On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 06:03 AM, James S Jones wrote:
> The 8500 was right on the heals of the 8100, but being it had major
> advances: PCI bus, 604(e) processors, etc. But, they weren't really in
> the same path. The 8100 is the PPC version of the Q800 and the 8500 is
> the PPC successor to the Q840AV. A much more capable machine...
8500 was good but still didn't have the AV features that the 840av had.
I was casually tooling about with my friends iBook and plugged the AV
into my Quadra and hey presto, OS X on a 68k Mac :). The video runs
better than the OS sometimes. Also the sound output is better than any
machine I have ever owned, over a HiFi a 44.1KHz AIFF sounds as good
thru an 840av as it does thru a CD player. I even decompressed an MP3
and played it back over the 840av as an AIFF and it sounded better than
the headphone port on my ibook by a country mile. I don;t think even the
8500av was that good, it also lacked a lot of the clever hardware video
widgets the 840av had.
> Are you on Vancouver Island? You might do well to come down here to shop
> for a machine. One or more local organization has recently dumped a lot
> of 8500s and 9500s on the used market.
Sounds like annual budget burn-off to me, just upgraded all there
machines to G4s....
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