To get a faster system you need more RAM, an ATA/66 IDE card or a fast wide SCSI card and some decent HDs. Click to expand... "Need"? That's a bit excessive. Yes, more RAM. …

The later 604EV with full 1MB cache on the cpu card should give a g3 a good run for its money. I would think photoshop is limited by CPU cache along with bus speed bottlenecks.

I personally wouldn't pay more than $50 for a clamshell $100 if it's a 466. Otherwise I'd get a pismo. Just my .02.

A local pawn shop has an iBook G3 laptop for $150, looks great, runs fine. Was wondering what the value of one these would be, is this anywhere near a decent deal on one? I don't t…

xpostfacto removes the 8gb limit if the drives larger then 8gb. if you was to try to install OS X (testing using 10.2) on the 120gb hdd without xpostfacto it will not allow you to …

Here's a little Photoshop comparison from BareFeats http://www.barefeats.com/Photo.html The single G3 300 easily beats even the dual 604e 200.

Thanks a bunch Wally! :-* Still running nicely and still plugged in (I'm on the G5 at the moment). I installed Word and Power Point on it. You Tube runs slow. The price for the …

Thanks a bunch Wally! :-* Still running nicely and still plugged in (I'm on the G5 at the moment). I installed Word and Power Point on it. You Tube runs slow. The price for the …

Even another 64MB or so of RAM will certainly help pick up the pace, and I second the call for maxing out the video RAM. OS 9.0.4 should be upgraded forthwith to 9.1, through the …

Wooo! Another one saved!

ahh yea the pill battery. i totally forgot the models under the MP 2000 had them.

Wally is right! It is the battery! It is working (I left it plugged in for the afternoon and will be plugged in for the rest of the time). I hope it'll still work in the morning. I…

At a guess, based on the many Sonnet processor upgrade cards that I have, both ZIF and PDS, yours will have at least 512kB of L2 cache, and very possibly 1MB. Sonnet is always mor…

Also try testing the internal backup battery (silver disk). If you had dead AA batteries and were running on backup for a while you may have drained that as well.

This thread has resonances with the battle by beachycove to get a PB 500 series with a recelled battery to accept its new lease of life. I agree with wally's recommendation that r…

Depends on the G3 you purchased and how much cache it has (512K or 1MB). To get a faster system you need more RAM, an ATA/66 IDE card or a fast wide SCSI card and some decent HDs. …

Could be, but give it a chance to heal (recharge). I was sure the PRAM battery was hosed on the PBG3 Firewire I just bought, but then I pulled the dead main battery to do some sur…

Given more RAM, to at least 256MB, preferably matched and paired (interleaved), and an upgrade to at least OS 9.1, or 9.2.2 with OS9Helper, much better. 'Better' however, depends …

I think it is the PRAM battery (though it'll boot up to OS 9.2.2 perfectly. No "?" mark folder). It boots into OS 10.3, if I select it from the install OS X CD or if I select it f…

Just pull the main battery, the optical drive can be in or out, leave the PowerBook plugged in several days. I've seen conflicting info on the internet regarding just which models…

I'm just using a 20 gb partition. I asked elsewhere if I should partition it, but they said Lombards didn't need partitioning. Thanks for the tip, I'll try it. How exactly do I c…

Should you have a zero charge old main battery in there when you are testing, you can try pulling it out and charging the PRAM battery for a full 48 hours in either operating or sh…

the display remaining in a sleep like state wile booting can be fixed. in open firmware its normlly set to use a different output thats no longer installed, in xpostfacto there is …

maybe somehow the battery contacts are corroded and need cleaning, or connections got bent somehow. i would check them to see there condition. if that don't work then something in…

Hello, I have a Power Mac 7300/200 running OS 9.0.4 with 48 megs of memory. Currently, the processor in this machine is a 604e, but I recently purchased a Sonnet G3 upgrade from th…