At about 3:39 PM -0400 on 10/14/03, Rick Rodman wrote: >>> The 8500 I spoke of with the G3 card ran Mac OS 9 beautifully, >>>but even if I'd been able to push the RAM up to 128MB, it wouldn't >>>have run 10.0. >> >>It would if you used something like Ryan Rempel's free XPostFacto >>utility to install Jaguar. I've been running OS X (and now Jag) on >>an 8600/G4-400 for a couple of years, although I decided to use the >>installer utility from Sonnet Technology (not free) with my Sonnet >>upgrade card. > >That is really neat. Makes me wish I still had the 8500. It was a >reasonably compact machine with lots of expansion capability. Your >8600 is even more compact - connect some fast SCSI drives, and it >could make a very nice server. Yeah, what's even neater is that I threw in an ATA-133 card and then added the stock 20G drive I took out of the Cube when the Cube got the 80G Barracuda. The 8600 also now has an internal ATA CD-RW, plus FireWire, USB and Radeon 7000. Can't think of much more! Somehow it seems faster than the G4-400 Sawtooth I have at work, but it could be just favoritism :) -ms -- Marc Stergionis Communications/Web Specialist Benefis Healthcare http://www.benefis.org "Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer."