>> $105 to Mike...KC? Any others? >> >> >>> $105 plus shipping...8>) > > > going...going...?
...A hundo and a five spot, that's like attaching speaker wire to my eyeballs and crankin' the volume to full. I hate to sound whiney, but there's a PowerTower Pro 225 on Ebay going for $250. Course it works and all...but to fix this one I understand it could cost as low as $75. Everything else works on the machine, all the RAM (192MB), the video card (Twin-Turbo, original), the Hard Drive (8Gigs), the CD ROM (24x). It even comes with an extra SCSI Card (for a total of 2 slots) and a USB expander card. To all of you who offered to help me out with 604e processors, thank-you very much. Unfortunately, the machine is used for a much more processor intensive task. Video Editing. So I would have to at least replace the fried card at a minnimum of 400Mhz, which costs in the $300 range. 500Mhz cards are in the $400's. This machine, (and all PowerComputing computers) is starting to fail the test of time. Towards the end, as I updated to newer video editing programs, I noticed a lag in performance. I also do not have the time, nor the smarts, to research bringing this machine back to an acceptable level of operation with little headache. It's served me well for the two and a half years I've had it, but it's already long past the brink of cutting edge, nor can you bring it to cutting edge without spending a boatload of greenbacks. Cost prohibitive, considereing you can get a speed spewing system (one of the best in the consumer market) for about $4,000 and just let it ride for the next two years. How much longer could I squeeze out of this system? Not much I think. The loan on the box is paid off, so I'll figure I'll just get a new system. One that'll go at top performance for another two and a half years, maybe even beyond. And let's be honest, OS X is Apple's future. X is not going to work on the PowerTower's without having to jump through some serious hoops of hacking and res-editing, (I don't have the time, nor the smarts, for THAT either). But a hundred and five dollars, that just torques me. Further proof these machines can no longer run with the pack, efficiently. I'm sorry Mike, But to appease my raging "just got hosed" feeling, I would need at LEAST $200. A steal for you because I KNOW you already have the piece of required equipment to fix it (or at least know where you can get it for damn near nothing). Otherwise it's going to become a "previously high cost" mantle piece, which I will decorate during the holiday's and curse at it on the weekends, sort of a love-hate but mostly hate relationship... Screaming D'oh!, Cody... -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> 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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
