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Thanks for the tip Dr. Bunsen ! Click to expand... Muh? Wait a minute! I read this on Wikipedia:...although there are issues when installing Mac OS X (above 10.0) if b…

Actually I think you would get more selling the G3 as stock with the original CPU and selling that G4 seperate.

Unknown_K and Quadraman, you both make good points. But rpaxton already has the Sonnet in his hands, so Definitely RAM would be the next thing.

Yeah I think I'll double list it in Apple->Desktops and Computers->Vintage

$100 maybe because its mint, boxed, and has that G4 zif. Depends on the market over there.

I should also note it's in pristine cosmetic condition. And it's in Australia, where Macs of any sort in this condition don't come up very often.

Price check on aisle 5? Click to expand... It's in the eye of the beholder.

Heya folks. Just had an odd one come in to work, and I'm wondering if anyone can suggest what we should expect to get for it. Beige G3 tower in original box, foams, and plastic w…

Its funny what people will sell today because they need gas to get to work. Pawn shops pay very little for electronics and jack up the prices when they try to resell it (knowing s…

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. …

Dust bothers me. I have a cat sitting on my lap as I type. He likes to sniff at the exposed CD drive when it's spinning. This, too, bothers me.

I also would like to see this become an open source project, which it is not as of now. Click to expand... It is now. Blurry has bounced back and forth a bit between Sourcefor…

As for the games, I think they are fixed, which is too bad because I could see this as huge potential for other apps, not just games. Click to expand... That's exactly what I w…