Of course, and the G3 already has both IDE and SCSI on board. This makes the decision tougher.
> 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
