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just ordered a 1.8 refurb
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i posted earler about if it was good to BTO or not and ended up seeing the 1.8 dual in the refurbished section of the apple store for 1699.00. so i guess i won't be BTO'ing but since i saved 300 bucks, i can use that for whatever later  i can't wait to finally get rid of my 233 G3 desktop!
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That's a huge step up! Get a pair of diapers ready! Congrats.
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Originally posted by Aric:
i posted earler about if it was good to BTO or not and ended up seeing the 1.8 dual in the refurbished section of the apple store for 1699.00. so i guess i won't be BTO'ing but since i saved 300 bucks, i can use that for whatever later i can't wait to finally get rid of my 233 G3 desktop!
upgrade ram! also if the 1.8 came with the geforce 5200fx get rid of that and buy the 9600xt. congrats
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thanks, yeah it is a huge step up, i'm thinking on upgrading the ram and getting an extra hard drive first, gonna do a lot of converting old tapes to dvd. then later i'll upgrade the video card if i can tell that this first card is no good. only problem is i won't be able to tell if it's not good or not if i'm comparing it to what i'm on now. 
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Originally posted by Aric:
thanks, yeah it is a huge step up, i'm thinking on upgrading the ram and getting an extra hard drive first, gonna do a lot of converting old tapes to dvd. then later i'll upgrade the video card if i can tell that this first card is no good. only problem is i won't be able to tell if it's not good or not if i'm comparing it to what i'm on now.
hah ya i'm sure its a lot better then what was in your g3. heh
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1st... RAM, RAM and more RAM
2nd... WesternDigital Raptor for your system drive.... SATA is capable of 150mbs so both the Raptor and the Apple provided Maxtor can talk at the SAME time, thus major speed increase.
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Originally posted by UnixMac:
1st... RAM, RAM and more RAM
2nd... WesternDigital Raptor for your system drive.... SATA is capable of 150mbs so both the Raptor and the Apple provided Maxtor can talk at the SAME time, thus major speed increase.
Good luck
thanks for the hard drive info, i had no idea. 
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