I recently added a G3 450 sonnet processor upgrade to my 7300/180 at work. I saw and improvement but I guess not as much as I hoped for. I had 128megs of ram of assorted sizes. Yesterday I added two 128mb sticks of ram and now have over 360megs installed. I also added 2megs more of video ram.
Man this thing really flies now. What a difference ram does make. I was skeptical but not any more. I am able to assign larger quantities of memory to all my applications. At work I typically have open at the same time is excel, netscape, explorer, and vpc. Sometimes acrobat reader and graphic convertor as well. Now the pop open fast and the internet comes right up and the pages load fast. I am most impressed by VPC's speed improvement. A program I need to use to access over inventory and point of sale system. My next improvement is to swap out the original scsi hard drive and see what kinda improvement I get. True it is no where near what the DP 1ghz mac runs at on the sales floor but still impressive. I would put the performance at closer to or above the new flat panel Imac at 800mhz 256mb on our sales floor. This is observed speed not speed processing processor intensive tasks. I am running 9.1 on my 7300, and the Imac is running 10.1.4. To me the Imac has always seemed sluggish running OS X. My feeling is that down the road the performance will go up as OS 10 matures. Windows don't pop up very fast, Itunes takes awhile to load, and Explorer practically crawls accessing the web. The 800mhz PIII Gateway demo sitting next to the Imac surfs really fast so we use that one when looking up things for customers. Guess which one sells though. (Hint: not the one whose name starts with G, in fact since we picked up the line more than a year ago and we are supposed to get a rebate check back from them for every unit sold on a quarterly basis. And the grand totals of the checks has been nada, zip, zero, nothing. Actually the University provides us the demos and we put them on demo as political placating thing, we sell Apple and that is our bread and butter through and through. So goes the fortunes of Apple so goes our fortunes. We are up in sales this year considerably due to Apple and their cool new products) I am now going to get more memory for my other legacy macs. -- Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. ******************************** Chris S. Loehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://union.ksu.edu/CompStore/main.htm Computer Buyer/ Store Manager K-State Union Computer Store 115 K-State Union Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506 785-532-7319 785-532-2388 fax 1-800-KSU-CATS out of town customers ******************************** -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | SPECIAL LIST PRICES - Apple PCI Video Cards from $19.99, MacOS 8.5 CD $79.99 Replacement Parts IN STOCK, Apple CDROMs from $19.99 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
