Jess Batiz wrote:
> --- Grayson W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > One thing you could also do is buy a used B&W
> > "Yosemite" G3. That machine
> > was kind of a bridge between the Old World and New
> World machines. It comes with USB and FireWire
> controllers on-board, but it also comes with an ADB
> port for your old peripherals. Finally, it has a
> faster system bus (100MHz) and RAM for it is much
> cheaper than for your 9500 (it uses PC100 SDRAM),
> processor upgrades will be a fair amount easier and
> cheaper (due to the ZIFsocket) and faster (due to the
> higher bus speed).Finally, they go for around $700
> today--much less than a new G4. As you said, if your
> CPU is fast enough already, then the stock 300-450MHz
> 750 in a Yosemite will be more than enough.
>
> Thanks Grayson. That was very helpful info. I'm
> going to look into the Yosemite G3 models and also at
> their G4 upgrade cards. You brought up a good point
> in that it has ADB connectivity. . .I still use and
> will need my adjustable keyboard. Either way, the
> obvious future with Macs is Mac OS X. And with
> support from Sonnett for all the macs not supported by
> Apple, I think I don't have much to worry about no
> matter what I do -- keep my 9500 and/or upgrade to a
> newer Mac. In the end, I'll still be able to run OS X
> and take advantage of the latest firewire/USB
> technology. Thanks again,
Jess,
I agree with Grayson. If you don't want the fastest and latest state of the
art Mac, than go for the Blue & White G3.
I have one, a 350 Mhz and love it. It does everything I want to do
(Photoshop, XPress, GoLive etc and FPS games) and love the B&W case, better
than the G4, well the QuickSilver G4 looks nice too :-) I have to mention
this: if you go for a B&W G3 make sure it is a Revision B (2) or higher. The
first B&W G3s 300, 350 (like mine) and some 400 Mhz models were Rev. 1
meaning that the onboard IDE controller can't do master/slave for installing
more than one HD. So that you can't install more than one HD in it. BUT
Maxtor HDs work fine in a Rev.1 B&W, I have a Maxtor 30 gig as a slave
installed to the stock 6 gig.
So what I'm trying to say is, if you go for a B&W G3 go for the 450 Mhz
model, those are definitely Rev B or higher, than you're sure that you won't
have any master/slave problems.
Also IIRC the latest B&W model, thus the 450 Mhz, lacked the ADB port, or
was that the first G4? Can anyone confirm this?
Only if you are a heavy gamer I would recommend an AGP G4 instead of the
B&W. Although I play FPS games on my B&W with a Voodoo 5 5500 PCI card with
64 MB, I also have played FPS games @ work on a fast G4 with an AGP Geforce
2 card and that looked much much better with higher framerates. But hey you
can't have everything :-) But since you're not a heavy Mac gamer, but more a
PS2 gamer (play that too, damn GT3 looks nice :-) I recommend the B&W.
Just my 2 'stuivers'.
Marc
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