On Sunday, September 14, 2003, at 03:02 PM, Roger Houghton wrote:
On Sunday, September 14, 2003, at 02:48 pm, Brian Steere wrote:
In the UK these cost almost or sometimes more than a G4
Are there significant advantages or even disadvantages with the older G4
minitower and the blue and whites?
The G4s don't have ADB but apart from that I'd say they were at least as good and probably better.
The Yikes! G4 (350MHz or 400MHz) is often hard to sell as it doesn't have AGP and shares the same architecture as the G3 B&W. This tends to drive the price down as people can get AGP Sawtooth or DA G4s for a little extra and generally do so. B&W G3s are however ever popular machines with lots of potential and can be upgraded to either a 500MHz G4 or an 800MHz G3 using third party CPU upgrades.
The only downers with Yikes! and B&W systems is they do not feature 'deep sleep' mode that is utilised on newer machines that deactivates all the fans in sleep mode. This makes them noisy and not a great system to leave on 24/7. There is also the obvious issue that you can't get AGP graphics cards in them so you are limited to a Radeon 7000 ME at most.
I'm not planning on selling my B&W anytime soon however - It's running Jaguar as a File Server. They are still good machines and I firmly believe I can find mine a job on my network as my G4 iMac has taken dibs on all my DTP & Web stuff.
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