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    Upgrading a G3

    My G3 has arrived - apparently it's as easy to get G3 apps as it is for tiger.

    The graphite G3 had a CDRW (which didn't seem to work) and 192MB of ram. I've added a 256MB out of a PC - I believe it's SDR PC100 (matching the original RAM speed) but it doesn't seem to work. Crucial wants £50 a stick for 512MB's.

    If I upgrade the ram (at least to 512MB) will it run Tiger well enough to bother? I'm also thinking of installing WIFI in - there's an odd shaped dongle by the RAM - is that for an optional wireless card?

    Sorry, newbie mac hardware boy = )
    Tim N

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    Tiger's quite ram intensive, but also processor intensive. I wouldn't like to run it on anything less than a G4 700 if you intend to really use the machine. Try getting a copy of Panther, it's like a diet version and will probably run a whole lot better

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