7 Jan
2007
7 Jan
'07
11:04 p.m.
On 7 Jan 2007 at 20:41, Jeff Walther wrote:
My experience with the Beige G3 is that the stock hard
drives are
slow as molasses. The built-in IDE bus is only 16.7 MB/s (whichever
ATA that is) but the hard drive doesn't even perform up to that
level--at least mine did not.
The G3 now has 768MB of memory and it helps quite a bit. The hard
drive's a Fujitsu and not the original.
Beyond that, you can easily spend more upgrading than
a faster newer
machine would cost you on the used market. That said...
Nah, I'm just trying to figure out the Mac "culture". I want to get
my currently unused workstation monitor on the G3 and poke around a
bit.
I ran across a web page giving the hookup and resolutions for the
Monitor ID pins on the display connector. I can take it from there.
I'll poke around the recycling place for interesting widgets
pertaining to Macs, but I don't intend to spend too much time on
this, given that new Macs are x86-based.
Thanks,
Chuck