[Cube] Re: Hello everyone

[Gary Lauterback]

Hello 2 U 2 ...

What you choose to do depends on how much money you want to invest in your
Cube.

In my view (In order of importance) ...

1)  RAM.  Bump it up to 1.5 GIG (PC 100 or 133 RAM)
2)  7200 RPM Drive of a capacity you choose.
3)  Video Card, bump it up to 32 or 64 MB of Video RAM. (This'll allow
Quarts Extreme to kick in. In other words, faster screen redraws etc.  The
stock card won't allow QE to work.) Either ATI or nVidia.
4)  Obtain an Apple 80211b AirPort Card if you even think you want to go
wireless.  

Once you get this up and running, and as your experience level grows,
consider beefing up the CPU (Processor). I'll let others guide you here as I
am still running the Stock Processor.  I've done the upgrades noted above
and am very happy with the Cube.  My wife actually uses it.  It's running
Panther with out breaking a sweat.

Good luck!

Gary


On 5/26/05 5:45 PM, "cube-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com"
<cube-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> wrote:

> Hello -
> 
> I just wanted to drop a note and say hi.  I recently received a 450
> MHZ cube in a trade and am looking forward to getting it up to speed
> so I can run Tiger on it and use it as a word processing, email and
> browsing machine.
> 
> I believe that the specs are:
> 450 MHZ
> 128 or 256 MB RAM (not sure atm)
> 20 GIG HD
> CD Rom Drive
> 
> I plan on booting it up in the next couple of days to get better
> specs on it, just haven't had a chance as of yet.
> 
> If that were your machine what would you do to it to crank it up for
> Tiger and the use I mentioned.
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> -----
> Blake