new apple user

worrwhorre · 03-26-2006, 05:19 PM

i recently bought an apple g3 with OS X 10.4 off ebay for about 100 bucks. i received and and played around with it to get a feel for how it works. i noticed that it only has about 256 MB of ram and a small HD. i've never owned an apple before and i was wondering if i can upgrade the ram and HD? if so, are there special types of ram and hard drives that are compatible with the g3 or will any do?

prank5ter · 03-26-2006, 05:41 PM

Hi there, I bought a G3 off ebay too, lol, I went to a site www.macupgrades.co.uk it's really good it's really easy to follow the upgrades.
It also depends how much you want to spend, I have Mac OSX panther, 512mb Ram and an 80 gb hard drive, runs alot quicker, not as quick as a new machine but okay for me. Hope that helps, prank5ter.

worrwhorre · 03-26-2006, 05:43 PM

thanks for the website but i live in the US.

prank5ter · 03-26-2006, 05:48 PM

The specs should be the same, have you tried http://www.apple.com/support/imac/g3/doityourself/

talldude123 · 03-26-2006, 06:19 PM

go to an Apple store and get them to order parts for you.

I heard that Apples are the same as PC's inside, they use the same components.

macdude425 · 03-26-2006, 06:28 PM

Why take it to an Apple store? They're likely to charge an arm and a leg to do it, and he should be able to do it himself.

Is it this G3?
http://lowendmac.com/ppc/g3c.shtml

worrwhorre · 03-26-2006, 06:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by macdude425
Why take it to an Apple store? They're likely to charge an arm and a leg to do it, and he should be able to do it himself.

Is it this G3?
http://lowendmac.com/ppc/g3c.shtml

yes its the blue and white one

macdude425 · 03-26-2006, 06:55 PM

OK, then you can just use sticks of PC100 RAM no bigger than 256MB and get a standard IDE drive for it (no bigger than 128GB without a PCI controller card because the hardware can't handle it).

worrwhorre · 03-26-2006, 07:47 PM

i have 256 already in it so i can't put anymore in it right? and can i set up a second hard drive for storage?

edit: do you mean the sticks can't be bigger than 256 or the total memory can't exceed 256 MB? i did some research and i read that the memory can be expanded to 1 gig, is that true?

macdude425 · 03-26-2006, 09:19 PM

The sticks cannot exceed 4x256, or 1GB. You can add as many HDs as you have controllers.

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