a)These are all nice upgrades that should work smoothly with the S900. b)additional upgrade for the S900 has more potential in the way of ram slots and pci slots and bays. How much ram and video ram are possible upgrades and costs that one might incur. 5volt ram is pretty cheap now, I have even seen a 5volt ram that runs at 10ns. Even a Voodoo 5 card had official mac drivers when 3dfx was still in business as a company. ATI always seems to have mac support too. These upgrades would still be quite less than a new eMac. The one thing that will suffer between the S900 and the eMac is the S900's bus speed. So far, I can only run a 55Mhz system bus speed with no problems. An eMac has a system bus speed of 100Mhz. Has anyone on the SM list been able to tweak out their S900 to run faster than 55Mhz? And at 55Mhz, it is still a 22% increase in bus speed over stock. And being stuck to a built-in17" monitor on the eMac is a downgrade from your Radius Pressview 21". USB upgrades are still another possible option with the S900 also. c)I would install any internal SCSI cd burner that is supported by both FWB cd-rom toolkit and Roxio's Toast 5 titanium. I run a Matshita CD-R CW-7502. It is a bit older & slower, but I have had no problems with it's compatibility. I use the FWB drivers and extensions and Toast just works with it when I run the application. d) Please refer to FWB and Toast 5 Titanium compatibility for cd burner options. Make sure that both Programs support the unit and you should have no problems. As always, a faster one with more cache is better.
Hope this helps... "Stephen L. Phillips" wrote: > Given the dismal potential for resale of my beloved S900, I'm > considering giving the system to my son: What do you as a group think of > the feasibility of: > a) installing a Sonnet G4/800 board in the following system?: S900/233 > (stock), Matshita 506 CD (stock), 3 internal HD's (2-10,000 rpm > Cheetahs, 1-WDE 10,000 rpm for a total of @20G's), SyJet 1.5 G internal, > SyQuest 270M external, Radius Pressview 21" monitor, Epson Stylus Color > 900 printer, Epson Expression 636 and Umax VistaScan scanners, Paperport > Vx scanner, running OS 8.6 and 9.1? > b) Will he face additional upgrade requirements (and expenses), and will > these costs exceed that of replacing the entire system with something > new - say, an iMac G4/800 w/17" monitor? > c) If you believe it's worth installing the Sonnet 800, what CD burner > recommendations would you have to replace the stock Matshita CD? > d) Does your suggested drive come with all necessary software? > As always, your collective knowledge and suggestions would be most > gratefully appreciated! > Steve Phillips > Two Harbors, Minnesota > > -- > SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | > Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:supermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:supermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:supermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> > Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > >The Think Different Store > http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:supermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:supermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:supermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
