Help Me Improve This Two Macs

im getting this 2 macs... but i would like to have them as kick ass as possible.

You know...more memory, better video card ( i can choose any video card that has the mac compatible logo right?) bigger hd...etc. Im not a mac gurú ...thats why im asking for some help pals.

New field for me.

They will be targeted for graphic designs (photoshop...etc).

I know memory is the same (PC133) as pcs...So its ok if i get 2 sticks of 512 for the g4?...not sure.

current configurations are:

G4

877 mhz - (868¿?)

384 ram

scsi card

cd recorder

250 zip drive

HD 40GB

G3

300 mhz

64 de Ram

HD...dont know...my friend didnt know how much.

thanks in advance for the help.

respect.

aniba!

#16962

Improve them by sending them to me They will look kick ass on my desktop

#16996

Try installing a Luna interface then try a DOS emulator, you can't go wrong (so I'm told).

#16997

nah nah, there aint for me!

im helping a graphic studio pals there.

com' on! show me some love and tell me what can i do.

respect.

aniba!

#17000

The G4 can use the latest NVidia or ATI cards. 40 gigs is small for graphics work. Get at least 120gig

The G3 can only be expanded by adding more memory. Max of 256 megs. OS 9 works faster then OSX for the G3 although OSX works fine with 128 megs memory (256 meg recommended). Drive space is needed too since it normally comes with 13 gigs.

#17021

you are lucky to have the G4 you've got. It turns out that, for some reason, the 867MHz was the best designed ever G4 made. Its the most efficient.

Anyway, load it up all the way. I think it can support upto 2GB of memory. Upgrade you videocard etc.. and you're good to go!

#17043

really? didnt know that, bah, too bad it aint for me! ahaha, im just fixing them to work at it best.

more questions will arrive when the 2 boxes arrive...

2GB huh? great. Tell me, how many slot (memory) i have? how many do u guess are being used? and...pc133 right ? (no ddr).

thanks again pals, thanks for your time.

aniba!

#17165

ram is good. it has become apparent to me that the more stable an os is, the more mem it eats. osx is very stable and very memory hungry. (this is mainly why win9x were so unstable, they didn't give an app a certain amount of memory when it opened, but mac os, and win nt/2k/xp do it) so get as much ram as possible. also you don't need a special hdd. i was a little worried when i started digging in the g3 i got recently, cause the maxtor hdd inside had a little apple logo on it. but another drive had no problem in it. i myself am wondering if i can put my sblive! and pci geforce4 in the b&w g3, and if so, if osx has the drivers built in?

#18194

Actually I just picked up a biege G3 266 for $45...

and been looking into what can be upgraded...

well this is what I found...

A XLR8 400 MHz MACh Speed G4 Upgrade = $100 - $150

ProMAX TurboMax ATA 100/133 PCI IDE Card = $50

ATI Radeon 7000 PCI Mac Edition = $75 - $100

256MB low profile SDRAM = $30

for about $250 in upgrades, you have a pretty decent box for running OSX quite well.

#18226

thanks for sharing pals,

info much appreciated.

respect.

aniba!

#18229