On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Eric Feldhusen wrote:

> I'd highly recommend the Quadra 800. From what I've read, it doesn't have the 
> same scsi chipset as the AV models, so it has the fastest disk I/O of the 
> 680x0 based Macintosh.  I picked one up off ebay myself and run 1.6.1 on it, 
> and it "seems" faster than my 840av since I've never bothered to run any type 
> of benchmark on it.

I would recommend the Quadra 800, except that I loathe the case, which is 
why I say go with a Quadra 650.  Why the case is so bad:

http://www.lowendmac.com/roadapples/q800case.shtml

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Nathan Raymond