At 13:30 -0700 8/5/2001, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>No kidding. They can make me give up this 7300 + G3/500/1MB when they pry
>it from my cold, dead fingers. I didn't put 22GB of SCSI disks and 352MB
>of RAM in it just so I could chuck it all for The Next Big Thing(tm).
My needs for my 7300 were different, therefore my approach was different:
it did what I needed without a CPU upgrade, AND I needed it to be rock
solid.
I gave it 96 meg RAM (a little more would be nice, but this sort of RAM is
still pricey; I gave it a second internal drive (4 gig) to replace a full
smaller external drive, and then gave it a second 4 gig internal to replace
the failed original internal. And early on I gave it a NIC card because
the onboard ethernet was (and still is) broken; once I got the 533, I gave
the 7300 a 10/100 NIC (which cost less than the old NIC). And a USB card
(mostly so I could replace the failed original floppy drive, although I'm
using a USB mouse).
And that left me more or less able to afford a dual 533 last February. The
7300 is still my "main" machine...the one I sit in front of all day and
part of the night making money. The 533 is still the toy (now able to run
Mac OS X 10.0.4 much of the time)...that will probably change at Mac OS
10.1 time.
And Chris...I don't need anything prior to Mac OS 9.1 for Perl, but I know
others do.
--John
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John Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Port Ludlow, WA, USA
