On 29/07/2005, at 9:53 AM, Tom Tubman wrote:
And I assume these PDQ PBs will take an accellerator of more than
300 MHz.
I know afrom experience that a 400 MHz Sawtooth runs FCP4 adequately.
So why would it be out of the question to inquire about the true
capacity of the OPs Mac?
Sonnet G3/500 for WallStreet - $200
Sonnet G4/500 for WallStreet - $350
The G3/500 is a decent bump in speed- about 50-60% overall in
everyday use from a G3/266 but the G4/500 is not worth the $$.
Instead sell the Wallstreet for ~$200 and use the total $550 to buy
an iBook G3/800 which will be faster for almost everything and have
built-in 100bT, USB, FW. You give up SCSI, ADB and monitor
spanning for video out (which can be hacked back in to the iBook-
after all that's what we're doing with XPF).
It's all about what's the right use of the $$ for you.
Very true.
I decided several months ago that the right use of the $$ for me was
to spend them on a closeout dual 2.0 G5 (8 memory slots! PCI-X!
Several hundred $$ less than the new and inferior dual 2.0 model!
Same price as a 12" PowerBook!). A few of the things that I do need
all the CPU power I can throw at them and I'd previously only been
able to use my Athlon 3200 Linux box for them. Everything else that
I do runs just fine on 266 or 300 MHz if you have enough RAM. In
fact what I have been using for the past seven years is a 266 MHz
PDQ, not 300 MHz. One of its screen hinges broke several months ago
and I've been trying to figure out what to do about it. Then
recently I had the chance to obtain the 300 MHz PDQ in as-new
condition and good battery for NZ$250 (US$175). That would be a
risky deal by itself, given its age, but combined with my existing
machine I now have the confidence of having a nearly 100% set of
spare parts to see me through until I can get a PowerBook that is in
the same speed range as my G5 (as a friend's 1.8 GHz Centrino is).
I also have a great many SCSI peripherals that are still useful and
the PDQ is the only machine I have with a SCSI port. I also need
something capable of talking to my GPS to download glider contest
tasks and upload and analyze flight logs, and the PDQ is the only
machine (Mac, at least) I have with a serial port.
There is no way I'd spend money on an upgrade to 400 or 500 MHz. It
wouldn't make a difference. On the other hand, if I found someone
with a low profile 256 MB PC66/PC100 module for a reasonable price
then I'd grab that.
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