The "2nd Generation fanless iMac" refers to the 350 and the 400 DV models. All earlier units have fans. You were probably thinking of motherboard revisions: 233 (Bondi Blue) = Rev…

Thank you very much, heh, sorry about miss naming the thing too. Just wanted to make sure my Rev A iMac would be safe Alex

im gettin a free 8500 32megs of ram 2 gig hd. for now i am letting my mother use it to web surf. but when my imac dv has passed its prime, would it be worth upgrading the 8500? g5 …

I don't think you'll be able to upgrade an 8500 to a G5, when it is available. Even if you could, it would probably be a much wiser investment to get a new computer. Whereas a G5 m…

Mind you, you could upgrade the 8500 quite nicely as a G3. You could add a cheap G3 upgrade ($200) and add say 128 Mb Ram ($190), a Voodoo 3 ($60) and you'd have quite a reasonable…

would the g3 upgrade allow me to run osx at a reasonable speed?

Probably, it depends on what speed you get. ------------------ People aren't as dumb as you think. Wait, what was I thinking, 90% of the world uses WINDOWS! You don't like Macs? …

Quote: Originally posted by popstar92: im gettin a free 8500 32megs of ram 2 gig hd. for now i am letting my mother use it to web surf. but when my imac dv has passed it…

sorry. double post [This message has been edited by SpeedRacer (edited 08-28-2000).]

hey thanks for the informative response. i think ill just leave the 8500 the way it is. i love my imacdv to much to give it up anytime soon. for me the difference in specs between …

Yeah, but with the iMac DV, you don't get 45GB DiamondMax Plus 7200RPM ATA/100 (200 dollar hard drive for 8500) Ability to get larger monitor without crappy mirroring PCI Slots As…

quote '45GB DiamondMax Plus 7200RPM ATA/100 (200 dollar hard drive for 8500)' the 8500 is SCSI only, no IDE bus. So you'd have to spend another $100 on an ATA Card, which will take…

Forgive me for sounding stupid, but since I don't have an iMac, I really don't know the answer to this question. Doesn't the iMac's monitor connect to the computer using a standar…

Yeah, but wouldn't that be dumb?? iMac in case with 15" monitor wasting space and other monitor next to it. I suppose you could rack mount it! I've found some good deals on G3 upg…

Now rack-mounting the iMac sounds like a great idea.

G6 tower in 2003, don't you mean 700MHz G4 tower? They should be here by then right?? ------------------ I see dead people.

Good point.

hey y'all i'm kinda new here... used to belong a long time ago... forgot about the forum.... and couldn't remember username.... whatever..... I don't know if any of you have seem t…

After loading QuickTime Player 4, RealPlayer 7, and Shockwave 8, the Xclaim Video Player (XVP)will not open. I get a message saying that no ATI video hardware can be found. I have …

The only thing I can think of is to reinstall the video card's drivers.

Oops! I should have mentioned what I tried to do. First, I deleted the XVP Prefs and restarted. Second, I reinstalled *all* XVR software (which includes the drivers). Third, I deac…

I got the card back by taking the "drastic" step of removing the new software, and reinstalling QT 3. Voila! The XVP found the ATI hardware! I first removed RealPlayer, no effect. …

does anyone know if there is a definite conflict with Quicktime and acclaim VR? i've had QT 4.x since it came out, and i just installed an acclaim VR card. the apple system profile…

I've had two other people report problems on another board where I posted the same original information. It seems that it is a conflict between XVR and QT 4. I have yet to hear fro…

I saw an article and patch a while back on the Apple TIL page about ATi Xclaim VR cards and pre-G3 PCI macs. I can't remember the details but it was something about these PCI cards…