>I have the option to get an old PCI 604 Mac that is upgradable via PCI >Card (Sonnet) to G4 450 MHZ 1Mb cache... > >The mac is $100, the card will be $250 plus I will need some RAM. Downside >is that the mac is SCSI based, not IDE (cheap). > >Wondering how fast OSX will run on the G4 at this speed? Tolerable? > >I am assuming a 450 G4 will be faster than a higher clocked G3 (like a 700)?? > >Wondering if this is a good route to go ( have to be via charge card >(stupid, just got paid off)) to get to X. > >I can use Sonnet's X installer, or XPostFacto to install, but Sonnet's >requires OS 9.1 which I don't have. > >I have OSX 10.2 and 9.2 install CD's > >Robert Robert: I took my PPC 9500/160 MHz and upgraded with a card to a G3/500 MHz. It worked great for OS 9, but when I tried to install OS X, there were major problems and eventually it slowed so bad that it took over 5 minutes for an "About box" to come up. Now, maybe 256 Meg of RAM wasn't enough or maybe the software didn't work properly with the G3 -- I don't know, but I gave up and bought a new machine instead. tedd -- http://sperling.com