I love my two Beige G3s, highly upgradable, not expensive to upgrade, run 9 and X very well.
I have upgraded my DT to a 400 from a 233 G3 [can be done for under $75 at this point, if you need the name of a place just ask], drop in SCSI or IDE/ATA hard drives, a Rage128 video card is really the best upgrade for Mac OS X, they can be had for $40. Basically a Beige G3 is a great upgrade in my mind. Out of the box [with say 128MB of RAM, standard PC-66, 100, or 133] it will do most everything in OS 9. If you want to go to OS X, about $125 in upgrades and perhaps some RAM will make it a strong OS X Mac also, very flexible, good life span. David PS Do look for a rev. 2 or later [Rage Pro graphics chip onboard] as rev.1s do not support slave drives and if you ever want a second ATA hard drive it is nice not to have to buy an ATA card to do it. On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 04:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was thinking of upgrading from my 7200/75 running OS8.6 to a Beige > G3,running OS 9 and going to broadband.This way I can keep my monitor > and printer. > Is this a good idea ? > Waht do people think of the Beige G3s. > Are there any pitfalls to be aware of? > Is memory better priced than the FPM stuuf my 7200 uses. > Ian -- 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! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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
