Hi Bill Unlike the desktop G3s and the older pci Macs, the B&W G3 has a fairly fast 100 MHz system bus. A G4 450 should run about as well as in the G4 Cube, since the Cube has avery slow hard drive and your B&W has a fast SCSI HD. The SCSI drive will not pull from the Processor the way a IDE does. OWC (www.macsales.com) is selling G4 450s (PowerLogix) for about $250. The G4 Velocity unit will help with the OS X overhead. The G4 is much better than the G3 for Photoshop work, also.
I would probably run from the SCSI and use the IDE as storage and to hold smaller, non graphics applications. I run OS X on a B&W stock 350/1 mb cache with 7200rpm 133 IDE drives on a ATA 133 card and is quite usable for my lighter print graphics work. The same speed processor on a beige desktop G3 with a stock hard drive is much slower, too slow for graphics use in OS X. Roger ************************************** Bill Bradford wrote: >Recently bought my first "Tower" Mac, a G3 Blue and White (ordered >a 300/128/10G/CD/USCSI). I've been using a G4 Cube running OS X (first >10.0 now 1.1.5) for almost a year now. > >The G3/300 is a bit slower than I'd like, so I'm considering CPU upgrades. > >However, I'm debating between a 500Mhz G3 and a 350Mhz G4. Both run >around $199-250; both have 1M of L2 cache. > >Most of what I'll be doing with this system is scanning and minor photoshop >work. I'll have at least 768M of RAM, and a fast IDE hard drive (7200RPM). > >Suggestions? Comments from people who have upgraded their B&W G3s? > >Bill > > > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
