sdashiki

Upgrading B&W to do anything significant is kinda not gonna happen.

but you can always turn any ol mac that runs OSX or even OS9 into web servers, FTP servers, media players etc...

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Hcomplyr

Fastmac has a 600 MHz G4 for $159

Looks like I'll get that one. Thanks for the input I already have the ram and have yet to format it and install the OS I'm kind of in between apartments so it might be a while. Simon C - I might hit you up later when I finally set it up, right now it makes a handly doorstop

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sdashiki

youd be surprised how often that happens with macs, but not PCs.

I see more Mac Classics etc as door stops than anything, but i never see PCs doing that,

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Hcomplyr

I have a classic SE that I picked up the other day for free, kinda cool.

I think the job of Anchor would be given to that device

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Bugbyte

Fishtank.

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Hcomplyr

I've seen that, I actually want to use the mac SE though for nostalgia purposes

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jdusablon

1. Altivec and SSE aren't really comparable. Not much is between CISC and RISC.
2. Final Cut will be quite slow and/or unusable unless you have G4 1Ghz or faster and at least 512MB RAM.
3. Beware of the Blue and White's quirks. G4 upgrades are notoriously flaky with this unit because of the firmware updating procedure.
4. Other factors like HDD performance (you'll want to upgrade HDD controller) and video card performance will give you headaches if you try to run heavy apps on this mac.
5. In the end, the list of upgrades in ram, cpu, HDD and video almost amount to a new mac mini.

Just a thought.

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