maffoo wrote:
neofree wrote:
Looking at Macs under $100 on eBay. Most are G3 300-400Mhz. Are these worth anything? Could I convert an AVI to DVD with it?
Yep, they're worth somewhere between $0 and $100 :-D (Sorry, couldn't resist!)
Those Macs should be able to convert AVI to DVD with something like FFMpegX, as long as they run OS X 10.3 or higher (I think G3s can, can't be bothered to look it up though.)
Yes, a G3 is still supported under OS X 10.4.x. However it runs really poorly. I'm currently using an iBook G3 500Mhz while my MacBookPro is away with Apple being serviced and it is barely usable. It can't play DivX full-speed and you can forget about multitasking. Just about gets by as a web browsing machine using Safari (Camino and Firefox are too slow). You could use it to convert video but it would have to be left overnight.
If you're getting an old G3 Mac and intend running OS X, make sure that the graphics card is supported by Quartz Extreme (16MB ATI Radeon minimum) and that you have at least 512MB RAM. If you actually intend doing anything useful with it, though, IMO a G4-500 with 32MB graphics is absolute minimum.
