Pawn shops make money selling items like computers to suckers. I have found great deals on hand tools. I have picked up vicegrips, screwdrivers, torque wrenches and more. Never pa…

Just remember the old saying. Click to expand... Adjusting your expectations is the cheapest accelerator you can buy.

As fast as computer and video game hardware depreciates, I am surprised pawn shops deal in them at all. If I get $200 for a computer from a pawn shop, all I do is wait a few months…

Just remember the old saying. RAM is the cheapest accelerator you can buy. You should bump up the RAM as much as you can afford before you start playing around with CPU upgrades, v…

I was looking at a PRAM battery. Claims to be working. Is it safe? I'd have to buy a main battery first though, I believe. The one it came with is dead (tried resetting it). Can …

Yeah, it's a fugly clamshell (teal-coloured), and maybe I can bargain with them a bit. Thanks for the input!

FWIW, around these parts (Silicon Valley), clamshells are going for around $100 (a bit more for the 466MHz generation). Icebooks are going for only a little more than that, with Ai…

Are you talking the clamshell ibooks (fugly) or the white second generation iBooks?

If you go by eBay prices, it's a nice deal actually. What makes it even sweeter is it doesn't get destroyed in shipping and you actually went in and looked at it. If it looks goo…

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. …

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.