wow, thank you for the info!, just curious.. what did you have to pay foe the 1.6 cpu upgrade and was it simple to install? any problems encountered? Jeff On Jan 19, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Amanda Ward wrote:
> > Jeff... > > On Jan 19, 2009, at 7:13 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > >> Are you running tiger on the sawtooth and DA? and if not, how did you >> get leopard to install? what's your experience so far with it. Thank >> you. Jeff >> >> Jeff Engle >> Kamiah, Idaho 83536 > > I'm running Leopard on both. The Sawtooth has a third-party 1.6 GHz > CPU so there were no problems installing 10.5. The DA is a 733 and > below the 867 cutoff, but I found a firmware tweak to fool the > installer into believing the 733 is really an 867: > http://lowendmac.com/osx/leopard/openfirmware.html > > The DA was never one of my main machines... ranks at the bottom of my > active macs. Mostly I use it for network storage and crunching > s...@home work-units. Still, when I use it directly for something, via > screen sharing, the performance is adequate. > > Amanda > > Active Macs > iMac, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz > Sawtooth G4, 1.6 GHz > Powerbook G4, 1.5 GHz > Digital Audio G4, 733 MHz > == > Occasional Macs > Gigabit Ethernet Dual G4, 450 MHz > B&W G3, G4/450 MHz CPU > iMac G3, 333 MHz > Powerbook G3, 266MHz > > ... and a couple o' halfway decent peecees. > > > Paypal strongly preferred at: [email protected] Ships from: Jeff Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 208-935-0992 eBay ID: Bluebedheads w/290+ pos. feedback --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
