Well Bill,
I am a huge fan of the B&W G3. Why, because this Mac has never failed me
from day. I have owned 3 over the past 3 years. I used to have a 6500/250,
but got rid of it only after a year. It was the worst Mac I ever owned. It
spend more days in the repair shop then at home.
The B&W G3 is just a pleasure to use. It has such great upgrade potential.
You can upgrade the processor, has 3 PCI Slots, has 3 bays for additional
HDs, has 4 slots for ram. It runs OS 9.1 beautifully, along with the latest
software. Plus it you want to upgrade to OS X, no problem. You can even add
a G4 processor if you want.
Make sure you get a Rev B B&WG3. You will know it's a rev B, if it can
support two ATA drives on top of each other. A 350Mhz is not bad, but see if
you can get a 400Mhz. I have seen really good prices out there.
To see the upgrade potential of a B&W G3 I will lay out the specs for mine.
500Mhz G3 processor
1 GIG of ram
1 UltraSCSI Boot Drive
2 ATA Drives
1 Yamaha 16X CD Burner (Internal)
1 100MB Zip Drive
1 Radeon 32Mb PCI Card
1 Nexus 128 32MB PCI Card
1 Sound Blaster Live PCI Card
2 Apple 17" Monitors
You get the idea.
Aaron
on 9/13/01 9:40 AM, Bill Arnold at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Would really appreciate any comments pro or con from members re G3 B&Ws.
>
> Currently I am running a 6500/250, 8.6 and have an opportunity to pick up a
> B&W 350.
>
> What's good and what's to watch for?
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