Is this old Mac 7100-80 worth upgrading?? Mac people please help!

[mwilcko]

Hi,
My girlfriend has an old Mac 7100-80 with 40 megs of ram... she tries to use Quark and Photoshop and it is very slow... seems more like a memory problem to me than cpu power(too many fonts installed). What type of 72 pin dimms does it use, parity or non-parity? Is it cheap to upgrade and easy to upgrade the video memory? Where is a good and cheap place to get mac memory upgrades? Thanks,
Matt

 

[Phuz]

DO her a fav and burn it
Seriously, just look up mac support on apple.com and look for her model.
You'll find out what you need there.

 

[Rand]

Info on it is here: Power Mac 7100/80

 

[ledzepp98]

good lord, i think i could get a pad and pencil and draw a picture faster than photoshop can on that thing. seriously, i don't know what upgrades to recommend other than a new computer.

 

[ViRGE]

Trash it, it's not worth the time or effot to upgrade it; it's really not much more than a 486 from the upgrade standpoint.

 

[RossMAN]

If your g/f had a PowerMac G3 or G4 then it would be worth upgrading, easier and cost less. Unfortunately the PowerMac 7100/8100 is really old and upgrading the RAM will do little to speed up photoshop, etc. The way I see it she has 3 options (listed in order of best):

1) Build a PC, will cost less and run circles around her Mac. Cheap and fast you could do A LOT with only $500.
2) Buy a new or used Mac, for instance I'm selling my iMac rev B (PowerPC G3/266, 96MB RAM, 4GB HD, 10/100 Ethernet, USB, 24x CD-ROM, 15" monitor) with keyboard and mouse. Since Apple recently released the new PowerMac G4's the best deal is on the older G4's which would be phenomenally faster than her current 7100/8100, they also use industry standard PC133 SDRAM, ATA Hard Drives, EIDE, blah blah blah. So upgrading is a lot easier and cheaper.
3) Continue using what she currently has.

If she doesn't HAVE TO HAVE the Mac OS, I'd say bring her over to the dark side (Windows) she'll get a lot more bang for her buck with an AMD Duron 750.