Apple Mac : what model for Ubuntu ?

[Eric Dunbar]

> So I will wait for a super mint one to show up on ebay, and hopefully by
> the time one appears, my finances will allow me to bid on it.
> I was hoping that a dual beige G3 existed, but looking at "applemuseum"
> site, it seems that only the G4's had such a motherboard.

The 9600 was also a dual-processor (and, if you're willing to go
really far back, you could get a 1990 vintage Mac II fx (a MONSTER of
a machine for its era) which could have up to 6 CPUs IIRC (it made
some multimedia/graphics apps work at speeds that were years ahead of
anything else... this was in an era when the fastest single-speed CPU
on 386 or 68030 was 40-60 MHz)

> Maybe it's possible to retro-fit a G4 motherboard to a Tower Beige G3
> case ? That would be ideal...

I'd go straight for the G4. Retro-fitting it into a Beige G3 will
result in power supply and port issues (plus, I doubt the boards
fit)... However, I have heard of people taking G4 boards and putting
them in over-sized AT cases (more drive bays).

Eric.