They really were not bad machines for the time. Decent processor and upgradable memory and since they had both IDE and SCSI they had some good expansion options. I have seen that you could and both ether net and USB to the systems which I think I might try in a future video.
I had no idea about this until your comment. Spent some time reading more about this topic and thought it was very interesting. I am sure it came down to Apple wanting to get the new machine out and taking some short cuts that included many trade offs.
Part of why I choose run 7.5.3 on this system, I just wanted a machine with that OS but will a little more punch then my SE, and given that all my LLcis have issues (need to be recapped. ). I have some other PowerPC based systems (including a Dual G5) to run OS8 and OS9 which I will be adding to the network in future videos.
Great video on the Performa 6300 series!
Glad you liked it!
Ah yeah I remember when these were brand new.
They really were not bad machines for the time. Decent processor and upgradable memory and since they had both IDE and SCSI they had some good expansion options. I have seen that you could and both ether net and USB to the systems which I think I might try in a future video.
160MHz CPU but still hobbled by the Valkyrie ASIC from the Quadra 630 line.
I had no idea about this until your comment. Spent some time reading more about this topic and thought it was very interesting. I am sure it came down to Apple wanting to get the new machine out and taking some short cuts that included many trade offs.
@@8BitDoodads-sm6tj Yeah the 5200/5300 had the same thing. The 60MHz 6100 was actually faster than the 5200 with the 75MHz 603e.
Part of why I choose run 7.5.3 on this system, I just wanted a machine with that OS but will a little more punch then my SE, and given that all my LLcis have issues (need to be recapped. ). I have some other PowerPC based systems (including a Dual G5) to run OS8 and OS9 which I will be adding to the network in future videos.