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Nick Moulton wrote:
I'm ... new to Macs, and have enjoyed [my] 7200 ...
bought a few weeks ago. However ...lack of performance is ... annoying me. I've looked at its' upgrade path..., but I want
...advice on whether it is ... worth it. For AU$637 (around $420 US?) I
worked out I could install:
Sonnet G3 400
extra 256mb RAM (total then being 288mb)
ATI Radeon 7000 PCI video card
USB+Firewire card
Quantum 18.3GB 7200rpm SCSI HD
Would this make my mac a decent everyday computer for internet, MS Office
and listening to MP3s/watching downloaded DIVX movies? Or would it be a
better bet to find a b/w G3 tower and spend a little money on that?
Also, would the above config run OS X ok?
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