Quote: Originally Posted by kmarketing I got it for $200. It is a g4 powermac 450 that has been upgraded to a single 1.42 processor. It has 1gb of memory with 256 chips. It h…

Hi, Looking around I think the radeon 8500 is my best bet but it still costs around $80. I see on ebay that I can get a pci radeon 7000 64mb card for about $50. Is there a big d…

Hi, What do you think about this card? Will this really be good for the powermac? http://cgi.ebay.com/Mac-Edition-ATI-...cmdZ ViewItem I hate spending more money on it, this wi…

Better? Yes. Really good? It was top of the line... 4 years ago. It's about the same as a mini, but obviously with more room to expand.

Hi, Thanks mduell, i definitely appreciate your opinion. I think my main question is "Is this upgrade worth $90?" I see a cheaper 7000 64mb card on ebay for about $50. That car…

The video card has zilch to do with anything you plan on doing, so I'd say go with the 7000; it supports the same features (Quartz Extreme) as the 8500.

I cannot recommend the Radeon 7000. If you can, invest the money for a 9600.

Hi OreoCookie, Can you tell me why the radeon 7000 is not recommended? Again, I really don't do anything too much that I think I would need a great video card for. But I do want…

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell The video card has zilch to do with anything you plan on doing, so I'd say go with the 7000; it supports the same features (Quartz Extreme) as…

A PCI card is definitely not recommended. A little background. Quartz Extreme uses the graphics card to draw windows and other user interface effects. This makes moving windows fo…

hi, Thanks so much everyone for your help with the vido cards. In this time, I actually did some research on agp cards and then specifically the 7000 and 8500. Most say that the…

Hi, Just bought the 8500 on ebay for $80 + shipping. Man they kill you with the shipping. I hope that there will be a definite improvement, and at least with the dvi port I ca…

Hi, Okay, another purchase... I wanted to be able to use the sata drive from my g5 that I recently sold so I have been researching my options: 1. sata to ide interface converter…

Quote: Originally Posted by OreoCookie This not not true. Quartz Extreme will be sped up by the faster graphics card. It's not like Windows in that respect. Transparent windows,…

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell Please tell me that scrolling and moving windows is not a serious performance challenge for hardware that was new about 5 years ago. Scro…

Quote: Originally Posted by mduell Please tell me that scrolling and moving windows is not a serious performance challenge for hardware that was new about 5 years ago. Look …

Quote: Originally Posted by Lateralus Scrolling and moving windows is slick. Redrawing and minimizing is seriously fubared in X though, my X800 barely does it will. It works…

Hi, Just an update to everyone who helped me... I received the radeon 8500 and hard drive enclosure today. Both work great!! I'm not sure what to look for in terms of the perfo…

App: Firefox + Sage Web: Google Reader

Thanks to someone else on MacNN (forget who), I've been turned onto netvibes.com. It's a fabulous little RSS/mail/everything reader on one trim little page.

NetNewsWire is the daddy of alll RSS applications. They have recently joined with NewsGator (an web based RSS reader) - if you buy a licence you get a NewsGator account. The whole …

Thanks all. I think I'm going to go with netvibes for now. Google's a great company, but I'm starting to worry about having every aspect of my life on their servers.

Another vote for NNW. It's a great app, though I'm not too happy with the newsgator syncing. Since they switched to NG for syncing, I've found my feeds to be out-of-date. I don't k…

And NetNewsWire... redirects to netnewswire.techbuyer.com ... where the largest headline is "netnewswire..com" is for sale ?¿?

I second the vote for Netvibes.com. It's the only way I've found that I like to view RSS. It lets you view dozens of RSS headlines on a single page, like a news website, and you ar…