[TriLUG] somewhat OT: mac hardware

[William Sutton]

Dunno 'bout the tower stuff but the notebooks use usb for keyboard/mouse 
and dvi for video out.  FWIW.

William

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Jason Tower wrote:

> in order to better support a couple of clients who run macs, i'd like to 
> get myself a mac that i can use to acquaint myself with OS9 and OSX.  
> doesn't need to be a speed demon, but i shouldn't be a slug either.  
> i'm well versed in x86 hardware but clueless about macs - i've done 
> enough homework to know that i want a G4 (not a G3) to support the 
> altivec stuff, beyond that i have no idea what i should be looking for.  
> i know that quite a few triluggers run macs, so if anyone can help 
> point me in the right direction i'd appreciate it.
> 
> also, a couple of related questions:
> 
> - do G4's take standard PC100/133 ram?  i seem to recall someone saying 
> that they require 5v rather than the more common 3.3v stuff, is this 
> true?
> 
> - do they typically have ps/2 kbd/mouse ports and vga video?  i want to 
> hook it up to my raritan ps/2 kvm switch, due to space constraints a 
> seperate kbd/mouse/monitor are not an option.
> 
> thanks all - jason
>