On Jan 23, 2010, at 4:47 PM, A.McCullough wrote:
On 1/23/2010 4:03 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote:
If you want to reuse parts like memory, you're much better off
with the Dual-1
GHz Quicksilver, or even a Dual-800 (like mine!). Beware that the
Quicksilver
2002 is the first to support large hard drives> 128 GB (system
board Rev. B).
Full ACK. Consider the QS option for you (buying a used one for
around 100
Dollars with no HDDs and no RAM makes your upgrade easy -- you'd
just go for
the CPU speed).
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the QS can take the PC100
DIMMs also,
right?
Okay, this brings up another question... let's say I did that:
would the HD from my current Sawtooth (with all the apps that came
with it, many of which do not have any physical media for
reinstalling) work as-is in a faster QS? In a Windows world, this
doesn't normally work - a pulled hard drive from an older machine
would (usually!) require a wiped drive and a full reinstall of the
OS and any applications because the OS generally doesn't natively
recognize a major hardware change without tossing its cookies, and
once you've got this fresh OS now all the apps need put back in.
I'd hate to lose half the stuff in this pleasantly reliable old
Sawtooth in the changeover (I know the DRIVE would function - it's
the software I'm concerned with). Does this work differently in Macs?
Anna
Just install the hard drive and boot it up most items will be
noticeably faster. There is no stumbling because of the upgraded CPU
that I've ever seen.
John Carmonne wtmm
Yorba Linda USA
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