>Hi Ray,
>
>I am writing from Perth, Western Australia, and since I have a 7300/200 I was
>interested to see you have put in A sonnet card in the same type Mac.
>
>Could you please tell me just how much better you find your modified
>combination .
>
>Is it worth the dollars or are you now of the opinion that it makes
>more economic
>sense to buy a G3 ?
IMHO a G3 B&W is a much more sound investment, although I wouldn't
turn my nose up at a cheap Beige G3, just depends on your market
place and cash quota. It will cost you as much (if not more if you
find a cheap G3 DT) to add a big HD, USB, FireWire and a G3 CPU
upgrade to a 7x00 series as it would to buy a G3 B&W, when you add it
to the value of the machine. I know - been there, done that. I just
gave up, sold my 7500 for what I could and bought a G3 B&W 400MHz. As
a case in point, the upgrades + base system of my 7500 cost �650 to
build up and it didn't run OS X, have FireWire or go very fast
(despite the G3/375 in it) and it only had a tiny, slow 512MB HD in
it. My B&W G3 is a 400MHz machine but seems like an 800MHz compared
to my old 7500, it has a stock 6GB hard disk (and a 10GB I added from
a PC), it has USB, FireWire, 10/100 LAN, a 16MB Graphics card, it
came with 128MB but takes standard PC100 or PC 133 RAM so it now has
576MB! All that (including the RAM) probably cost me about �600. You
see where I'm coming form?
YMMV
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