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Hardware / Re: What to do with my Starmax 4000?
January 30, 2007, 13:54 |
Depends how much time/money you want to devote to it. A StarMax 4200 is my main Mac still. There are lots of upgrade possibilities. Max RAM is 160MB. Latest OS is 9.1 (maybe 9.2, with a lot of hassle). Without a PCI card, you can have two ATA devices, one master on each of the two buses (no slaves). Up to 6 devices on the SCSI chain, as usual. It'll take a decent PCI graphics card - mine has a Radeon 7000 now, before that a 3dfx Voodoo3. PCI cards for Ethernet, USB, Firewire are available. If it's a tower case you have 5 slots, 3 in a desktop. A CPU upgrade (Sonnet, NewerTech) could get you a 400mhz G3. You could replace the CD with a DVD-ROM. None of these upgrades cost a lot on their own - this is all old stuff now and very cheap - but they'll add up. I use my StarMax for everything - web, mail, CD-ripping/burning, audio editing, Photoshop 4, QuarkXPress 4, scanning, etc. You might want to check out the StarMax Yahoo! Group if you haven't already: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/starmax-talk/ Or the Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/starmax?lnk=li Traffic is light now, but the archives will probably tell you everything you need to know about your machine. Good luck, Chris Adams. |
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