on 10/11/01 12:50 PM, 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).
Wow, and you have time to even read email???? :) > 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. That is a serious, serious amount of memory... I know people who are professional designers who are envying you. :) Make sure you go to your applications' icon and raise its memory allocation. (click the icon, go to get info under file, select memory from the pop up and raise it way up) or your apps won't know to use the extra memory. I don�t' know about the stability claims... Most people can get by just fine with a 20gig hard drive, or 40 if you use are going to be getting into video, etc. Video eats disk space like you wouldn't believe. If you are having space issues now, then yes, a bigger hard drive will definetly help things. > 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. On your machine, not at all. Check out the link below which I believe has tutorials with pictures on installing drives in g4's and g3's. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ > 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 These were a big deal on a few 3d lists I'm on awhile back... They were actually released back with the PowerPC 601 chip. Some older programs actually installed them, but if I recall many of the things were rolled into the operating system at around 8-8.5, and the extensions can cause compatibility with certain programs, like photodeluxe, if you have them installed. Just something to watch out for. :) -- Michael Bryan Bell http://homepage.mac.com/michael_bell/ -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
