The bus speed of the 75,76, & 7300 is the same: 50.
The 75 & 7600 both have AV capability,
and you should get the cheepest, cuz you will be replacing the processor with a G3.
However, if you get a 7300, the harddrive will be bigger,
and this is probably more important than AV that your sister will Not use.
All have:
3 PCI slots
6 RAM slots
1 modem port
1 serial printer port
An external SCSI bus (7 devices) 5 MB / sec
An Internal SCSI bus ( i think this is also 7 devices) 10MB/second.
50 MHz bus
I say: get a 7300, cuz of its larger harddrive.
Remember:
--RAM is about $25 for 126 MB stick
--USB card is about $10. Get USB 1.1 (Avoid: USB 2. Also avoid a 4 port USB card.
Lots of the 4 port cards do not work.)
--www.OtherWorldComputing.com is a good place to shop for upgrades.
Jason White wrote:
> ...building my sister a computer . Within budget -- ... best ... is a PCI
> PowerMac, a slow
> G3 card, and 128M of RAM. Oh, and a USB card, for a more modern printer.
>
>... what's the difference between the 7300, 7500, and 7600? IIRC, the 7300 was
>fastest,
> but was that processor speed, or bus? ...one of these had A/V ports;
> this isn't something I see her using, but, why not get
> them?
>
> Do all these machines have the same bus speed? The same SCSI speed? The same
> amount of RAM slots? The same ports (and port speeds) in the back? Anything that
> would set one of these units apart
> from the others as more desireable? Less desireable?
>
> Thanks, J White
>
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