[rescue] New Workstation..

[Joshua Johnston]

Definitely go with the G4 with OSX.  Not only do you get the flexibility
of a *nix machine, but you get application support.  You'll be able to
run X11 rootless, and that's just a blast.  I've got a G3 500 iBook
running OSX, and it's just not quite as powerful as it needs to be. RAM
is a lot more important though.  I'd suggest bumping it to 512M as soon
as possible.  And try and make sure you can get a 32M Radeon in there,
as Apple just announced that OS X 10.2 is going to have some -nice-
support for hardware acceleration in the UI, but you'll need a 32M board
in order to take full advantage of it.  Once you get a machine like that
though, you'll be in love.

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org] On
Behalf Of Leslie Connally
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 1:47 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: [rescue] New Workstation..

All this talk has me interested in a U30...
OR a new G4 OSX Mac..
OR...


U30.
$400-650 ish depending on memory
2x SCSI HDD
Creator 3D


G4 OSX Mac 800
$1300ish
BSD/NeXT/OSX
ATA HDD
256MB
whatever current Radeon or whatever

used B7W G3 350
$650ish
will run OSX, but stressed?

any thoughts?


Les