I have an 840av in nearly stock config, paired to an AudioVision display, which although "for" the x100 powermacs, works fabulously if you've got the correct adaptor.
I tried 7.6.1 and 8.1 and 7.5.3 on mine, and similar to Beachycove, I went for the original 7.1 Pro (I have the install CD) -- it's super fabulous. I ended up installing opentransport, but let me just say that IE4 on 7.1 on an 840av is just about the godliest thing you can think of. The only way to improve it would be to give it the full 128mb of ram.
I think mine had a 1.2 or a 3 gig hard disk, plenty big for the minimalistic Internet apps and everything I was using for it.
Anyway -- great machines, the 840s, and if I had to pick a
(other) 68k Mac to haul up here to the university, it'd be my 840av, the AudioVision display, and probably either the Apple Extended Keyboard II or the Apple Adjustable Keyboard, and I'm thinking, just to be safe, the QuickTime Conferencing Cam (for making my Video Blog) and just for good measure, the LaserWriter Select 360.
Alas, not allowed to live in 1993. (More importantly, I have so much other junk hanging out that I can't really physically fit a desktop 68k mac.)
Anyway-- congrats on the 840s! they'll probably be great machines for quite awhile.
I tried 7.6.1 and 8.1 and 7.5.3 on mine, and similar to Beachycove, I went for the original 7.1 Pro (I have the install CD) -- it's super fabulous. I ended up installing opentransport, but let me just say that IE4 on 7.1 on an 840av is just about the godliest thing you can think of. The only way to improve it would be to give it the full 128mb of ram.
I think mine had a 1.2 or a 3 gig hard disk, plenty big for the minimalistic Internet apps and everything I was using for it.
Anyway -- great machines, the 840s, and if I had to pick a
(other) 68k Mac to haul up here to the university, it'd be my 840av, the AudioVision display, and probably either the Apple Extended Keyboard II or the Apple Adjustable Keyboard, and I'm thinking, just to be safe, the QuickTime Conferencing Cam (for making my Video Blog) and just for good measure, the LaserWriter Select 360.Alas, not allowed to live in 1993. (More importantly, I have so much other junk hanging out that I can't really physically fit a desktop 68k mac.)
Anyway-- congrats on the 840s! they'll probably be great machines for quite awhile.