to upgrade or buy emu?
er, anew.
Anyhow,
My beige G3 is kinda tired. He's got 320mb ram in him, an 8gb hard drive, cd-rom, zip and a very average / below average video card. Could probably sell him for $200-$300 on fleabay from the looks of things.
I could either put in a G4/450 Upgrade Card for ~ $250 + a 20-40GB hard drive for ~ $75 + a CD-RW ($150 ?), for a total of around $500. I'd probably want to upgrade the video too, bringing the total cost to $600. So for $600 (i think) i could have:
G4 450
~ 30GB Hard Drive
320MB ram
CD-RW
Radeon Graphics
or i could throw the whole thing in and get this from smalldog.com for $799:
Graphite iMac
G3 600Mhz
256MB ram
40GB Hard Drive
CD-RW
??? Graphics
if i could get $200 for my powermac as is, that would mean my total cost for the imac would shrink to $599.
The imac uses a 100mhz system bus and the beige powermac a 66mhz system bus. Would a G4 450 on a 66mhz bus run better or worse than a G3 600mhz on a 100mhz bus? Plus, how would graphics card performance play into all of this.
I would be doing the upgrading so i could install OS X, because I am using 9.2.2 and seem to be the last of a dying breed.
Advice on which way to go here? Another thing to consider is I have a 19" AppleVIsion plopped on my desk and I don't know what i would do with it...probably not worth selling on ebay.
Help!
Anyhow,
My beige G3 is kinda tired. He's got 320mb ram in him, an 8gb hard drive, cd-rom, zip and a very average / below average video card. Could probably sell him for $200-$300 on fleabay from the looks of things.
I could either put in a G4/450 Upgrade Card for ~ $250 + a 20-40GB hard drive for ~ $75 + a CD-RW ($150 ?), for a total of around $500. I'd probably want to upgrade the video too, bringing the total cost to $600. So for $600 (i think) i could have:
G4 450
~ 30GB Hard Drive
320MB ram
CD-RW
Radeon Graphics
or i could throw the whole thing in and get this from smalldog.com for $799:
Graphite iMac
G3 600Mhz
256MB ram
40GB Hard Drive
CD-RW
??? Graphics
if i could get $200 for my powermac as is, that would mean my total cost for the imac would shrink to $599.
The imac uses a 100mhz system bus and the beige powermac a 66mhz system bus. Would a G4 450 on a 66mhz bus run better or worse than a G3 600mhz on a 100mhz bus? Plus, how would graphics card performance play into all of this.
I would be doing the upgrading so i could install OS X, because I am using 9.2.2 and seem to be the last of a dying breed.
Advice on which way to go here? Another thing to consider is I have a 19" AppleVIsion plopped on my desk and I don't know what i would do with it...probably not worth selling on ebay.
Help!
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