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Post #4 by uniserver
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Today found 2 grape imac g3's on the side of the road in my neighborhood. One's a fruit tray load 333 with 6 gb drive and 160 mb ram running 9.2.2. The other one is a 400 dv with 12 gb drive, 640 mb ram on 10.3.9. Both are cosmetically nice and both function perfectly with their original keyboards and mice, actually the dv has a blue keyboard. I'd say the 333 is almost mint. Problem is, I've only got room for one of these imacs, so one has to go. I was thinking I would keep the older one, but it is significantly less powerful with It's 66 mhz bus vs 100 and tiny hardrive, but it's a better period piece cause It's like a bondai but in a funky color. I want to use one of these machines for some retro ppc games in classic. Would the 160 mb of ram cut it for late 90's early 2000s games? Cause I really don't want to spend money on pc-66 ram which you must get for the older models. Ideally I would keep both, but music/computer room is getting quite cluttered.Thanks in advance for helping me decide. Pictures to follow.
I would keep the slot loader, it's got a dvd rom in it! heck use it as a dvd player...

Slap in a Airport card get some WIFI

Slap in a couple 512mb sticks of ram, (1gig total) pc-100 or pc-133

Slap in a modern EIDE hard drive up to 320gig

Over Clock it 50 mhz, (helps)

Install 10.4 tiger, and then 9.22 classic, dual boot.

Then you will have a very nice little machine.

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