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In article <Xns93C05D5643422fromtheotherside@216.168.3.44>, Wheat Muncher
<me@there.com> wrote:
> in artical news:flippo-BD1C70.05453622072003@news.central.cox.net flip
> enlightened us all with these words of wisdom:
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>> What kind of upgradeability are you missing? Every modern tower Mac
>> has at least 3-4 PCI slots - which is a lot considering that GB
>> Ethernet, Firewire, and so on are on the motherboard.
Hmm. I'm sitting on a five year old desktop G3, running a 266 cpu and this
thing has four PCI slots and three RAM slots - I can go to 768 MB of ram if
I so desired. You do need the revision 3 ROM board to get there, though
(which is in this model - it apparently was the dead last end run of the
desktops). I get around the slow cpu in running graphics by tweaking the
graphics card to take up as much as possible. It seems to work just dandily.
Odd thing is, is that I have friends who bought PC's at roughly the same
time I bought this machine, and almost to a person, their 'puters are now
losing functionality on the web. The old Pentiums in the 266 speed range
just can't keep up, and they are having to get new machines.
Ermm. :-(
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> Forgot to add that most retailers (including our shop) have abandoned
> anything and everything to do with MAC. They are just not popular enough to
> warrant stocking equipment for them.
Huh? <scratching head> I just picked up another 256MB stick, at the local
computer shop. Nothing special about it. Same with the next purchase I'm
planning, which is a 40 gig hard drive. Nothing special about that. There's
no difference in the hardware. Same with my graphics accelerator card. The
software is another matter entirely. Now given the fact that OSX is almost
pure quill unix, complete with a command line (which is a first for
macintoshes), the possibilities for software are now limitless, to say the
least (Damn, I wish I had a new mac).
Deb.
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