On Jul 14, 2010, at 9:40 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jul 14, 2010, at 8:20 AM, Richard Gerome wrote:
I have a friend who has this G4 Power Mac M5183 tower and
keyboard she doesn't have the monitor, she wants to upgrade this
machine to it's full capacity and run Tiger 10.4.11 so she can do
her web design work and it needs to be dual boot OS9.2.2 too...
She can't afford a new one and she is frustrated with the PC she
is now using... Anyone out there have any ideas??? I know we need
to max the memory and I don't know what the max is... How about a
HD what would be the best and the biggest to make it faster??? How
about upgrading the processor??? I haven't opened it up yet to see
what it has in it yet, but she wants to do everything she can to
get some more yrs out of it... As far as she knows it is still
stock except for maybe memory... I have heard some of you talk
about the B&W, Sawtooth, Yikes, etc etc etc do you know what this
one is??? Thank You!!! Rich
The M5183 is a G4 AGP, aka 'Sawtooth'
In general:
Max the RAM
Add larger HDD's, although most G4's have a 128GB limit on the
built-in IDE controller, which can be gotten around.
Upgrade the processor.
Upgrade the video.
Pay very close attention to costs, however, since you can pretty
rapidly get into 'just buy a used G5 tower' territory quite
quickly. G4's are not really the sweet spot for upgrades they were
several years ago, and the Sawtooth is the very base model of those.
It'll boot 9.2 just fine, and is officially supported up to 10.4
and runs 10.5 quite happily with a CPU upgrade.
(The 10.5 installer looks at the speed of the CPU, so with an
upgrade faster than 867 MHz, it installs 10.5 out of the box, no
helper programs needed.)
What CPU upgrade is availible for these DA's? Will a QuickSilver MOBO
fit?
John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA
Sent from my TiBook 500
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