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Well, I've decided to spend most of it, but not all of it, on Mac stuff I can tinker with.

I'm currently looking at a dual 500mhz G4, with 68 pin SCSI, two 40gig drives on an ATA 133 controller, ZIP, DVD, an OEM ADC-equipped Radeon and  a gig o' RAM.

I'm also looking at Pismo PowerBook. I kick myself often for having sold the one I had.
It comes with Airport, 512mb of RAM, a 20 gig hard drive and it's the 400mhz version.

The cost for both comes to roughly $1000, and plans would be to overclock both machines, by 50mhz per processor.

Of course, I could be really daring. If I underclock the dualie to 400mhz ( 4:1 ratio ), then set its bus to 133, I'd have a dual 533 on a 133 bus. That would be sweet
It may not be faster than two 550s on a 100mhz bus, but it could be interesting to find out.
I'd also upclock the Radeon.

I'd also be up to swapping the DVD ROM in the Pismo, by pulling it out of its expansion bay plastics and throwing in either a superdrive or a combo drive. It's a less expensive and more creative method than buying one outright.

Aside from that, I'll consider a custom maching paint job for both ( it's a time issue ). I'm thinking matching red with black or navy blue trim.

The bits and pieces in my current G4 would be swapped over.
It hasn't been behaving quite the same since being shipped during my move. I'm really hating Fedex lately.

Anyhow, this solution leaves me with around $500 or so to do other things, or buy processor upgrades for either or maybe both machines. I'd really like ot throw a 900mhz upgrade in the Pismo.

If anyone else has ideas to throw my way, throw 'em.

Last edited by ironhawk (2005-02-21 11:37 am)