[G4] G4 dual 500 Mystic questions

[Roger Harris]

These Run Tiger well, the RAM drive is read only, Zip works. Issue:  
these had a tendency to corrupt hard drives. There is a firmware at  
Apple that will fix this. When these first came out many had the  
power button go bad; And this often took out the MB. This was shortly  
resolved and only seemed to happen in the first few months of  
operation.  I don't recall any of this happening out of warrantee.

I just had a student buy a Quicksilver 733 for $325 so I don't think  
you will get a Mini out of it. Selling used you won't gain anything  
by adding RAM or another drive. Selling with the monitor may get $350  
to $400; If you are lucky you may get $350 for just the tower. The  
$500 Mini has put a lot of pressure on the used Macs. There are new  
but earlier model Minis going for $470 with 512 ram and the larger  
drive at SmallDog.

roger


On Dec 2, 2005, at 6:00 AM, Wade Tinney wrote:

> Mac guys and gals,
>
> I just picked up a G4 dual 500 MHz "Mystic" Gigabit Ethernet from  
> eBay, and I have some questions.
>
> These came with a DVD - Ram drive.  Will it burn CDs?
>
> How well does it run with Tiger?  Any issues?
>
> Will the Zip drive work under Tiger?
>
> Any additional info will be appreciated.
>
>
> I'm wondering if I can get enough for it to buy my friend a Mini  
> instead, because he's always dragging his computers over to my  
> place so I can fix them or show him how to do things.