HiVolt
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Re: [OS X] Best browser for old blueberry tray-loading iMac?
Yikes, tray loaders were only 233 or 266mhz, right?
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andychrist
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New York, NY
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May 12th, @03:19PM
| The Revision D was 333MHz.
I'm still using the first, 233 Bondi iMac, but it's been upgraded with a PL 500MHz G4.
Another great limitation of those old machines, they only hold 6MB VRAM. |
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| said by andychrist  :I'm still using the first, 233 Bondi iMac, but it's been upgraded with a PL 500MHz G4. Really? I've seen so many of those originals with dead/dying CRT's its amazing yours lasted almost 10 years.
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andychrist
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| Well most of the time I used it only at night, with all the lights off in the room and the brightness and contrast all the way down, plus I calibrated the display profile pretty dull. Figured it would last longer that way.
Now that it is nearly ten years old I really don't care how much longer the monitor holds up so I run it during the day at full contrast. But only rarely do I need to turn up the brightness from the lowest setting.
Thinking the matter over, I'd really recommend to the OP, if you are serious about setting up your mom with a computer, get her at least an eMac. The screen is a good size larger for legibility's sake, and they can run Tiger with ease; the later models can even handle Leopard. Better bang for the buck then then trying to upgrade an old G3. |
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