How did you upgrade your Mac?

[New2Macs]

My G4 Power Mac Sawtooth came originally shipped with 400 mhz processer, 128 megs of memory, 6 gig hard drive and cd/ dvd rom.

I have upgraded it to a 1 gig processor with the sonnet card. The memory is now 768 megs of memory and the hardrive is 80 gigs. I also switech out the old cd/rom/dvd for a plextor DVD burner. This thing runs Vectorworks and photoshop with no problems at all. I have definitely got my money out of this machine...

 

[Brigrat]

My PowerBook shipped with a 1.33ghz processor, 60GB 4200RPM hard drive, and and 256MB of Ram, I upgraded to a 540RPM 80GB Hard drive, and added a GB of RAM. Added a Dell 2005FPW 20 inch wide screen monitor, a nice set of speakers, a Blutooth phone to use as a modem, airport express, Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and the ultimate desk type setup that surrounds my reliner. It is the best office in town!

 

[scooter]

Almost the same.....

Purchased G4 Sawtooth w/ 400mhz, 256mb, 10gig, DVD ROM, AGP Pro 128.

Now G4 w/ 1ghz Sonnet, 1.28 gigs, 10 + 80 gig, DVD+-RW, ATI 9000Pro 128.

Pretty happy so far. Was eyeing the new 1.7 Ghz Sonnet though...... :biohazard

 

[jhelm007]

I purchased a Sawtooth brand new in 1999 with 450 MHz processor, 384MB ram, 10GB HD, DVD-ROM, Zip100, and the matching 17in studio CRT. All totaled I think that came to about $3000.

Since then I've had to replace the video card so I got a radeon 9000 (64mb), I maxed out the memory (1 GB), added a FW800/USB2.0 combo PCI card, Motorola 802.11g PCI card, and an ATA133 host adapter and an 80 GB 7200RPM HD. I replaced the zip100 with a zip250 and the DVD-ROM with a DVD-RW. Oh and I bought a 1.4 GHz Gigadesigns upgrade, which is now running OC'd to 1.5 GHz.

So now that I have spent roughly $5000 over 6 years I have a computer that specs out about like a $600 Mac Mini ;-/

I've also gone through more external devices and periferals than I could ever hope to list here.