macs

[Sean]

Check out www.dealmac.com
They update it daily and display new hot deals. They are typically pretty
good. It also includes Apple compatible periphereals including dealer
refurbs, etc. It is for the patient.

I would honestly get no less than a b/w g3 which is around 500-600 used.
They take PC100 ram and are all ide inside. They do use firewire, and usb
periphs which pretty much puts you out of all the wanky proprietary Apple
stuff.

I have seen the dual 500's for around 2k refurbed.

You _can_ find G4 towers refurbed for around a grand. If you are going to
get a G4 stay away from the ones without AGP onboard.

Typically the 6-slot macs are at a premium, up until about the month
couple of months ago. but now you can find the 6 slot macs for around 350
a problem with the older machines(pre-G3) is that ram is about 75cents a
meg for them. They can take G4 upgrade cards but I would just stay away
form them altogether.

There IS an expansion chasis, that is basically a standalone tower with a
like 3 slots and IDE that uses a proprietary card (~200bucks) and an
actually chasis expansion where you trade 3 slots for 6 internally which
is probably faster and more comaptible (~500 bucks)

If you really want to know more, ask I could probably ramble on this for
the rest of the night.



On Tue, 8 May 2001, Mike Szumlinski wrote:

> Umax and PowerComputing used to be the big clones back in the day (circa
> '97) but they have since vanished due to loss of clone licensing. The best
> places to find out info on macs themselves is at http://www.everymac.com,
> and I always just hit eBay to see what the real going rate is for most of
> these systems.  Be forewarned...some of these boxes go for a lot more than
> what a much faster newer mac would go for.  If he is looking to run a
> ProTools/MIDI rig, he probably wants a PowerMac 9500 or a 9600 (6 pci slots)
> or a Umax S900 (6 pci slots). Realistically, I'd hit ebay and look for a
> Blue&White G3 500 and an expansion chassis for the extra PCI cards if they
> are needed. I run a ProTools rig on a system that only has 3 PCI slots, and
> it works fine for me.
>
> -Mike
>
> On 5/8/01 2:00 PM, "Adam McDougall" <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hey, do you know of any macintosh clones that might be cheaper than name
> > brand?  I'm not sure if any exist.  Also does anyone sell Mac desktops or
> > laptops cheaper than apple.com?  And is there a good resource for getting
> > a feel for pricing on slightly older models?  I'm asking because a friend
> > of mine is into music production stuff and he realizes that alot of music
> > programs are only on mac but we both have basically no feel for pricing
> > and specs of macs.  Thanks
> >
> > --------------------------------
> > Adam McDougall
>
>