I took an original 233 G3 Beige DT, upgraded with a 350 G3 before it got to me, and put in a 400 G4 which runs at 420 mhz. 768 megs megs ram(3 256 Dimms), 6 megs vram(4 meg upgrade to onboard vram), 30 gig IDE drive, 32X CDROM, and it runs Jaguar great.
The best thing about this machine is I can upgrade it feasibly, there is even a dual proc upgrade for it, though that one would be expensive and hard to find used. However it runs OSX great and currently needs no upgrades in my opinion. It is a nice machine if you want to get into OSX cheaply and be able to upgrade for a while before your machine becomes obsolete. I recently sold an 8500 (ZIF carrier and 350 G3, 8 meg IX3D card, 27 gig ide drive, ata/66 card, USB card, 336 ram) and as soon as I'm able my moms Powercenter(266 G3, 403 ram, 16 meg ATI card, ATA card and 30 gig ide drive, 32X cdrom, usb card) will be sold and a Beige G3 will replace it. Less trouble since my mom lives in Ohio and using a beige would eliminate at least the Unsupported issues that I have to deal with, though they are not many. On 3/2/03 3:18 PM, "Roger Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark, > > I concur with Mr. Alcacid. I have several PCI Macs and have upgraded and > run OSX on acouple of them. Unlike Mr. Alcacid, I did not have trouble > running OSX. But! OSX was Too much for the upgrades I installed and > performance was poor. I feel that it cost way too much to get one of the > PCI Macs in good OSX condition. I have a couple of stock 266 Beige G3s > that run OSX just fine, with plenty of memory. A fast HD and a 400 or > faster zif makes a Beige G3 a very good OSX Mac for general use. > > MacResQ has the Desktop G3 266, 128 mb, 4gig, 24x CD for $200. > http://www.macresq.com/store/specials.php you can't beat that for a > great cheap system. > > Roger Harris > > James Alcasid wrote: > >> The story is much different as a far as a BeigeG3, but eve these >> machines are on the border of a supported config for MacOSX. I >> certainly did not have an issue with reliability on the BeigeG3 however. >> >> If the option is open to you I would recommend a BeigeG3 over upgrading >> a PCI PowerMac. I have a lot of nostalgia for the PCI Macs, I have four >> of them. I I cannot recommend upgrading a PCI PowerMac especially if >> your intention is to run MacOSX. >> >> >> On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 08:01 PM, mark wrote: >> >> >>> I've seen people mention that theres a limit of a G4/400 or G3/800 on >>> a G3 >>> model. But you can get a G4/800 for a PCI PowerPC. How so? Does this >>> limitation mean that something like a 9500 is a better cheap Mac than >>> a G3 >>> for future upgrades? Especially if you intend putting OSX on it? >>> >>> -- >>> Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> >>> >>> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> >>> >>> Unsupported OS X list info >>> <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> >>> --> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> >>> >>> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com >>> >>> >> >> >> > -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
