>Colin W.. wrote:
> > I require a second (actually third) mac and am looking at buying an
> > inexpensive one and adding upgrades.
> >
> > 1. What would be the best and easiest computer to upgrade with G3/G4 card
> > and possibly usb, firewire and maybe later an ide card. I am
>considering
> > 7300/7500 or 7600 are there any others.
Get a beige G3, they are dirt cheap now. I don't know what the
situation is like in the US, as I haven't been tracking your prices,
but in Australia they are trading around $100 of your American
dollars.
66mHz bus, G3 onboard, upgradeable to a 533mHz G4 with a simple card
swap. Decent video acceleration, IDE built in, cheap
industry-standard RAM, OS X native. 4-6 gigs of drive space, a
reasonably fast CD drive, and some with Zip drives. You can't lose.
Starting with a 73/5/600, by the time you've added a G3 card, the
fancy-pants RAM those older machines use, and either a large SCSI
hard drive or an ATA card and HD, you'll end up paying way more.
USB and Firewire will cost the same either way, and not much at that.
Clae.
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