Your machine has plenty of useful life left in it. I run a no-frills, business from my home...have done so for 10 years. Before my recent upgrade, I was still using my stock S900 for graphic layout and pre-press production of printed documents.
Before the renewal, I was seriously contemplating getting something else. Similar to yours, it was a stock 604e/200 with 96M running OS 8.1--that was getting a bit tiresome to use. Many thanks to this group, I decided to keep it. For under $200 bucks I added a NEW Sonnet Crescendo G3/350/512 processor, a NEW WD 9G UltraWide SCSI drive for my boot drive (required a $12 68-to-50 pin adapter w/ high-byte termination), OS 9.1, two 128MB Mem sticks (total now is 352M), and a generic 10/100 ethernet card for faster Internet and networking with my PCs through my cable router. I couldn't be happier with the machine's zippy new performance. I figure I can use it for at least a year or two before donating or selling it. Let's put it this way...it's not worth much if you try to sell it and the upgrade components needed to get you up to snuff are cheap. Just my opinion. Bob At 12:11 PM 1/23/03 -0500, you wrote: >My daughter has finished college and returned home with her S900. It has the >original 604e 200 mhz processor, Original 2.1 GB SCSI harddrive, original >SCSI CDRom, 96 meg RAM, and IXMicro 8mb video. The only upgrade is a PCI USB >card. Running OS9.1. >The question: Should she upgrade processor, memory and drives, or just give >up the ghost? Any advice appreciated. > >Bill > > >-- >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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
