Can only boot OS X from one IDE device, which must be set to “master”.Horribly outdated ATI Rage Pro GPU really struggles with Mac OS X.Internal IDE bus limited to 128 GB hard drives.Issues with IDE drives larger than 8 GB.2 motherboard support up to 4 IDE drives. May include a built-in 100 MB Zip drive.Supports up to 768 MB of RAM (about $30 these days).3 PCI slots for video cards, USB cards, etc.Last Power Mac in a traditional desktop configuration. Last Power Mac with a built-in floppy drive.
Runs Mac OS 8 through OS X 10.4 Tiger (officially supported to 10.2).Max out RAM to 768 MB, and you’ve spent $90. The absolute cheapest is a used 300 MHz beige G3 – $25 from Beta Macs. Today I’m working on the Power Mac G3 price tracker.
That raises the question, Is it worth it? Beige G3 And Time Machine and AirPort hardware and Apple TV and iPods.Īnyhow, I’ve noticed that for some older Macs, shipping can cost more than the computer. To round things out, we also track prices for the Classic Mac OS, earlier versions of OS X, and OS X 10.5 Leopard.
We also track the price of memory upgrades for these Macs, and we recently added estimated shipping costs (based on our location in Michigan). We do price trackers for all Macs that are supported by some version of Mac OS X, from beige G3 Power Macs and WallStreet PowerBooks through today’s Intel-based Macs. One of my interesting jobs at Low End Mac is compiling our price trackers, which have evolved quite a bit over the years.