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I'm curious about performance...I found my 6400 and 6500 to be dog slow when compared to my PCI Macs, even with 32MB Rage Pro video cards. The MacBench scores are very similar, but when playing games, the 6500, even with a G3 upgrade, was noticeably slower. I was using MagicEngine. I'm...

Well, duh! This is like, the simplest solution. And completely effective. And easy...and, well, like, a complete solution.

Me three--bug fixes and HFS+. I can't remember if it made any difference in battery life...it was OS 8.6 that first seemed to show real improvement with that. With an old 68k Powerbook, I imagine the real question is, do you have enough RAM to make the upgrade to a more RAM-hogging OS worth...

Yeah, that is weird. If it requires password now, it should have required a password to do the update, I would think. If you have the retail DVD, and a DVD reader, you can either boot from the DVD and find the menu item to reset the password, or reinstall the system completely. I think I would...

Ditto...I've have an 8600 that was giving me errors ohmygod I was ready to rip my hair out after several days of nothing but failures of OS installs... Anyway, I *thought* it was the SCSI bus and started using an external SCSI drive, and things seemed better for a little while, but then the...

Our local privately owned Mac store uses old compact Macs as (gasp!) DOORSTOPS! The poor SE/30 really makes me sad, whenever I see it out in the rain...

I've been considering this (the G4 upgrade). I love my little Lombard. I have OS 9 and OS X Tiger on it. I never boot into 9, I use this for my web surfing and email only (well, and Quicken) and it does all I ask. Well, iPhoto too, now that I think about it. I have 512 MB ram in it (2 x 256 Ram...

I think the deal is that the "older, slower" 68k macs are actually faster when running system 7.0 or 7.1, at least at booting up and running ordinary word-processing programs. Much later, when you could stick in a G3 upgrade, that was when the PPC Macs became much, much faster. Of course, there...

Interestingly, on his page he also has a link to Bomarc Services. If you scroll down the page at this link http://www.bomarc.org/catalogsmenu.php you will find schematics for more Mac logic boards and PSU's. Hmmm...1.50 a sheet, minimum order is $10, I may buy a bunch...I don't see any Quadra...

LOL...my first Mac was a 512k back in '85. With my experience with this, and my TRS-80, when I bought my next Mac (a Classic II), I knew I wanted the most RAM possible (4MB), but when I saw the choices of a 40MB or 80MB drive, I was there like, "Geez, I'll never fill up a 40MB hard drive."...

Thanks, I always wondered how it worked. Using it on my PPC's with OS 7.6, SpeedDoubler was great...however, my experience with RamDoubler always led me to view Connectix products with suspicion, especially whenever I had stability problems. Connectix had great "hacks", and I say that as a...

Actually, I like having 2 identical setups...you have a backup (assuming you backup semi-regularly), and if something goes wrong, you just swap them out. Then, when you feel like living on the bleeding edge, you can go ahead with minimal fears of losing everything...I'm talking about everything...

I gotta tell ya', I've kicked my butt in hindsight with a couple of auctions and sales...with the cheap prices, it is usually worth paying shipping, just to see what you get.

The potential of an 8600 is quite huge, for lack of a better term. First off, it runs every OS from 7.6 to 9.1. Then, with XPostFacto, you can run up to the latest Tiger...it has 3 PCI slots, which I've put in a video card, firewire, and ATA 66 card. The CPU is upgradeable, up to a G4 1GHz, via...

I forget where it was (probably at xlr8yourmac.com) but there was a technical discussion somewhere of the reasons why you probably should *not* use PCI extreme. I think it boiled down to a theoretical discussion of using the older PCI bus to handle data transfers as well as the graphics. Anyway...

Well, I guess on one hand it means "Marketing Hype" (since the iPhone, I think we forget how pitiful the old hype used to be). On the other hand, I know for a fact that with Mechwarrior, the special RAVE version gives you nifty cloud textures...same blocky graphics otherwise, but in the...

Back in the day, when I had a 1400, and then a 2400, the biggest advantage of 8.6 was improved power/battery management. Many of us saw an increase in battery life over 10% when we went from 8.1 or 8.5 to 8.6. If you are running off AC power, then that won't be too much of a big deal. There...

Boy, I remember always wanting one of those as well...in fact, I just obtained an LCD mount that enables me to rotate the screen, and I use my PowerMac G4 (and my PeeCee at work) in portrait mode. It really makes much more sense (I spend 99% of my time reading/writing at the computer, and 0%...

I think the problem is as you described. The 6100 was rubbish... I remember bringing it home, setting it up (I bought a Performa 6116) and after playing around with it for a day or two, I put my Classic II side by side with my spankin' new 6100, and booted them simultaneously, to see "how...

I forget the exact google terms, but if you search using some combo of apple & mouse & repair, you will see the problem. IIRC, the wires on the inside can get torn (?) due to some kind of design flaw, apparently corrected with the newer mice. I would just treat it very gently, and maybe...