>Hi everyone
>
>I am new to the list so excuse me if I tread on old territory.
>I just inherited a 6500/250 and I need to make do with it until Jan when I
>can afford a better MAC ( I've been on the PC for the last 13 years and I've
>had it)
>I must say that even the 6500 works better than my windoze machine except of
>course speed wise.
Welcome to the world of computers that just work! As for your
specific questions, I would suggest you head over to the 6400 zone
http://homepage.mac.com/zone6400/ which has lots of answers and
reports specific to the 6400/6500 computers (they are based on the
same motherboard).
>I ordered a G3/400 1m upgrade for it and 128mb of ram
>but I wanted to know if
>
>1.there was a video card upgrade that would let me use the machine @
>1280x1024
>2.how well do the USB/Firewire combo cards work in this thing
>3.Max size of harddrive and type this machine could take
>4.A way to network this to the PC to access my data
>I've looked into getting a 10/100 CommII NIC and using Dave but I want some
>feedback on that before i spend the cash. I am relatively Hardware/ Software
>savvy but havent deal much with macs until now...
>
>I am going to try to use this machine as stepping stone into the MAC world
>and with my rising need to create MAC native files (converting between macs
>and pcs is getting to be a pain)
>
>I mainly want this MAC for 2d design, webdesign, scanning, email and
>browsing. Am I asking to much of it?
>Any advice is greatly appricaited.After all these years on the PC is cant
>begin to express how much I love these machines.
>
>Thank you all
>Ethan
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