I have a G3/500 w/ 12 GB hard drive and 256 MB of RAM running 9.2.2. I have a new Lacie 160 GB Firewire hard drive for backups and digital files. What should I buy to accomplish a satisfactory upgrade to OS 10.3?
And how much should I budget for RAM, new hard drive and program?
I just paid $187.00 for 2 sticks of 512 to get a GiG of Memory for my third pismo.. Got it from DMS, thats up a little bit from a year ago but not too bad. You will really see a difference, especially if you go to 10.3 with the ram
www.DataMem.com
I do not work for them or anything like that but 6 orders and no problems and fair shipping to Alaska works for me. Os 10 seems to be a little picky sometimes when it comes to RAM so wherever you buy it be sure of their sales policy, return policy, and customer install policy. I do not like buying RAM second hand unless it's one of my non critical computers.
Hard drive 5400 40 gig used to be IBM but now are Hitachi $150.00
http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=6336&Item=HIT08K0637
You can save 20 to 30 bucks and get a smaller drive but the 5400 speed really helps, plus I like OWCs return policy. Meaning they are pretty good about it. I have had some snags but OWC always made up for any short comings..
You can go to eBay and find some lower prices, but when we are talking small prices $180 for new RAM, on eBay probably $120 for 2 sticks. To me it's not worth the problems unless I know the seller, if the ram is bad DMS is getting it back and sending some new sticks like the next day no problem
Hard drives, if your fixing this pismo to be your main machine, what me worry, no, I got the Hard Drive from OWC and their good about returns.
Now if your talking about hard drives for my older books and DTs then eBay can be a very good source LEM is the absolute best for price and honest helpful folks
So for $337.00 you will have a rock and rolling sleek black Pismo
and when the upgrades that the rumor mills have been floating about Newer techs upgrade past 900 that Pismo may just not be out of the race yet. I think it's the best book Apple has ever made to date. So spend the bucks, get a $30.00 to $50.00 fire wire enclosure for your old hard rive. Make sure it is a powered enclosure fun and have no worries. Now if the could only get more video ram, thats the real weak spot for OS 10
Good Luck, lots of deals out there but these are two very good ones, and OWC runs this very list another good reason to buy from them.
Geoff
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