9500
James Hastie
i have used macs before and are very familiar with them so no basic stuff.
I just picked up a 9500 tower, havent used a mac in a couple of years and
dont know this model.
ok, it says on the logo, that it is running at 120mhz but according to
system profiler, it is running at 150mhz and it says 9500 and then i think
it says something about 9650. i am assuming someone has replaced the
daughter board with a 150mhz proc.
my question is:
It is a stock computer, basic mac vid card with 1.25gb hdd and apple 300+
CD.
What can i do *cheaply* to upgrade it.
i will replace cd a hdd when i get some scsi drives.
what kind of cards can be put in the pci slots
it has 96mb ram, is it normal 66-133mhz Dimms needed?
processor and mainboard.
Any advice ideas or comments, greatly apprecieated.
james h
David D. Workman
Start with replacing the Hard drive, since that is probably going to be
cheapest and easiest. Replace the CD drive with a DVD drive, and pop a DVD
decoder card into one of the PCI slots. Max out the memory to 1536 M (its
specs say 64 M sticks are all it can take, but it will happily use 128s). Get
a video card (64M). Finally, and most expensively, a Sonnet G4 800 MHz card
for about $400.00.
` David
James Hastie
RudeCustoms
> are there any cheaper upgrade solutions
Not really, the previous post is about as good as it can get and it's
what you should upgrade to if you want to get around the net and
stuff. But, you should remember that OS X only works on a native G4
(as I was told) and you probably will be working in OS 9 or lower for
you to use your 9500.
You should ask yourself, how much you're going to spend to get this
machine to somewhat current standards and compare it to getting a new
Mac. I sold my 9500 on eBay (it had some decent stuff on it because
it was a video editor) and I got about $500 for it. If you can get
close to that and what you had planned to spend to upgrade is probably
not far off from getting a new machine. Especially at the prices are
going right now.
Rudy