Hi all, May I solicit some input?
I bought these two Apple machines a few weeks ago for a good price. I need to sell one but I'd like to keep the other to put out in the shop for misc, testing and such. Don't have room for both. One is an apple G3 266 Tower and the other is a mighty 9600 with a 604e 200 mHz card. They are both in great shape and run perfect. Now I realize that both are upgradeable. I presently have two Supermac s900's. One running a G4 Sonnett and the other an XLR8 G3 400. I like the s900's because they are sooooo easy to work inside, not so with either of these Apples, mainly the RAM. I also realize they use different ram and cpu (zif vs. daughtercard) plus the 9600 will take a ton of ram. But most of my playing around would involve swapping hard drives and using different pci cards. Mainly to test drives. Obviously the 9600 has an xtra 3 pci slots over the G3. I guess it has a slower bus but I'm not quite sure what the diff is between Backside Bus Speed (133) and 'Lookaside' Bus Speed (46.6) is? So I guess the few things I'm wondering is if my upgrading the 9600 with say a G3 400 processor will show less a boost than the G3 with the same speed? Namely that 'Lookaside' Bus thing is throwing me. I think I'd like to keep the 9600 due to the xtra pci slots but is there any great bennies to keeping the G3 and upgrading it instead? Thanks for the help! Dave -- 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> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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 Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
