[rescue] need Mac Upgrade Advice!!!

Patrick Giagnocavo rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Aug 2 13:53:13 CDT 2001


On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:56:41PM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> so the guy dropped off the macs today.  fastest ones are the 5260/100 boxes.
> they have ethernet.  that's perfect.  i want to set one of these up for my
> daughter to use.  she like cartoonnetwork.com a LOT.  but this thing is just
> DOG SLOW.  100Mhz 603e, you'd think it would be faster.  but it looks like this
> thing has a CPU upgrade slot.  what sorta CPUs can i get for this thing and how
> free are they?  i don't really want to spend any money on this thing.

You might be able to find a CPU upgrade card - check xlr8yourmac.com or
macintouch.com for links and pricing.

Cheap way might be to see if there is a slot for some L2 cache, but no SIMM
in that slot.  In such a case, adding L2 cache is your best bet (and
cheapest).

./patrick



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