2009/8/3 ll <[email protected]>: > > I have a Powermac Quick Silver 733 with a 30 gig hard drive and > 1.3 gig ram. I just purchased a 933 processor for this on ebay for > $40. I want to replace the hard drive but am having problems finding > one on the internet.I have been using hard drive for quick silver with > no luck. > I would like to get at least a 60 hd or 80 if the machine will > take it and costs will allow.I understand I will have to purchase the > os before I finish the upgrade.It will take a while to get this for a > reasonable price.I have leopard 10.7 on the machine.It came with that. > I hope this is the right group. Two groups have told me I have > contacted the wrong one. This machine is a G4 of course. > > Do I need to get the os dvds before I have the 933 processor put > in?If I have the 933 processor put in,will it be easier to fool the > machine to reinstall leopard when I increase the hard drive? The > installed hard drive is a Quantum Fireball and not the original for > the computer. > Someone has suggested correctly that,the upgrades I propose will > make the computer close to to a Mac mini in cost. That may be true > but I don't want a Mac Mini with Intel.
What Andreas said! Yes, this is a good place. No, you don't particularly need to reinstall the OS before or after changing the CPU. If you copy the contents of the old HD onto the new one, you don't even need to do it then. Disk Utility has a "restore" function that will duplicate a whole volume in one operation for you, or you can use the free Carbon Copy Cloner. A Quicksilver should be fine with any EIDE disk up to 120GB. Above 128GB, it might work, it might not. You can try it and see - you will not harm either computer or drive if it doesn't work, the Mac just might not see all the capacity of the drive. You can get new 120GB EIDE 3.5" drives here in the UK for around £30. That's under US$50. Personally, I have tried 10.5 on a G5 and found it a bit slow and unresponsive. I suspect 10.4 will be faster, but soon that goes out of support. This may be a problem for you, or it may not. You can still use newer apps on 10.4 for now - the latest versions of iTunes, Quicktime, Safari and so on from Apple all work on 10.4 as far as I know. So does Firefox 3.5 and other new browsers and apps. In a year or 2, though, it will probably start to get hard to find apps. I understand preferring a "proper" PowerMac to a "MacIntel", but it must be said - the Intel machines are /much/ faster, especially if you have native apps. I almost never use any Classic apps any longer, and of course, with 10.5, you can't anyway. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
