ok totse i have a old powerbook 520c

[dark_rider_666]

now i know some stuff, it's got 12,288k ram, but i dont know how many megabytes that is, it's running os 7.6, which i plan to downgrade so it loads faster, and plus my macintosh performa only has os 7.5.3, probaly not mutch i can do with it, but just thought i would tell you, and i dont know if the processor has been upgraded to a power pc, is there a way i can check this WITHOUT pulling it apart?

and it's got a 257.3 mb hard disk

[TheGreenDoctor]

Its got 12 Megabytes of RAM not bad for a Powerbook of that age. My Powerbook Duo 210 only has 8 MB RAM. I would suggest System 7.5.5 if you downgrade. My IIsi runs that no problem and it's a 20MHZ '030 processor. Should be no problem for a 25MHZ '040. Although you could put System 8 on it... Anyway, I would suggest, if you can find it, to upgrade the memory to 36 MB. That should give you enough memory for some older games/programs. I actually did sound recordings with my Duo and they came out pretty good. The only problem was that it took a while to render effects.

As for your performa, what model is it?

[dark_rider_666]

Its got 12 Megabytes of RAM not bad for a Powerbook of that age. My Powerbook Duo 210 only has 8 MB RAM. I would suggest System 7.5.5 if you downgrade. My IIsi runs that no problem and it's a 20MHZ '030 processor. Should be no problem for a 25MHZ '040. Although you could put System 8 on it... Anyway, I would suggest, if you can find it, to upgrade the memory to 36 MB. That should give you enough memory for some older games/programs. I actually did sound recordings with my Duo and they came out pretty good. The only problem was that it took a while to render effects.

As for your performa, what model is it?

well i plan on running text based adventure games, because also i have a pentium four, and a g3 powerbook
the performa and the powerbook 520c, and the performa is a 5260/120 in used condition, with USUALY a 7.9 gb hard disk, which is currently in the g4 running linux, and it has 32 mb ram

[TheGreenDoctor]

Your performa came with a powerPC 603 processor. It maxes out at 64 MB RAM. theres probably not too much you can do with it but play older games and word processing.

[hedonist]

Run RF packet software on it. Those things last.