If I had the time and money (mostly money) to do this, I would settle for nothing less than a Quadra 840AV. Be prepared to spend $$$$, though; the 840 is quickly approaching 'investment grade'.
If I wanted the "all in one" experience, I would get the SE/30. Once again, these are kinda pricey..... > -----Original Message----- > From: ot...@oryx.us > Sent: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:26:06 -0500 > To: gene...@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: Building the Ultimate Classic Mac. > > I went thru this exercise myself a couple of years back. Even kicked off > a > thread on a Mac email list. > > I don't/didn't have any experience or background with the Mac on the 68K, > so > that didn't come into my decision making. > > I ultimately decided that I didn't need the fastest/biggest/most memory > power > house Mac that would run Classic. I just needed to run my Mac OS apps > and games > that would never be ported to x86. > > I purchased a G4 cube and have been happy with that decision. I can boot > up > into Mac OS 9.x, and also boot into OS X 10.4 with Classic support. > > This was what worked well for me. I will be interested to see what you > ultimately end up choosing. > > Jerry > > > On 07/15/16 02:03 PM, Austin Pass wrote: >> I'm toying with putting the "ultimate" classic Mac together, although >> I'm >> having a little difficulty pinning down the definition of what the >> ultimate >> representation of the type is, so was looking for a little input from >> Classic CMP'ers. >> >> I'm aware that there's a clear divide between Motorola and PowerPC CPU'd >> variants, so I'm going to plump for a PowerPC based version so that I >> can >> get access to newer hardware and use it as a kind of bridge system >> between >> my current computers and the more historic versions. >> >> In terms of hardware I have a lovely mirror-door G4 PowerMac I'm >> intending >> to use. I have the original media that shipped with this, so I can get >> 9.2.1 on it relatively easily. Are there any add-in cards (PCI) I >> should >> be considering? It has a built in Airport Card (possibly Airport >> Extreme?) >> although my home Wi-Fi is 802.11n or better with WPA2 so I'll just use >> Ethernet to connect it to my LAN. Was a gigabit ethernet card ever >> released with Mac OS 9 drivers? I have a couple of 600GB PATA disks >> that I >> can use with it, but has there ever been a SATA implementation that >> worked >> with classic Mac OS? >> >> Also, I have an Asanté ether bridge tucked away somewhere that I hope to >> be >> able to use to connect some of my older Mac OS boxen without Ethernet. >> >> In terms of the software - any top-line utilities or System Extensions I >> should look to get my hands on? What's the state of the art in classic >> Mac >> OS browsing nowadays, Mr Kaiser - is Clasilla still maintained? >> >> -Austin. >> ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/marineaquarium
