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mc0282

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hello, question again sorry
« on: 28 February 2003, 17:45 »
well im going  nuts here finding a good site the sell mac spare parts , this macintosh i bought from ebay , is powermacintosh 7500/100 with 1gb and 64mb rams, with mac os 9.1 but one thing is im so use to with my fast sytem the i build but this mac is SLOW . so how  can you improve the speed on the mac(without buying a new cpu) like tweak or something  ? how do you uninstall program on it ? is it possible to use pc memory like sdram on the mac ? well the mac has  sdram dimm 168 pins. so what is the different ? oh where can i find a  copy of mac os 9.1 because this damn hard drive is so slow and i think is going to die on me one these day .

and thank you for your time and patience  and im sorry for the long question
 
huh, what?

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« Reply #1 on: 28 February 2003, 19:43 »
Well, first off, that is a SLOW mac, period. You may see some advantages tweeking the RAM or hardrive which in my understanding is only 5200RPM. Since the HD is SCSI you can upgrade it to 10,000RPM which is nice.

As far as OS 9.1, it runs kinda slow on this machine from my own experience. The best way to speed it up is to increse the RAM. I think these PPCs use the old style RAM, but I may be wrong. Look up the specs on www.lowendmac.com .

BTW, lowendmac also tells you where you can get cheep parts for old machines. One good thing that PPC has is a bitchin videocard. I still use my old one for vidcapture. Check the back, you will note the RCA cables, very nice. Since the video processing is all hardware this machine is actually quite fast at it!

Finaly, you can upgrade the processor up to like 800Mhz G3 with a sonnet card, and these are only like 300bucks.

For that cash you may wanna look into buying a newer machine.... as the 7500, while a great computer, is not really supported anymore. But then agian, it depends what you wanna do with it.

EDIT:

175 for 500Mhz :

http://www.smalldog.com/product/36223

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mc0282

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« Reply #2 on: 28 February 2003, 21:45 »
would you know if possible to convert a scsi bus into ide ?  because most my hard drive are ide
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« Reply #3 on: 1 March 2003, 03:23 »
A PCI IDE card is the only way I know of....
http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Page.cfm?Parent=96&Title=SCSI%20%26%20IDE%20Controllers&Template=

Top section "ATA/IDE Controllers" The cheapest one on there looks pretty nice unless you need ATA 133 (or your drive supports it)