Pair of G4 Dig-Aud's. EDIT: SCORE!!!

[Anonymous Freak]

One 533 MHz one 466 MHz.

Between the pair there are:

1 60 GB, 1 120 GB hard drive

1 ATI Rage 128 Pro, 1 nVidia GeForce 2MX

2.75 GB RAM (five 512 MB modules, one 256. The 256 and one of the 512s are PC-100, the rest of the 512s are PC-133.)

No monitors, one white Apple USB keyboard (the more modern kind,) and one black Pro Mouse.

Both have CD-RW drives and modems, no AirPort cards.

The hard drives had been re-formatted and left blank. They were being cleared out from a closing business. Got the pair for $150. (Which is what the 533 alone sells for at PowerMax, with much less RAM.)

I figure I'll set up the 533 MHz one as a 'maxed' computer, and sell the 466. (Although the 466 has no CPU fan, so is very quiet, while the 533 has a fan that is quite loud. I may swap heatsinks to get a quieter 533.)

edit: Corrected the subject line. Originally mistakenly called them Gigabit Ethernet models, not the correct Digital Audio.

 

[Temetka]

Nice score.

The Gig-E's are great machines. Quite easy to turn into a nicely upgraded workstation. I'd source a fast CPU and video card though.

 

[Quadraman]

Those aren't Gigabit Ethernets. They are Digital Audios.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Those aren't Gigabit Ethernets. They are Digital Audios.

Yeah, I actually figured it out before I finished my post, but forgot to edit the subject.

 

[MacMan]

Nice one! I'm still using my faithful 466MHz Digital Audio as my main machine and it's going strong.

 

[Unknown_K]

The power supplies for those machines seem to be very pricey.

 

[Quadraman]

The power supplies for those machines seem to be very pricey.

They are proprietary. They have a +28v line that you can't create from an ATX supply.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Wow. The one that was marked as a 533 MHz model on the back had a funky custom heatsink with a big (and noisy) fan on it. I figured it was just a user-done thing.

I just installed Jaguar on it (the latest OS I have on CD-ROM instead of DVD-ROM,) and System Profiler says it has dual 1 GHz G4s! Wow, what a score! That definitely explains the heatsink with fan. This makes it my second-fastest Mac. And I thought it was going to be 5th or 6th. (Depending on wether you count a 600 MHz G3 as faster than a 533 MHz G4 or not.)

I'm installing Jaguar on the "466 MHz" one now to see if it was similarly upgraded. edit: Nope, it's all stock, other than the hard drive.

Now all I need is a nice matching Graphite monitor. (Just lost out on getting a 17" Studio Display with ADC-DVI converter (the expensive one that lets you use the ADC display on a DVI computer,) for $100 through Craigslist.) For now the dual 1 GHz is on a random VGA monitor CRT I had lying around, and the 466 is on my Blueberry Studio Display while I get it an OS.

 

[Quadraman]

I wouldn't bother getting an ADC monitor. You'll want to upgrade that video card sooner or later and you won't find a lot of cards out there that have an ADC port.

 

[Byrd]

Nice score! Always nice to find a surprise like this (most recent was my PB540c which had a Newertech 167Mhz PPC and 40MB RAM!).

I'm with Quadraman; ADC monitors are a nuisance. In addition the 17" Studio Display is a known dodgy part, with backlighting problems - many of them go this way after time. Mine did and I sold it for AUD $40, surprised I got this as the replacement inverter is $150.

JB

 

[Bunsen]

power supplies

a +28v line that you can't create from an ATX supply.

You can still use an ATX supply though... search for +28V on these forums

 

[Dan 7.1]

oh awesome! digital audio's are excellent machines. my 733 model has been nothing but brilliant over this past near-decade.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

I want the ADC more out of 'complete system collectable' desire than for usability.

Right now I'm using my Blueberry Studio Display, borrowed from the B&W G3. For some odd reason, though, it won't work on a VGA/USB KVM.

I'd like to get either a 15" or 22" ADC display, but the 17" is just fine.

I'd also *REALLY* like to get the first-release 22" Cinema Display that used a DVI connection, before Apple came out with ADC, as well as the 'old style' Graphite Studio Display, which would give me the complete line of that style of Studio Display. (I have the original dark blue one that came out with the beige G3s that has the old DB-15 connection, with a burnt out backlight, two of the aforementioned Blueberry ones (one is flaky and the picture starts going out after about 15 minutes, completely scrambled by 30 minutes,) with one full stand, and one 'frame' stand; and I even have the white stand that goes with a Graphite one, just don't have the Graphite monitor itself. Unfortunately, between the three I have, I only have one power brick.

P.S. Leopard installed without complaint on the dual 1 GHz upgraded one, and it runs great; and when I transplanted that hard drive to the stock 466 GHz one, it runs just fine. Now the only non-stock part of the 466 MHz one is the memory, which I left a single 512 MB module in. The hard drive in the 1 GHz was a stock hard drive when I bought them, the 466 had been upgraded to a 120 GB drive, which I have transplanted to the 1 GHz, and re-installed Leopard. Now I'm using all five of my Family Pack licenses.

The ATI Rage 128 Pro makes graphical things a bit poky (no Quartz Extreme,) but it is fully usable. The nVidia GeForce 2MX is a passable video card for Leopard. It is a much more responsive system than my 867 MHz PowerBook G4, with its GeForce4Go. I suppose the two processors, at 15% higher clockspeed, and double RAM helps, too.