Jeff Drummond wrote at 16:33 -0500 on 09/25/03 about Re: Surfing woes on a WGS 7350
Eugene Gierson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Assuming your computer is a 7500, 7600, 8500, 8600, etc., get a G3 accelerator, 400 or 450 MHz. These are about $120. [or less]. [www.OtherWorldComputing.com] Also, you will get a speedup from a video card. Mine is an 8 MB iXMicro Ultimate Rez.
These 2 improvements will noticeably speed up your Web Surfing experience.
But, keep in mind that a 1GHz eMac is $899, refurbished, at www.AppleStore.com Look in the SPECIALS section, bottom let corner of the webpage. Such a G4 machine is a big improvement.
Frankly, a video card is the last thing I'd upgrade for web surfing. First I'd upgrade the internet connection, then memory, then CPU, then disk.
The biggest speed-up for web browsing on my 7300 was going from a modem to DSL. Adding memory and especially moving the browser cache files from disk into memory was another major boost (if your browser doesn't support an in-memory cache, it may still be better to set the size of the disk cache to zero if you have a broadband internet connection).
I guess I'll chime in with my 2�. I'd have to agree with Jeff. I went from a 56K to DSL and even my 6200CD cruises the web very comfortably. Along with increasing the RAM, if you don't have in, an L2 cache card helps a lot.
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