On Thursday, Sep 5, 2002, at 21:27 Europe/London, PowerLogix guy wrote:
>> I have noticed recently an upward trend in the speed of CPU upgrades >> for legacy PCI PowerMac machines with Sonnet producing a new 800MHz >> slot card upgrade. I, however recently sold my 7500 and bought a >> G3/400 Blue & White Rev 2 due to the need to use ATA hard disks inthe >> machine and also run OS X reliably and at a decent speed. I have >> noticed there seems to be a ceiling of 550MHz on the upgrades for >> Apple's PowerMac G3 and G4 Yikes! machines. Is this a factor >> controlled by the motherboard or the upgrade? > > A proprietary chip on the motherboard. > >> Is there any plan to build a faster upgrade, maybe up to 750MHz or >> even 1GHz for the model of machine I own or is this not possible? > > Although we cannot comment on unannounced products, I can say that we > have done extensive work on doing what you are asking for. We have not > decided whether to finish the development and bring out the product. > Stay > tuned over the next few weeks for potential announcements. What do you guys make of the above statement? I was able to prize it out of the grasp of PowerLogix. I read it again after I'd gotten over the shock of having a tech support reply on a query within 1 hour of sending! It says to me PL are mulling over using a dodge to get around the speed limit on B&W G3s. If they do and it works in OS X I am going to be the first on their customer list! Not to mention they are a thoroughly nice bunch of ppl - they told be exactly where to buy in the UK too :). -- Mark Benson AIM - SilValleyPirate Visit FlatPackMacs online: <http://fpm.gotdns.com> Mac LC Central -- 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>
