Mr. Stauss and Mr. Gerber have given you good advice. It all depends on how much gold you wish to invest in your Edsel.
I said, to my self, "Go for it, Scattercash! To hell with it.", I loved my trusty old PCP 240 and bought a Sonnet 500 G3 Accel. Bd., 512MB Ram, USB, Fire Wire etc., for it. Then obtained a PTP 225 (It was too cheap and Michaael had been singing their praises). It's only money... So,for my PTP, I bought a PowerLogix G4 board ($295.00) ... and most earnestly wish I had gone with my experience and paid the extra "c" note or so for a Sonnet. They now have an 800MHz G4 accelerator board for your PTP. Since you are using both Photo Shop and Bryce, more RAM helps loads. I bought Eight (8) 158mb dimms from OWC and put in my PTP. That's one GIG. The speed difference is tremendous on some Programs. Photo Shop and Bryce should be two of them. AppleWorks 6.2 scrolls so fast, it's agravating. Faster than my 700MHz eMac. I can tell no difference running Norton Utilities, Disk Doctor (I put in a larger HD so that may be why) but the defrag tool is much faster. OS 9.1 is wonderful. OS 9.2 is for running on the same disk with OS X. I can tell no advantage of OS 9.2 over 9.1.4. In fact OS 9.1.4 or 9.2 is so neat, I only experiment with OS X when I've time to burn. With Os 9.1 & 9.2 you can assign programs to the "F" keys. I push "F1" and it opens Netscape 7 which dials my ISP automaticly... On Line, "ZIP POP!" ... as brother Dave used to say. If there is something on an Email or web site I wish to copy, merely highlight and copy. Then push "F5" and AppleWorks opens a template, I created, with 1/2" borders. " Need a spread sheet? Push"F6"! "F3" opens TexEdit and so forth. With Applework's macros you can do many more time saving things. (No Macros with OS X) I take the AWUG journal and there are letters of folk moaning over the loss of the Macro feature with OS X. The Folk at MacHome are mentally masturbating over OS X and phasing out OS 9.1. I plan to discontinue my Subscription to any entity that abandons OS 9 ... and that most certainly includes AWUG. You can install a Sonnet USB/ Fire wire PCI card ($99.95)and use faster CD-RW, printers extra hard drives. there are even FireWire Raid set ups . A Sonnet IDE PCI card ($89.95) will allow you to run larger (and cheaper Hard drives). A Mag brand, 19" Monitor set me back 149.95 at compUSA. With the USB, a digital Camera, color Ink Jet Printer, color scanner and a B/W Laser Printer for Documents ... You can Boogie on. RHB ****************** Dalton James wrote: > Hi All, > I've been using Photoshop 6.0 a lot lately and my machine is a bit slow for > what I want to do with it. I've also just recently got Bryce 4.0, and for > those of you that have used it know what I mean. Sl-l-l-o-o-o-w-w-w! So I > would like some suggestions on what is the best route on how to do that. > I'm running System 8.6 on my PowerComputing PTP 225 mhz with 208 megs of > physical ram. I guess a faster processor and more ram would be the ticket. I > know what kind of ram to get but I'm a bit confused on what kind of > processor card to get. I think 400 mhz would be fine. > Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Dalton > > > Please visit my web site @ www.earthstonearts.com > > -- 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:powercomputing@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:powercomputing-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:powercomputing-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
