At 12:11 -0500 01/23/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. >
My opinion is that if she would want to upgrade many sub-systems then it makes sense to get a newer machine instead. Not necessarily a brand new machine, but there are some more recent machines on the used market, probably for less than upgrades to the old machine would cost. But there are always exceptions. For example, why does she want to upgrade at all? Is the machine still doing what she needs it to do? Perhaps, continuing to use the machine as is, is an option. Also, if she's familiar with this machine and doesn't want to learn her way around the hardware of a new machine, there's a benefit to keeping what she's familiar with. Finally, one advantage of upgrading is that one can spend a little money at a time and not have to make a larger outlay all at once. If that fits her financial situation, upgrading may still be a better option. A speed demon type computer user would want to upgrade the memory, hard drive system, CPU and video card in that machine. All those things taken together would add up to at least the cost of a used machine of a more recent generation which would come with a faster CPU, faster video and a faster hard drive system. A more recent machine might still need memory added, but at $30 per 256 MB SDRAM DIMMs (newer machines use cheaper memor than the S900) that isn't much of an issue. But if she doesn't want to upgrade all those sub-systems, it could be cheaper and more sensible to stick with her current machine and just upgrade one or two sub-systems. So it really boils down to a question of what her goal is. Jeff Walther -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
