35
Radeon 7000 42.83
Memory 139.96
So, $745.04, not quite $800. But 2 things: I have not spent 1 dime on
computer hardware over the past 5 years. This 8600 was a hand-me-down
from my wife when we bought her a dual-processor G4-Sawtooth in 2000.
So, my cost per year (up to now) on this computer is $149.01. I believe
this set-up is now good until we can afford a dual-processor Intel-based
Mac for my wife, at which point I will most likely end up with her old
(now upgraded to dual-processor 1.4G) Sawtooth. 3-5 years, possibly.
Secondly: Yeah, it's a 50mhz bus. And I see there is a Sawtooth with a
1g G4 upgrade on ebay right now with a Buy It Now price of $625. With
no bids, it could probably be had for less. It does not have SCSI
support, so I would have to get a card for that, or a new scanner. It
does not have analogue A/V inputs, so I would need a USB adapter for
that. I guess it's a wash. This 8600 is doing all I need for now, and
more than I ever would have imagined.
Oh, and I really *did* have fun getting all this old stuff to work.
You're right about that!
In defense of antiques,
Mark in Westminster
Wayne wrote:
From: "Wayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OS X on an 8600
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:45:08 -0400
Thanks Mark [in Westminster]!
Though you made things run easily on your 8600/800 G4, I am hard pressed to
invest $800 worth of upgrades to get that old 50Mhz system bus Mac. Thanks
for teh confidence build - it must have been fun.
Wayne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Unsupported OS X" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 12:34 AM
Subject: Re: OS X on an 8600
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I am running OS X 10.3.8 on a (formerly) 8600/250 as I'm tapping this in.
KICKS A**!! (I say formerly 'cuz I *did* get the Sonnet G4/800. Also
running Tempo Trio, Radeon 7000/32, and a Maxtor 80G IDE hard drive. I'm
also pumped up to 800 meg of memory.) It's been fast, stable and reliable
for the past 3-mos; not a crash to report. I have iLife '05 loaded (sans
Garage Band. Just don't need it....), and burn dvd's on a Pioneer DVR-S606
(the encased version of their DVR-106). The audio and video ports work,
though I have to run OS 9.2.2 to input my old non-digital stuff because it
seems the programs I'm using written for OS X assume one does not have
these analog inputs. Ditto for my old SCSI scanner.
I won't say it went on easy. However, most of my problems involved a
learning curve for me. And heat problems with the CPU. (After two bum
fans from Sonnet, I scavanged a couple of well-used but still running CPU
fans from some discarded Pentium-based machines, and all my crashing
ended.) Now that I know what to do and how to do it, it would be snap,
relatively, should I ever have to do it again. My only real issue is I
can't get the dvd burner to be recognized on Tempo Trio's USB 2.0 port.
Firewire? No problem.
Now, I'm seriously considering the jump to Tiger....
Mark in Westminster
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