On Friday, August 06, 2004, at 08:37AM, Jonathan Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What are you sticking in your PCI ports? Ultra2Wide SCSI (40MB/s), USB 2.0 and a Radeon 7000 PCI fill 3 out of the 4 ports, the graphics card being obligatory of course :) >I have a B&W G3 450 OC'ed to 500MHz, you know what I use it for? >A print server. I don't want to sound like a Kiljoy, but that's a waste of a good Mac. >I have a 6500/225 it runs 9.2.2 you know what I use it for? >A MSN messenger server!!! > >My eMac, I use it for browsing the web, checking e-mail, and the >occasional typing things up. You could have saved yourself a packet if you'd put a 550MHz G4 in that B&W and some extra RAM, without degrading your user experience. I only have a G4/500 in my B&W and it does all my Photoshop/Illustrator/Dreamweaver work, of course the 1GB of RAM helps, but even that doesn't cost the earth. >I have a 540c laptop that runs 8.1 and I use it to download and create >Apple IIgs disks. I have a Powerbook 180 that I use as a Fax machine :) >I can understand someone using additional programs to do fancy things >like graphic designs and stuff like that, but what's up with the >additional pieces of hardware? The U2W SCSI is really to speed up the swap file speed in Adobe Apps. The onboard ATA33 is wretchedly slow for stuff like that. It also provides connectivity for my 230MB MO drive that I use for sotring photos and important data. The USB 2.0 is becuast I have a USB 2.0 onlt external; and had no Mac with USB 2.0 (I have a G4 iMac but it is a pre-USB 2.0/DDR model). The Radeon 7000 replaced the Rage128 to give me Quartz Extreme support to boost the GUI speed in OS X, and also provide more VRAM to cope withj running on my 19" CRT better. >Now my IIgs, thats another story, each of it's expansion slots are a >premium, only because I have to get my IIgs at least on par with my old >SE/30. I'm glad I'm not the only one who's SE/30s have all died. They are such great machines but so sadly flawed. It's kinda irritating! I have never even used an Apple // save for the Apple //e that I was given (complete with twin disk drive and green screen) and have done nothing with... -- Mark Benson http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson -- 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
