The IBM PC 300GL was origionaly made for the business sector.
The higher spec machine similar to the 300GL was the 300PL which some had AGP graphics and LAN comunications support.
This was the lower spec of the two machines but still there wasn't alot of difference. If you wanted to have better graphics or LAN support you could fit a PCI graphics card or an extra LAN card. Many motherboards of this spec had at least 4 PCI slots and for this machine that was enough.
Some machines were fitted with Celeron 233-333 processors and others were fitted with Pentium 2's or 3's. The higher Pentium 3 machines were the better becuase of the extra 256 or 512 L2 cache which made processing quicker.
My origional machine had a Celeron 333 with 64mb ram fitted. The machine i then upgraded to a Pentium 3 which had 512 L2 cache and 384mb memory. The change to what i had before was dramatic especially when using the Internet.
One problem with the 300GL was that i couldn't fit a hardrive over 8.4gig, the motherboard wouldn't allow it, however the 300PL would fit a hardrive upto 20gig. Many motherboards in these machines have different specs so its always good to look on the Intel / IBM website for a motherboard manual.
Another thing was that missing AGP slot. I couldn't play the games i wanted. The better spec 300PL had the AGP slot and a better graphics card could boost my gaming performance.
My machine came with Windows 98 but i soon upgraded to Windows XP and it could handle it very well especially fitted with a Pentium 3.
Overall quite a good package.
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Reliability
Excellent
Memory / capacity
Good
Range of Extra Features
Satisfactory
Instruction manual
Very useful
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