>Chuck Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 16:18:00 -0400
>
> Hello people,
>
>I am new to this MacList thing. I have a factory UMAX J700 with a NEWER 750
>G3 processor w/ 208mb of RAM. Just purchased a 9.1 G Seagate Barracuda
>Hard drive(yet to be installed). I have read the posts about osX on the
>S900. Is it possible to install OSX on the UMAXJ700?
>
>Chuck
>Overaged college student and aspiring graphic artist
>Columbus,Ohio
Welcome to the group!
A J700 = S900 tower laying on it's side! While it is the same
motherboard etc. 2 of the PCI slot plugs were left out(an expert can
add them) and the 2nd cpu slot has also been left off. It to could be
added but why ?It is only for a second 604e cpu for multiprocessing
which is of limited use for most people. Also no other cpu can be
used in this slot. So in short nearly anything you read about the
S900 is also true for the J700.
If you are a careful shopper and upgrade over time you can
save money over buying a new machine and or space the spending out.
The machine is very usable as is. However you can also spend a ton on
upgrades if your not careful. I am really happy with my J700 machine
which has run OSX in it's many forms for nearly two years!
http:eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostfacto/
Will get you the software and likely all the info you need to run OSX
on your J700 Umax machine. Most of these machines came with Twin
Turbo Video cards which are one of the best for installing OSX. You
can also use either the SCSI hard drive which came with the machine
which is connected to the on board SCSI bus (which the CDrom player
is also hooked to for help figuring out which it is) or an add on ATA
PCI card which lets you use cheap ATA/IDE drives.Many high end
machines came with the E100 SCSI/ fast Ethernet card. This is a
really good fast SCSI card which I think uses 64 pin SCSI drives. It
however doesn't work with OSX. This card is in the PCI slot 1 if you
have it and it's easy to spot because if you have it you will see
that on back of the machine that you have 2 Ethernet plugs. One is
built in to the machine the other is part of the E100 card. Best of
luck. Will S
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