- a) ONE Power Macintosh AV card for the Power Mac 6100 (NEW IN BOX..... !!!!!) (part#: M3447LL/A) (2 MB VRAM)
- b) TWO 64 MB SIMMs (RAM)
My new system specs are like this now:
Macintosh Performa 6115CD/AV (Power Macintosh 6100/AV)
.
Sonnet Crescendo G3 @ 480 MHz, 1 MB cache
.
136 MB RAM
.
4.0 GB HDD (Quantum Fireball - SCSI)
.
Apple 300i CD Rom (2x - SCSI)
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Mac OS 9.1
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10Base-T Ethernet (add-on transceiver; Farallon)
.
Sonnet Crescendo G3 @ 480 MHz, 1 MB cache
.
136 MB RAM
.
4.0 GB HDD (Quantum Fireball - SCSI)
.
Apple 300i CD Rom (2x - SCSI)
.
Mac OS 9.1
.
10Base-T Ethernet (add-on transceiver; Farallon)
My screen resolution and bit-depth have gone up...
From:
640 x 480 @ 16-bit (Thousands of colors)
To:
832 x 624 @ 32-bit (Millions of colors)
So.... what have I learned from all this?
- Pluging the VGA monitor's cable into the old motherboard connector only limits you to 16-bit color at 640x480. Simply connecting the monitor to the AV card gives you access to higher bit-depths and higher resolutions. (you *MUST* have a Mac-to-VGA adapter in order to use this connection scheme)
- Using RamDoubler 9.x with 136 MB of physical RAM or more only limits you to 240 MB of "doubled" RAM. (Ram Doubler 9.x employs a software scheme that usually lets you 'double' or 'triple' your RAM)
- Internet Explorer 5.0 on the Windows side is actually bearable... at least more websites work with it than the Mac port of IE 5.0
- Internet Explorer 6.0 ACTUALLY RUNS!!! AND RUNS FAST!!!!! However, I ran into a few errors.... most likely due to the lack of RAM or resources available to the VPC app.
- FireFox 1.5.0.8 RUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fast? Well.............. maybe just slightly slower than IE 6.0.... but OMG............. AT LEAST I GOT A MODERN, COMPATIBLE BROWSER ON MY OLD 6100!!!!! WOOT!!!
- Haven't tried FireFox 2.0 yet. But I -DO- have it installed..........
STAY TUNED!
