>A friend just gave me his old Power Mac 7300. I
>wasn't thinking too much about it. I figured I'd use
>the full keyboard, mouse, and 17" monitor with the
>docking station on my PB3400 and the 7300 itself would
>become a doorstop somewhere. (The 7300 has the same
>RAM and Processor speed as my PB3400, so why give up
>the portability.)
>
>Then I got to thinking... I can't upgrade my PB to a
>G3, or better yet, a G4, but for the 7300, there are
>plenty of daughter card upgrades.
>
>Can any of you recommend good cards vs bad cards,
>things to watch out for? I was thinking of going with
>the Sonnet G4 daughter card w/ a 1MB cache in either
>the 400Mhz or 800Mhz variety... Have any of you
>installed these and run into troubles that I should no
>about?
>
>My goal is to get OS X on it and have it run decently.
>(I think OS X runs a little slowly on a 266Mhz G3 so
>performance is an issue for me.
>
>Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>Cheers,
>Sionnach
I would have thought the XLR8 carrier card gives more options as you
can fit it with various Apple or XLR8 G3/G4 zifs - and secondhand zifs
are increasingly available.
Pete
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