On May 18, 2010, at 9:24 AM, John Ruschmeyer wrote:
A minor caveat on installing a G4 in a B&W. Before installing the
G4, you
also have to install a firmware patch which removes the block on
G4s. Also,
based on a bad personal experience, I'd be wary of installing a G4
from a
Yikes in a Rev. 1 B&W.
I updated two of my Rev. 2 B&Ws to G4s (using Yikes! processors and
the usual firmware block removal application) mainly to be able to
run a later version of Toast, one which had some more standard
features than the older one.
I was under-whelmed by the performance of the pseudo-G4, and that
ultimately lead me to, first, the Gigabit Ethernet G4s (100 MHz bus),
and, second, to the Digital Audio G4s (133 MHz bus).
Every Digital Audio in my shop was eventually updated to a dual 1.0
GHz Quicksilver 2002 processor, but I stopped there with the G4s, as
the Intels proved to be tremendously faster, at least for the video
work which I do on a day-to-day basis.
I liked the Smurfs, but the Digital Audios proved to be an important,
and a significant upgrade, and I still use one at least 18 hours per
day (I am writing this on my last in-service DA), although most of my
video work has been shifted elsewhere.
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