I have a G3 Lombard with 333 MHz processor and 192 MG memory. I would like to upgrade the processor & memory, anyone have any suggestions? This is my first MAC. Thanks.
Yowzer. In all honesty, save your money. I am typing this on a 400Mhz pismo, but for the money you will be throwing at it, it is worth getting a used mac mini instead.
I have a 333Mhz Beige G3 running 10.4.3 and that is sloooow. It was fun for a while but you have some pretty serious hardware limitations in that laptop mainly RAM, graphics card, and a biggie: Bus speed. 66 vs 100 makes a big difference with OS X. (The fact that you notice things that minute as bus speed makes you wonder how slow it is.)
Simple speed boosts:
Max the RAM
Faster hard drive
A half-decent CPU upgrade is not really worth the price in my opinion.
There's not a whole lot you can do to a Lombard that will make it useful with modern software. Consider for a second that your Lombard has a slower chip in it than what a lot of modern cell phones have.
Consider for a second that your Lombard has a slower chip in it than what a lot of modern cell phones have.
I would say after reading that my teeth were nashing but the truth is, it felt like a big stomp on the nut bag. Sometimes I wonder where the time went between now and when SJ was on stage announcing the G4 was going in the iMac G4 with everyone thinking that yeah, the G4 rules.
Thanks Ebby, I figured it probably would not be worth putting money into it. I'm trying to get away from Microsoft and I bought this MAC on eBay, not realizing I should have bought a newer MAC. Thanks again for your reply.
Gretchen
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Originally posted by Ebby
Yowzer. In all honesty, save your money. I am typing this on a 400Mhz pismo, but for the money you will be throwing at it, it is worth getting a used mac mini instead.
I have a 333Mhz Beige G3 running 10.4.3 and that is sloooow. It was fun for a while but you have some pretty serious hardware limitations in that laptop mainly RAM, graphics card, and a biggie: Bus speed. 66 vs 100 makes a big difference with OS X. (The fact that you notice things that minute as bus speed makes you wonder how slow it is.)
Simple speed boosts:
Max the RAM
Faster hard drive
A half-decent CPU upgrade is not really worth the price in my opinion.
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I have a 333Mhz Beige G3 running 10.4.3 and that is sloooow. It was fun for a while but you have some pretty serious hardware limitations in that laptop mainly RAM, graphics card, and a biggie: Bus speed. 66 vs 100 makes a big difference with OS X. (The fact that you notice things that minute as bus speed makes you wonder how slow it is.)
Simple speed boosts:
Max the RAM
Faster hard drive
A half-decent CPU upgrade is not really worth the price in my opinion.
There's not a whole lot you can do to a Lombard that will make it useful with modern software. Consider for a second that your Lombard has a slower chip in it than what a lot of modern cell phones have.
Originally posted by Splinemodel
Consider for a second that your Lombard has a slower chip in it than what a lot of modern cell phones have.
I would say after reading that my teeth were nashing but the truth is, it felt like a big stomp on the nut bag. Sometimes I wonder where the time went between now and when SJ was on stage announcing the G4 was going in the iMac G4 with everyone thinking that yeah, the G4 rules.
Gretchen
Originally posted by Ebby
Yowzer. In all honesty, save your money. I am typing this on a 400Mhz pismo, but for the money you will be throwing at it, it is worth getting a used mac mini instead.
I have a 333Mhz Beige G3 running 10.4.3 and that is sloooow. It was fun for a while but you have some pretty serious hardware limitations in that laptop mainly RAM, graphics card, and a biggie: Bus speed. 66 vs 100 makes a big difference with OS X. (The fact that you notice things that minute as bus speed makes you wonder how slow it is.)
Simple speed boosts:
Max the RAM
Faster hard drive
A half-decent CPU upgrade is not really worth the price in my opinion.