[rescue] need Mac Upgrade Advice!!!

[joshua d boyd]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:56:41PM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> so the guy dropped off the macs today.  fastest ones are the 5260/100 boxes.
> they have ethernet.  that's perfect.  i want to set one of these up for my
> daughter to use.  she like cartoonnetwork.com a LOT.  but this thing is just
> DOG SLOW.  100Mhz 603e, you'd think it would be faster.  but it looks like this
> thing has a CPU upgrade slot.  what sorta CPUs can i get for this thing and how
> free are they?  i don't really want to spend any money on this thing.

OK, there was also a 120mhz CPU for that machine.  probably won't help you
much.  One decent way to upgrade is to pull the 5260 mobo and pop in a
5400 or 5500.  That will get you up to 250mhz.  Plus, if you do that, you
will now be able to consider G3 upgrades.

With out doing a mobo swap, that machine is reguarded as a POS.  For one
thing, it uses a 32bit memory bus.  Blech.

See http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/5260.shtml.  

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Joshua D. Boyd