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I want a Beige G3 MT to soup up....
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Aurora
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I want to create a souped up beige G3 minitower. Anyone know where I can pick up a resonably priced one (any model as long as it's a Beige G3 minitower). Things I don't need: Hard drive, RAM, Rage II graphics accelerator (on logic board?) (I'm gonna ditch that POS and put in a Rage 128 Orion and a Voodoo 3). The cheapest one I've sean in a catalog is 899 (and like 550 on ebay but knowing ebay it'll probably shoot up to 1000 bucks) (with HDD RAM etc). Anyone know where to get this stuff???
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Techno City (Detroit)
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Good luck finding one without RAM and without a hard drive. Essential system components usually come with those things.
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Join Date: Mar 1999
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you definitely do not want a rev1 beige G3 MT... get a rev2 or 3
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Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
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Just buy a new system!
Ok, say you buy a Beige 266/64Mb/6Gb for around $900+ just for a very rough estimate. You then probably want to upgrade the processor ( a few hundred dollars at least). Now lets say a larger hard drive and more RAM (more bucks) and definately a new Voodoo5 (sincle its only decent PCI video card.
Phew...you've now spent hundreds of extra dollars whereas you coulda just gone to smalldog and bought a G4/400 for the same amount you have spent. + you have a cool graphite case and up to date ports and totally original system to upgrade later!
If there's any advantage in going the Beige route i'd like to hear
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Pete C. (PB12" 1.5Ghz 160GB hdd, 1.25GB RAM, OS X 10.4.11)
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Very well said, MacNZ. There is a reason why Apple decided to update all their computers....How long has the "new" industrial design been around for now, 2 years? you can get (i can't remember where i saw this) a B&W G3 tower, stripped w/o hd, ram, or external media for 1000 bucks. modern system bus/ architecture, etc, compatible with OS X too. 
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Join Date: May 2000
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You saw it on DealNN, or at least that's where i saw the same thing.
Trevor
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