These are very nice machines.
I got given one a few weeks ago. A mate was having a clean out and I got lucky.
My machine has issues though, the pro speakers won't work for some reason, I suspect I've lost a channel and the socket might be a bit dodgy, that's no problem, my existing speakers plugged into the headphone port. And the display has one stuck pixel, though I barely notice it.
Other than that, this beast craps all over my G4/400 performance-wise.
I've now migrated, but for some reason, I can't get OS 9 to install.
The machine needs upgrades though. It's only got 512 meg of RAM, which it suffers with since I'm running Tiger, and the original DVD drive, a Pioneer DVR-104 which is loud and slow. And the takeapart looks scary.
I have to say I do miss the upgrade options on my G4 tower, and the desk space I used to have.
What got my attention was the noise, or the lack thereof, it's a very quiet machine.
More RAM and a newer DVD drive, and maybe a bigger hard drive, and this thing will go quite well I think. I just have to get the courage up to do the takeapart.
I'll have to see how robust the PSU is. I don't want to open this thing up and successfully open this thing up and install goodies only to have the PSU die on me.
Nick
I got given one a few weeks ago. A mate was having a clean out and I got lucky.
My machine has issues though, the pro speakers won't work for some reason, I suspect I've lost a channel and the socket might be a bit dodgy, that's no problem, my existing speakers plugged into the headphone port. And the display has one stuck pixel, though I barely notice it.
Other than that, this beast craps all over my G4/400 performance-wise.
I've now migrated, but for some reason, I can't get OS 9 to install.
The machine needs upgrades though. It's only got 512 meg of RAM, which it suffers with since I'm running Tiger, and the original DVD drive, a Pioneer DVR-104 which is loud and slow. And the takeapart looks scary.
I have to say I do miss the upgrade options on my G4 tower, and the desk space I used to have.
What got my attention was the noise, or the lack thereof, it's a very quiet machine.
More RAM and a newer DVD drive, and maybe a bigger hard drive, and this thing will go quite well I think. I just have to get the courage up to do the takeapart.
I'll have to see how robust the PSU is. I don't want to open this thing up and successfully open this thing up and install goodies only to have the PSU die on me.
Nick