If you want to turn your 190 into a 5300, you can do it just as easily by buying a 5300 motherboard and installing it into your 190 case, as to try to find one of those upgrade cards which are very rare. The 190 and 5300, as I understand it, are basically the same system with a different CPU attached.
If you are running 68K programs, the 190 can actually be faster than a 5300 because of the latter's lack of an L2 cache. For a 5300 to run optimally, you need to stick to PPC-native apps and run OS 8.1 with Speed Doubler, or max out the RAM and run 8.6. OS 8.6 is a resouce hog, but can be dealt with by culling all the unnecessary extensions. You can even run 9.1, although not great, if you do that. I have a 5300c/100 with 40 megs of RAM; it stays at 8.1 with Speed Doubler. If I had a 190, I would also run it at 8.1, which is very usable on a late-model 68K 'Book. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
