http://lowendmac.com/ppc/deals.html
Scroll down toward the bottom of the page. You will find prices that
(after a little thought) might be in your budget range.
Jerry
On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 12:08 AM, Tiffany Cox wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be April 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
>
>
>
| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
| be April 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
