Honestly, if you're going to upgrade to a beige G3, you may as well upgrade to a Digital Audio or Quicksilver G4. They are dirt cheap now and a lot faster and will run later versions of the OS and software.
On Oct 16, 6:11 pm, WhyOSX <[email protected]> wrote: > A G3/233MHz is a really fast machine, compared to these. > It can be equipped with USB, a lot of RAM, SCSI burner and so on. > A good computer for writing anyway (Office, Quark), it will handle a > Photoshop 5.0 or 5.5 in acceptable speed, if you're not a professional user. > An alternative may be computers of the 7600 series, they share the cases with > the G3 and can be upgraded to 500MHz at least (Sonnet G3 card for the L2). > But they are rare these days. > Good luck ! > > > > >Thats a little disapointing, I was hoping to not have to look for the > >non-existant QuadDoubler. I may have to check out LEM to see if anybody has > >one of these, or just get a G3 powermac (beige) and use it for editing... > >> As far as I know, it can be speeded up to 33MHz, if a passive cooling is > >> set on the processor > >> (this is so for the LC). The effects are not dramatically impressing; > >> I have an LC with a 33MHz 68030 card - that's a difference (to the 16MHz > >> 68020).- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
