Hey everyone. I wanted to know what you thought I should do with my PowerMac. As I have posted elsewhere on this site, I have an iMac G4 and MacBook that are my regular workhorses, so I'm not sure what to do with this machine, but say I wanted to use it for my desktop, I'm not really sure if there would be a return on investment for souping it up.
I would need 1Gb of memory (which I tried to buy, but the silly thing only sees half of the memory). I'd also go with a better graphics card (probably a Radeon 7000) and I'd look into a processor upgrade (anyone tried the PowerLogix 1Ghz G3 upgrade on these machines?). However, we're looking at hundreds of dollars that I could instead spend on a G4 tower, that would have the following benefits:
- QuartzExtreme capable (no Mac without AGP can do this)
- No limitation on internal hard drive sizes
- Hardware that is half as old (6-8 years vs the G3's 11 at present)
- Faster, cheaper memory
- Leopard capable (no G3 can run Leopard easily or reliably, I've read)
All that being what it is, I still don't want to get rid of it unless it's to someone who wants it. I've tried selling it locally, but haven't had any offers (I thought a word-processing and internet ready tower could at least fetch $50, guess I was wrong). In it's present state it's not much use to me, and I don't think the upgrades would be worth the cost (but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).
Or the final option: anyone looking for a B&W G3 Yikes tower with Rev 2 motherboard?
I would need 1Gb of memory (which I tried to buy, but the silly thing only sees half of the memory). I'd also go with a better graphics card (probably a Radeon 7000) and I'd look into a processor upgrade (anyone tried the PowerLogix 1Ghz G3 upgrade on these machines?). However, we're looking at hundreds of dollars that I could instead spend on a G4 tower, that would have the following benefits:
- QuartzExtreme capable (no Mac without AGP can do this)
- No limitation on internal hard drive sizes
- Hardware that is half as old (6-8 years vs the G3's 11 at present)
- Faster, cheaper memory
- Leopard capable (no G3 can run Leopard easily or reliably, I've read)
All that being what it is, I still don't want to get rid of it unless it's to someone who wants it. I've tried selling it locally, but haven't had any offers (I thought a word-processing and internet ready tower could at least fetch $50, guess I was wrong). In it's present state it's not much use to me, and I don't think the upgrades would be worth the cost (but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).
Or the final option: anyone looking for a B&W G3 Yikes tower with Rev 2 motherboard?