Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>"Henning J. Wulff" wrote: >> >> Except for the iMac, there aren't too many Macs or clones that you can't >> upgrade to a 450Mhz G3 or similar. >> >For a price: > >$150 will buy you a brand-new top-notch PC motherboard with AGP and 100 >mHz FSB. A 450 mHz/100 mHz FSB. An AMD K6-3 costs $190 >(www.thechipmerchant.com) > >A 466 mHz Mac G3 upgrade by Newer Technology sells for $749.95 >(www.macconnection.com) but RAM still operates at 50 mHz or so. Mac >motherboards are very, very expensive. Yes, 3 or 4 year old Macs have 40-50mhz bus speeds. The current models are 100. Even at that the old boxes with new processors are fast as hell. > >I see no Mac upgrades beyond 466 mHz, and nothing at all for late >models, including the iMac and blue G3s. You'll see these before too long for the G3s. Right now you don't because they are top-of-the-line fast. The upgrades you see now are for the older "slow" models, not for the newest, just released models. This time next year we may be looking at 1000mhz processor clock speeds in the new machines. I'm pretty sure that upgrades will follow for the older machines. > >The main reason to pay extra for a Mac today is because you like the way >it's packaged. Nothing wrong with wanting a bit of style in your life: >The iMac is one of the few computers which looks nicely finished from >all angles. Some folks take a "who cares what it looks like!" attitude >towards computers, but I say, if you gotta stare at it for hours, looks >*do* count. > >Jeff > Henry Ambrose