[greystoke144]

Sorry 'bout my laziness vis-a-vis my 1400c[I've posted before] I'm just too LAZY to follow up a archived orig. post.
I've found - to my chagrin, that a faster upgrade via a Sonnet card, is still
unreasonably costly. Am I correct in assuming-I NEED at least that upgrade to run OS 9? I've been thru that whole 'ball 'O' wax' on my 6400/180 that's maxed out w/L3 400 crescendo/usb/136 meg ram etc. etc.
and while I love the 1400c's display dearly and have splurged on a couple of PCMCIA cards..and I want to keep a fairly expandible machine that
mirrors my desktop mac, [ and oh yeah-For now? - I'm happy with OS 9] and can't see a need for the usual advise...Get a faster laptop!. -Am I
crazy to ask if there is ever gonna be a price break on a Sonnet card for my 1400c,before it acquires a mac+ connotation?! I'm embarassingly
cash poor, but hey! I've an offer: I collect guitars and have some VERY
nice examples of acoustics and electrics that I'd consider for swap/s
vis-a-vis any reasonable offer for my Mac solution. They range - from
$300.00 - $2500.00, and any reasonable offers would be welcome.
My Email address is greystoke144@shaw.ca
Pics and descriptions are avalible of course.
Greystoke

[Detrius]

CPU upgrades are virtually always expensive. I have a four year old dual 533 G4. It would cost me at least $500 to get a CPU upgrade for this thing that is worth spending money on. For $600, I could get a faster Mac mini. There are upgrades for my machine for $230, but it's a single 1GHz processor. My dual 533MHz is the roughly the same--not worth the money.

The problem you are going to run into with the 1400c is that very few people use them anymore. Therefore, you are part of a tiny market. Therefore, there is virtually no benefit for companies to create products for your machine. You can't even run an up-to-date web browser on that machine.

You may do well to look into used PowerBooks. If you go this route, you shouldn't get anything older than a Pismo (Powerbook Firewire).

[bgordon]

Dude, I have to tell you...let it go. It's really in your best interests, financially speaking.

I just went down the same path a year ago...got a 1400c off eBay...nice machine....32MB of RAM...had no idea RAM was so crazy expensive for that machine...bought more, at an exorbitant amount, to get it up to its max - 64 MB, barely enough to run OS 9...bought RamDoubler off eBay, which really didn't work, due to OS lockup issues...bought a wireless card for it, which worked, but with no modern web browser that was fast enough to meet my tastes, it was just all kinda pointless...bought a 216 MHz Newertech upgrade card for it, ran *kinda* faster, but another $99 down the drain...throw in the fact that it weighed a ton compared to my AlBook, and I just had to get rid of it. Oh yeah, I forgot - it doesn't have a built-in ethernet port. Gotta buy a special card (very expensive and rare - go figure - or a PC card with ethernet adapter.) Put a new HD in it from my '99 iBook...a little faster, not much.

I don't even want to think about the $$$ I sank into that thing. My wife has no idea to this day, else she'd have a few words for me. All in all, it was a lesson in why sometimes it makes no sense to upgrade something that really shouldn't be upgraded. It's kinda like turbocharging a Ford Fiesta...I'm sure it's possible, but why would you? And at the end of the day, you're still driving a Ford Fiesta.

Just my .02. Hopefully I've saved you some pain and coin.

- bgordon

[macaddict0001]

its not worth it.