on 10/11/01 10:50 AM, Ron Ward at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Bryan: thanks much for the advice. I didn't realize there were so many > "patches" for diablo. My kids seem to know more about these things than I. > I'm a single dad trying to raise 3 girls, (2teens and 1 preteen). We have 2 > imacs and my Mac G-4. I just ordered more memory for the G-4, another 512 > mb chip from low end mac. That should max me out to the 1.5gb mem allowed on > the G-4. I still think I can use the larger h.d. and that will help with not > only all of the things they are doing, a lot of school projects that in my > day were just dreams and today involve a push of the button on my mac. I > have been told the 60 gb hd, while still 7200rpm, the same as mine, will > give me a little more stability. Are they very difficult to install? Once I > do that, I think I'm just going to sit back and learn all I can about this > machine and enjoy working with it. If I might add a hint to all out there > that wants to get more speed and stability, I went to the Motorola websight > and there are files there, VbasicOps, VBigNum, VectorOps, VMathlib. I > donwloaded them last night and I couldn't believe the improvement it has > made. According to Motorola, these drivers will help to speed up and > stabilize their Power PC chip, regardless of which one it is. The website > is www.mot.com/SPS/PowerPC/library/fact_sheet/libmoto/_download.html > It's a mouthful, but they have a lot of drivers and apps you can install to > assist their chip functions. I swear, I can't believe the improvements it > has made since I've installed these. According to them, these drivers cause > the the chip to somehow speed up the math processing and highly optimizes > memory for strings and mathlib functions for the Power Mac chips. It's > worth looking into and they are free!!! Thanks again, to everyone who > responded, you are all quality people and it's so nice to feel so welcome in > the Mac family as you've made me feel. Sincerely, Ron in Austin > > Nicely said Ron, & thanks for the Motorola tip. The G-List rocks!
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