It's not all that bad, certainly better than anything else with a 2 in the hundreds column. It only scores one out of four on Lowendmac's Road Apple scale.

Considering that one point is for shipping without VRAM or cache (easily fixed) and the expensive upgrade path (which was in fact $19.95 last time I checked - from Sonnet) it hardly deserves the opprobrium at all.

And a PCI 601 is indeed a curious beast. I shall have to investigate mine further.

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