But then so is the 1 Ghz G4 iBook...
The early B&W G3 towers have been so vilely slandered and denigrated for not being able to accept more than one hard drive unless a PCI card is installed that you should be able to get one really cheaply.
Get the 350 Mhz model and move the jumpers around on the little block beside the processor to increase the processor speed to 450 or 500 Mhz.
I have not installed Panther on my wife's Rev 1 B&W G3 (originally 350 MHz but dead solid at 450 MHz) because there are multiple systems on multiple hard drives and she won't let me muck with it.
Rats.
It runs a stock OS 9.1 on the original 6-Gig HD and 10.2.8 with OS9.2 on the other drives.
A Sonnet card of some sort allowed me to put a couple of 80-Gig Maxtor ATA drives into it.
I see these B&W boxes on eBay for about $200 to $250.
For running the UMAX scanner and using Kodak picture transfer software I prefer her 450 Mhz B&W G3 with 448 MB of RAM to my own PCI Mac, an old Daystar Genesis MP 800+ which has a similar Sonnet ATA interface card and 1.5 Gigs of RAM and a 800 MHz G4 Sonnet Crescendo processor card.
M
On Saturday, April 3, 2004, at 06:32 PM, Tom W. wrote:
Also, is there any particular configuration of B&W to look for (or avoid)
and I am interested in hearing from someone who's stuffed a 700 mhz
processor or bigger into their G3 beige. Are there any noticeable handicaps
when running X?
Thanks for any info Tom
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