Originally Posted by Jafro
1400c?!!!!!! Man, that's my least favorite of all Macs, but for some reason it's a collector's item in Japan. I carried one of those around for a year, and might have got 20 minutes worth of actual use from it. Not because it was broken or anything, but because it took it almost 11 months to finish booting (not really).
ATA-133 seems to be the best storage option. I've had tons of SCSI devices, and the big drives are still really expensive. I got the 250GB Maxtor drive from CompUSA for $120. I couldn't pass it up. I just can't hold but one more of them in this case (2 drives max). That's the biggest problem.
All the awards that Apple had won for case design should have been taken away after they built the 8100, 8500 and 9500's. Those cases are teh suck.
On the 1400: I have the active matrix 16-bit color screen, all 48 MB of RAM and a 1 GB drive.
h: If I stumble across on of the G3 upgrade cards for a reasonable price, I'll probably go for it - for shits and giggles. And I partitioned the drive into two volumes, specifically to have barebones systems that can boot (fairly) quickly. Hey, it handles my writing and other menial work beautifully. :shrug:
On storage.... yeah, the lack of drive space is a pain. What's the largest drive you can manage (with your Sonnet card)?
Case Design: Yes. Preach on. Only the 6100/66 is worse...
h:
IMHO, the case design on the Blue & White G3's , and the G4 desktops is the finest since the IIfx went out of production.
That baby was immense...you could park your car inside if ya wanted..
