What's the difference between a AGP and GigE PM G4s?

catzilla

catzilla

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I saw a very clean 400Mz model at a thrift store, it had an ADC/VGA Rage card which leads me to believe it is a GigE. No HD, sleds were all there, Zip drive, and rainbowish power cord. 2 sticks of ram. I didn't try to boot it, couldn't find a compatable monitor. $35, but I resisted.
 
If it has an ADC card(and the appropriate power contacts on the board for it), as well as 4 ram slots and 3 PCI slots it's a Gigabit Ethernet.

If it has the ADC card, but 3 RAM slots and 4 PCI slots, it's a Digital Audio.

If it has 4 RAM slots, 3 PCI slots, an AGP slot, but no support for ADC it's a Sawtooth.

I'd probably grab it for $35, but then I'm sucker for this age PowerMac.
 
That doesn't seem like too good of a deal there, 2 sticks of ram => possibly 512mb ram?, no HDD I would pass on it myself considering its a 400mHz model!
In regard to "testing it", if a mac bongs it's going to be working alright most of the time.
 
Well it has 4 ram slots and ADC, so it must be GigE. I resisted, but it was so pristine.....
 
I have that model GigE and it's a fun little machine. I can't believe how much it can still do, it even plays video well. I got mine out of a garbage bin, lol.
 
catzilla said:
I went back and it was gone. I had talked myself into getting it....
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Shoot. Well you can normally find one cheap or free when they do pop up. Nobody realizes they can still do a lot of stuff very well, they just think they're old and slow, which to some extent they are but they're also cool old beasts.

Take a look at Everymac.com's Power Mac page, it's the easiest way to get an idea of what specs each had, what can be upgraded, etc. if you do run into something again. http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/index-powermac-g4.html

Best wishes.
 
cocacolakid said:
I have that model GigE and it's a fun little machine. I can't believe how much it can still do, it even plays video well. I got mine out of a garbage bin, lol.
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Hehe, depends on what kind of video ;)

...(and partly on the player and the graphics card).


Aren't they going for arround 20,- on Ebay all the time?
 
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