I just picked up a new beige G3MT and find the CD-ROM very noisy when accessing. At first I thought something was wrong, then it quieted; but gets noisy again when accessing. Is t…

Wade, I have the same machine and the same problem. The problem is not as difficult as it may appear. I understand this problem affects only a percentage of mt 300s but you and i j…

Will the current G3's be upgradable to the G4 (when it comes out this summer)?, and will the rest of the architecture remain equal ie: system/memory bus speeds. I'd like to buy the…

It won't be possible! The G3 is related to the 603e, and the G4 will be "directly" related to the 604e. Similar to how the 68040 was with the 68LC040 that I have in my P640 with …

Smoke signals from different rumor sites within the past 2 or 3 months suggest that a pin compatible G4 may well be in the cards. However, Maxbus and AGP4x may be available on fir…

The current G3s will, in fact, be upgradeable to G4 processors. The first version of G4 will come in the same 360-pin BCA package, so yes it will be upgradeable. Remember that the …

mkbhatia is right. The presentation by Motorola explicitly states that the first version(s) of their G4 will be pin-compatible with G3s. The only minor quibble about mk's post was …

i stand corrected =) -m

If you don't own a Apple g3 now (and you have the cash), you should buy one. Don't sit around and wait for the g4. Once the g4 comes out your will be thinking about holding off fo…

Anyone using the ProMax Digital Video Editor on G3? Please respond with your review/critique. Thanks.

I have a G3 300 w/UW SCSI, and recently added a 6GB maxtor drive as slave to the CD-ROM and it works great. What I would like to know is, it is possible to add another IDE drive? R…

The ide bus can only have 1 master and 1 slave on the chain. If you want more IDE drives, you need a second IDE connector from a 3rd party card. JohnW

I've bought 10 blue and white G3's for my compnay. Over a period of a week, 3 have discontinued to boot. No chime, but power is on and the drive spins up. After a little troublesho…

Thanks for the infor. My company bought 42 and one of the new g3 montior card when south. Got a replacement in two days. ------------------ David Stafford dms@fastlane.net

I have heard that FileMaker Pro Server for windows NT is much faster than FileMaker Pro Server for Mac OS. Is this true? And do you think the Mac OS X version will be faster than N…

I would wait and hold out for OS X Server before making a switch over to NT. NT is a good product, but there are a lot of little bugs and fixes to know about if you are running a M…

How many user's and database's are you supporting? Are your user connecting by AppleTalk or TCP-IP to the FileMaker Pro Server? Connecting to the database via IP better than AT. …

Our office is composed of Mac workstations, and Sun servers. Our one token NT machine is the File Maker server. We haven't had any problems with it, It has never crashed on it's ow…

I work in an office with an NT 4.0 network, Novell 5.0 & Unix networks. The NT is a piece of crap. We'd feel lucky if it only crashed once a month! Novell, on the other hand…

ok, I was wondering if anyone knows the real difference between the 300mhz/350mhz/400mhz B/W G3's, as far as the Mhz vs Heat. Could you over-clock a 300mhz B/W G3 to run at 400mh…

Hi, I want to overclock my Rev A. iMac next week too. Is 266MHz the max speed Rev. A can support? Thank You

You can overclock alot higher than 266 but I choose to just goto 266 because I didn't want to deel with heat problems. I've talk to one guy who overclocked to 300 but his iMac wou…

You can clock your B&W G3/300 to 400 MHz with no adverse effects because the 300, 350 and 400 MHz models all use the same motherboard...the only difference is which sets of pin…

I hear everyone talking about overclocking and heat problems. Just what temperature's are considered to be a problem? My G3 card runs at about 130 degrees F. all the time....how mu…

To blizaine: The biggest difference between the models is the 300MHz model only has a 512k Level II Cache. The 350 & 400's have 1MB. You could prob. squeeze 400MHz out of your …