My point is, however, upgrade paths are slowly getting shorter and shorter, and small changes like this are exposing that problem. However, this chops off 6 popular lines of Macs from being upgraded. In fact, they are upping the requirement from 800 mhz to 867 mhz G4, and not ending it all together. I can do surfing and wordprocessing on it just fine, but I can't play any new games on it, and the latest graphics programs and compression codecs for movies will drag to a crawl unless all other programs are shut down. I have no option to upgrade to a G5, and obviously can't upgrade to an intel. To get a mac with upgrade options, you have to go with the $2500+ Mac pros. The white iMacs had options for 128 and 256 mb video cards but you could only buy them in that flavor, you could not upgrade them later. I got about 7 years use out of that machine for the money invested.Ī midrange iMac now costs twice as much, and has fewer upgrade paths than previous Macs. The card cost me $300, memory was $50-$100, plus a $150 upgraded video card when it became available. When the 7300 came out, it cost around $1200. ![]() ![]() It also had 4 DIMM slots for lots of extra memory capacity. The 7300 also had an upgrade card slot which allowed me to pop in a G3 card eventually and upgrade my processor. ![]() I had a power mac 7300 way back in the day.
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