I moved from NuBus PPC to PCI PPC. I gave them up, moved back to Nubus and Beige G3 PCI.
It's so difficult to find RAM (and expensive too) for PCI Power Macs. For what the RAM costs, I bought a used G3 PCI Power Mac that uses ultra cheap SDRAM (PC66, PC100 or PC133), then I purchased some...
I beg to disagree. I'll take a properly patched Windows 98 SE computer with at least 256MB of RAM anyday over a fully patched XP machine. About the only things that I need to run that I can't are iTunes and Google Earth, everything else runs well.
Win98 Autopatcher (watch Windows 98 fly, fast...
Umm you'll probably get better performance if you can find a Radius PrecisionColor/PrecisionColorPro/LeMans (LeMans is the best), or a Radius/RasterOps Thunder IV. These cards have good 68K drivers.
The significance of the MacPicasso is that they're the only cards for Nubus PPC Macs with 3D...
The 6100 is rubbish as Apple shipped most base configurations without the AV Card.. But it's small, compact and can take a lot of upgrades.
Install 8.1 if you're not going to add a G3 card, and 9.1 if you'll be addign a G3 card.
The most important upgrade is RAM, the second is an HPV/AV card...
Seeing that you've just entered the light and decided to try out Mac OS X, I'd suggest getting an Intel Mac Mini. You'll be able to use the latest Mac OS X for the next few releases, and run Windows and windows applications at full speed.
To dual boot the machine with XP or Vista you would use...
A pity since Pentium III 500Mhz runs perfectly under Windows 98SE (which is what it usually shipped with). Just make sure to install autopatcher for Windows 98. http://www.mdgx.com provides endless tips and tricks for patching Windows Machines. It's over a hundred pages, but autopatcher is a...
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