In addition to FireWire, the other distinction seems to be
tray-loading vs slot-loading CD:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G3

And while the slot-loaders were faster than earlier versions, they are
still pretty minimal: 64 MB was default amount of RAM.

Regards,
- Robert

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Don Ellis <[email protected]> wrote:
> One thing to check on is whether they are Firewire equipped. That was a
> milestone, after which the units were MUCH more versatile (can connect fast
> external drives, etc), and also were much faster units that what went
> before.
> Most of the used G3 iMacs I've seen have NOT been Firewire.

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups)
Main page: http://www.cwelug.org
To post: [email protected]
To subscribe: [email protected]
To unsubscribe: [email protected]
More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to