Hi,
I'm a fairly new mac user. I am a student at a Midway College in the
heart of the bluegrass, so all my money goes towards tuition and books.
;) Therefore, I bought a second hand 6500/250 and am trying to figure
out the cheapest way around buying a whole new computer. When I began
running my machine, it had OS 8.6 installed and so I went ahead and
installed Appleworks and other programs requiring at least 8.6. It ran
fine for a long while until it started freezing up on me. I then made
the mistake of doing a clean install. I did not consider that I only had
the Mac OS 8 CD and not the OS 8.5 CD. I went ahead and na?vely ebayed a
OS 9 CD and OS X CD with many (I suppose) cool accessories. I didn't
expect the OS X CD to really work, but I was really hoping the OS 9
would. Suffice to say, it does not!
Now for my question. Can anyone give me any hints as to how to
cheaply upgrade/replace my CPU as to get it to run at least OS 9 if not
OS X? I was sifting through eBay and xlr8yourmac.com, but my brain is
not working right or something and I don't want to pump any more money
than I have to into a machine that will not perform to my needs. Someone
on the xlr8yourmac site said that they upgraded to a G3/L2/400 CPU and
their 6500/250 would run OS 9 just fine. This all sounded like greek to
me. Specifically it was the details of "upgrade" and G3/L2/400 that
caught me off guard. All I know is the big box where you put the disk
needs to work better. I have some experience with taking apart computers
and making various components work on them, but I'm just not hip to the
lingo.
I have really fallen in love with Macs and don't want to switch back
to the evil Microsoft systems. I think I've finally frankensteined my
old pentium to death, anyway. Any pity taken on a poor struggling
student would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Tiffany
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