Mac G5 / moving to OS X

From: Tom Uban <uban_at_ubanproductions.com>
Date: Mon Jul 21 17:48:03 2003

Hi Seth,

I'm curious if you bought those upgrades new, and what they cost?

--tnx
--tom

At 04:30 PM 7/18/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >> If your a current mac user the g5 WILL be alot faster then what you
> > have,
> >> if your an Intel user I dont see a rush to buy anything made by apple.
> > If
> >> your a unix geek you might want a G5 just to say you own one and make
> >> fellow geeks unworthy of your presence.
> >
> >> The funny thing is mac users who laugh at PC guys upgrading their
> > hardware
> >> every year are now doing the same thing, except its alot more costly
> > for
> >> them buying complete new machines while PC users just chuck the
> >> motherboard/ram/video card in their old rig. This upgrade cycle of
> >> hardware will eventually kill the mac market because only the very
> > rich
> >> can keep up. What percentage of mac owners are using OSX? What
> > percentage
> >> will upgrade to a current OSX running machine anytime soon?
>
>That's not quite the case. Macs have a considerably longer useful life than
>PCs, generally, and are indeed upgradeable. I just took my January 1999
>model Blue G3/400 desktop, swapped the 8.5 GB Ultra2Wide SCSI disk subsystem
>for a fast 200 gig Maxtor and an ATA 133 card, slipped in an 800 mhz G3 CPU
>daughtercard and installed a Radeon 7000 instead of the OEM Rage 128 and a
>LiteOn 52x CDROM instead of the old Matushita 24x (I already have an
>external 1394 burner) and a Kensington 3-button Studio Mouse. Runs OS 10.26
>like a charm. Sure a G5 would be faster but this setup handles a heavy duty
>OS10.26 without any strain, web pages render in a flash etc. Plus this one
>will still boot OS9 directly and I can use my old ADB keyboard of which I'm
>fond. I figure on getting a year or two more out of this machine by which
>time I may just buy a laptop and use the G3 for a file and web server. I
>would've LIKED a new machine, but didn't NEED one. Of the four households
>in this immediate family 3 are on OS X; only my 87 year old father in law
>doesn't want to upgrade his 1998 rev A iMac and install it. That's 75%
>penetration. Also the G3/400 daughtercard I removed is now installed in what
>was formerly a Beige G3/266 I keep at work as a scanning station. That
>leaves me with a spare ZIF G3/266 daughtercard. Anybody need one?
>
>Seth Lewin
Received on Mon Jul 21 2003 - 17:48:03 BST