unless you get it really cheap.
For the price of most upgrade CPU's you can buy a used B&W which has USB and
Firewire built in as well as a 100MHz bus speed.
Your beige G3 with a 500MHz CPU will never be as fast as a factory 500MHz Mac.
The beige G3 also has an IDE controller that is slow and funky to say the least,
no USB, but can be added for $20.00. The beige G3 has a 66MHz bus which is a
bottleneck for a faster processor.
My point is....for the price of an upgrade you can buy a used Mac that will kicks it's butt.
I don't know much about iMacs other than they are better than the beige machines,
but the iMac is an expensive Mac to upgrade.
I would sell it, give it away or find a use for it, buy a B&W or Yikes G4 for $200.00 or
less and you can run OS X with no problems which is another plus.
I've had 2 beige G3's and still have one but I would never spend much money on that
particular Mac because it was not really made as well as it should have been.
Ron
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 12:50 PM, Nina Sutcliffe wrote:
Hello,
I'm new to the list here. I have a Beige G3/266Mhz with 320 megs ram and I'd
like to upgrade it to a G4. I've heard that it can be upgraded to a G4/500
but the problem for running certain programs is that it lacks a USB port. My
model also doesn't have an internal modem. My mac tech thinks it's a waste
of time and money to do an upgrade, but I'm wondering. It's a solid machine
other than the fact that it can't run some of the newer software that
requires G4.
Does anyone here have any experience doing this and could offer either ideas
or resources for doing so? Other than installing more memory and a clock
battery once, I've never done the work inside a machine, but since the only
other option seems to be to sell it on Ebay for $25, I figure it's worth a
try!
I also have 2 imacs one a G3/233 and the other a G3/350. Would I be smarter
to try and upgrade one of those rather than the beige?
Thanks so much!
Nina
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