[Crimson]

Ok, I'm considering purchasing the following setup:
Macintosh 350 mhz PowerPc (AGP) ver 2.7
HD IBM deskstar 40GB 7200 rpm (new)
Mem 2 x 256 sdram 133 mhz (new)
CD-ROM/DVD-rom Matshita
Display adapter ATI radeon 32 Mb (new)

Mac OS X 10.2
Taxan Ergovision 1080 TCO display

I know its old, but it's adequate for my needs. What would you suggest as a price for such setup? Any pros/cons? Let it flow!

[chris v]

That's a perfectly acceptable machine. Those go for between $750.00 and $1000.00 from the used equipment web retailers, depending on the features, and that one sounds pretty loaded.

You can upgrade it with a Powerlogix card later, too.

I've got a 450 AGP and it's humming along nicely. Plenty of life left in those machines. You can go up to 2 gig on the RAM, and 120 gig on the hard drives.

CV

[Crimson]

thanks for your reply I still have my iMac 333 full of life, whatnot internal CD-ROM failing... I have added a HP9100 as slave to main HD, and popped in 20GB just a while ago... but that internal CD bugs the hell out from me... what if there's a system failure etc... no booting from CD then Replacing that one will cost 200€ whatever mechanism I chose, was it slimline CDRW or Apple original CD-ROM...

[tr]

yeah, listen to chris v. i have the same computer he has, sawtooth 450, it's sweet!

you max these out, and have a really good machine. i've put in a superdrive, zip 250 (it originally had a zip100. why upgrade? i guess at one point, i needed it...? ), 2GB RAM, a 45GB and 60GB IBM deskstars on main IDE, 45GB deskstar with IDE/FW bridge on internal firewire port (which are only on the older machines), Siig ATA 133 RAID card striping two-80GB maxtor drives, and a flashed PC ATI Radeon 8500 64mb AGP card. all i need now is a 1GB processor upgrade, and i'm set to go another 4 years! you can shove all kinds of stuff in there, and have a decent machine.

just note that since this looks like an early sawtooth (350mhz), you might have Uni-N rev. 3 chipset (like i do ) which will not allow you to use dual-processor upgrades. not really a biggie, but just something you should know.


tr

[Crimson]

tr, thanks for the infos! It really looks like an affordable piece, withthe monitor and all...

[Crimson]

price dropped to 920 euros, and memory got boost up to 1024MB, it seems to me that I've got a deal in my hands... Any info on adding another optical drive? I'd like to use my HP burner with it, without losing DVD...

[reader50]

I have a G4 350 AGP (Sawtooth) just like the one you are looking at. Flashed Radeon 8500, 100+ GB of HD space, 1.3 GB RAM. The processor speed is the only holdup at this point, I'm thinking of an upgrade card to make some of the newest games playable.

tr mentioned a good issue. My memory controller is a uni-n 3, not suitable for dual CPUs after OS 9.0 ... and many current 3rd party upgrades require OS 9.1 or later.

If you can reach the machine before you buy, download the free utility to check the memory controller version. It's almost certainly not compatible though.

[Crimson]

just before I posted that note on price drop I came home from testing it... I'll mail the link to the owner right away

[Crimson]

just received answer... no, no dualie for me on that comp... so what