[vr5150]

I have 2 Power Computing Machines for sale.

1. Power Tower Pro G3 300/225 1 meg cache 192 megs of ram 24x CD-Rom
4 meg twin Turbo video Card. 6 pci slots
4 gig raid drive. Floppy and USB Card w/ 2 USB
ports. $700.00 Shipped or $900 with a 8x cd-r and toast
300 is processor speed and 225 is the cache speed, so it is faster than
Apple G3's

2. Power Tower 250 w/ 64 megs or Ram. 1 meg cache. 16 x cd-rom &
external zip drive. 4 Gig Raid HD
Floppy. $500.00 shipped

All units come with Keyboards and mouse. I will load the following
software:
Photoshop 5.5, Adobe Golive, Pagemaker 6.5, Framemaker , and many other
Adobe titles. Also
Dreamweaver 3, Flash 4, Freehand, Fireworks 3, And others. Also
OS 9.0, Norton Utilities 5.0, Techtool 2.5.2, Stuffit Deluxe , Plug-ins
, Microsoft Office 98, Softwindows 5.0 and many other titles.

First come first serve. I also Have a Power Computing 17" that is
perfect for $200 to be included in one of the above macs.

[jaisun]

Would you consider $450 on the PowerTower (bundle #2)? My wife has finally come to the realization that PCs are the 'darkside of the force' and now wants a Mac...

BTW, I'm not too familiar with the PT...what is the Apple equiv.? Thanks

"I will load the following software...."

C'mon, is this REALLY the place to advertise software piracy? If you're going to engage in this slimey practice, at least have some shame.

Anyone who is considering buying from this person, think long and hard about it before you hand over your cash. Know that you're dealing with a pirate.

[Chris_G]

Jaisun:

If its a Power Tower, the computer is based on the Catalyst architechture, and is similar to a souped up 7200 with a 604 processor and a 60 MHz system bus (the 7200 bus runs at 40 Mhz). The number (250) suggests to me that the computer is a Power Tower Pro, which is based on the Tsunami architecture, has a 604e processor and a 50 MHz bus. Apple used the Tsunami architecture in the 9500 (there might be others). Power Computing made an excellent product... I was sad to see them leave the Mac market. Hope this helps.

Cheers!
Chris

[jaisun]

Chris,

Thank you for the info. That does help a lot. I have one last (probably stupid) question. I think it has already been answered for me but: I know the 7200 is not processor upgradable...does that make the PT 200e not upgradable as well? I know they're not the same mobos but I just have to ask since, again, I'm not all too familiar with PowerComputing or clones in general. Thanks

[Chris_G]

Jaisun:

I am almost 100% positive the Power Tower is upgradable via a daughtercard processor upgrade... I own a PowerCenter Pro which is based on the same logic board, and I recently upgraded to a G3 card which works wonderfully. If the computer is a Power Tower and not a Power Tower Pro you have an older logic board (the Tsunami architecture is newer than the Catalyst board... which could lead to eventual support problems with OS X), but you can take advantage of a 60 MHz bus... this is almost as fast as the original beige G3's (66 MHz), and I've read reports of people overclocking their G3's with higher bus speeds than 60 MHz (62-63). If not, the Power Tower Pro is also upgradable, and 50 MHz is still pretty snappy. Anyway, hope this helps.

Cheers!
Chris

The PowerTower Pros can be upgraded. I've got a PowerTower Pro 225 with a 400 Mhz G3 upgrade card from Newer Technologies in it, and it runs just fine. The only thing that may be an issue is support for Mac OS X. Apple certainly will not support X on these machines (for that matter, they don't offially support Mac OS 9 on them either, although lots of folks run Mac OS 9 on clones with no trouble....it runs fine on mine). I tried installing the DP3 beta of Mac OS X on my upgraded PowerTower Pro and it wouldn't install it. That's just a beta of course, and I don't think we'll know one way or the other until after it ships.

If you have questions about any Mac's upgradeability, check out Newer Technology's web site (www.newertech.com, I think).

Hope that helps.