Clae.wrote: >Watching this thread with interest. At the last AUSOM swapmeet, I >picked up a dual-200mHz 604 card by Newer - with a honking great >heatsink on it. Later, a friend gave me a PowerBase 180 to play >with. The card fits in the slot, and I found the drivers to >download, but as yet I haven't got any further than that. > >The reasons for that are that I was thinking I could make this a >cheap, slow, OS-X box, but the memory limit on the PBase (160 megs), >and the expense of expanding it to that (currently on 64 megs), has >kind of put me off that idea. Also, the Newer card is about 2" too >high to fit in the slimline desktop case, so I'd have to remount the >PBase guts into a PC case. > >My impression was that OS 9 was not dual-processor aware, that the >applications themselves had to actively engage with the dual >processors, and that 160 megs is not really enough to run X. I don't >use Photoshop, I'm mostly audio and general mucking around, web >surfing etc, so how much use is this combination going to be for me? >What for example could I do with BeOS PPC, or Linux?
1. If you're thinking to play around with a PC case, why not do yourself a favour and pick up a cheap PowerWave or PowerTowerPro to play around with that card. The PowerBase was originally a 603e based unit built for the low end market using the same basic mobo as the Mac 6400 / 6500's. The PW's and PTP's are good for a few years yet, being OSX capable, and have enough rams slots (8) to make memory upgrades easy. 2. The height of the CPU is no problem on the bigger PW and PTP boxes. 3. The advantages of the dual or quad CPU's is restricted to the apps which are written to take advantage of that technology eg Photoshop. Cheers...Michael -- 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> --> 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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
