I don't think I buy it either. The Saw uses PC133 SDRAM and the G5s all use DDR, so the firmware from the G5 would only know how to talk to DDR RAM, not SDRAM.
This is one thing the LEM lists are very good at - exposing trolls. On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Albert Carter <[email protected]>wrote: > I don't know if I buy the 4 GB of RAM thing. His video didn't offer much > proof of that either. He showed the sticks installed he didn't take them out > and show us up-close detailed information and didn't show us in the hardware > profiler on the Macintosh > > I think he made modifications after all on April 21st Mark created a Topic: > Want to know how to modify the "About this Mac" window? I know I saved it > because I was intrigued and planned on researching this some on my own never > got a chance to. > > Albert > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Chance Reecher <[email protected]> > > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Sat, June 12, 2010 5:28:16 PM > > *Subject:* Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete? > > Alright, I'll believe the 4GB-in-a-Sawtooth deal, but not the 10.6.3. You > are going to want to hurt me for this, but YOUR VIDEO IS FAKE. You're either > running a Hackintosh or running 10.5 with a modified About This Mac dialog. > > Your big mistake was running front row. Front row on 10.6 requires a > graphics card with Quartz Extreme and Core Image. I've done my research, and > Q emulates a basic VGA card. Even if you could get Q to boot 10.6, you'd > have to use the generic VGA drivers, hence no QE/CI. > > Also, your About this Mac dialog - No matter what OS you run in Q, it will > never see the host machine specs. It would only see the hardware Q was > emulating. It's faked. (I know it can display whatever you want it to, I've > built several Hackintoshes and edited the file myself.) > > From what I've read about Q, on an INTEL MAC doing straight x86 to x86, it > emulates a ~500MHz PC. Imagine how slow a 400MHz G4 would be. There's no way > it would boot. You might get 10.6 to boot on a quad G5, but it wouldn't be > usable. > > The only counter-proof I'll believe is a full video from power button press > to the About this Mac dialog in 10.2 to Q booting 10.6 to the About this Mac > dialog in 10.6 running in the Q window, NOT full screen. > > Chance > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Mark Sokolovsky <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Here is that proof you wanted. Please, after you watch it, don't bug me >> about this subject ever again. I started what i thought would be an >> interesting conversation, but all i got is Fed up from other people annoying >> me with "It's fake" comments. Since iMovie wasn't compatible with the videos >> i recorded (I used my phone, it came out as .WMV files, grrr.) I uploaded >> into 5 parts. Well, enjoy! >> >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkV7zqF3dB8 Part 1 >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmDo-1u7fWo Part 2 >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpYHLe6iLpo Part 3 >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDdzP5SyzKs Part 4 >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgQ66PkMowg Part 5 >> >> Again. thanks for watching this video. I hope you enjoy it. Have a nice >> day everybody! Also, like I said, you can post comments (not rude ones.) on >> the video sites, but, don't bother me about this subject after you see the >> video and proof, because this has gone far enough. I wanted to keep this a >> secret, but I guess that the present is more exciting to tell about >> something like this than the future. 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