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April 9th, 2008, 01:04 AM
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| yeah. You think i can get a Maxtor Personal Storage 3000LE 40GB to work for it? its an external drive. Will i need a certain amount of ram or hard drive space or anything? It said it will work on a 1.1 usb port and MacOS 9.0 or higher but i don't get this part of the review. While the 3000LE will work with the USB 1.1 ports on current computers, you'll need a USB 2.0 adapter card (not included) or a USB 2.0-capable computer to take advantage of the new standard's higher data-transfer rate. Maxtor offers a PCI USB 2.0 adapter for about $50 on its Web site. http://reviews.cnet.com/hard-drives/...7-6753205.html MacOS 9.0 or higher are supported as well. The benefit of the Personal Storage 3000LE is that you can install it on USB 1.1 ports should you not have any USB 2.0 ports. This greatly eases file sharing with other computers. Unfortunately, with this kind of setup, you are stuck with a USB 2.0 hard drive crawling at 900KB/s at best. http://www.everythingusb.com/hardwar...age_3000LE.htm This is the best i found http://www.modfactor.com/reviews/sto...20USB%202.html This will work right?  |
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April 9th, 2008, 07:18 AM
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 Don't go there! The Mac: If you buy that 233 iMac and then try to upgrade it, well you will just be throwing good money after bad. The VRAM is on that machine may be as low as 2MB and may only be upgraded to as high as 6MB, with a chip no longer available. The internal HD is easy and cheap to swap out (don't even think about any external HD, it will be quite useless), but maxing out the RAM on that machine will set you back about $90 for a lousy 512 MB. And the latest OS supported on it is only 10.3, as opposed to the current 10.5. And it will run dog slow. Trust me, I own one.  Go with nixgeek's suggestion and try to pick up at least a G4. Last edited by andychrist; April 9th, 2008 at 07:23 AM. |
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April 9th, 2008, 09:03 AM
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| I don't really want to upgrade anything. Cause im buying it for 25. Im trying to spend least amount of money as i can. I just want to add an external hard drive. Would it still work? Or would it lag a lot? Would any Ram work? all ram chips are compatible right? Cause i got 256 ram on my old computer that broke due to motherboard was fried. i think. |
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April 9th, 2008, 09:23 AM
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| Personally, I wouldn't recommend it for what you want. A "Sawtooth" Power Macintosh G4 system would be much more worth it and would support PCI expansion cards. Despite their age, these still handle Mac OS X quite well given a decent amount of RAM. Hold on to the $25 and save up a little more for this particular model if you can.
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April 9th, 2008, 09:25 AM
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| You can also check below for some good pricing on that particular G4 and others: http://lowendmac.com/deals/best-powe...g4-prices.html
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April 10th, 2008, 10:10 PM
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| G3's are awesome. Ive had windows running in Virtual PC on it  Its not as slow as a usual pc! :P
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