Off topic :) Ken Cunningham wrote:
To get reasonable performance out of these machines I always max out the Ram (cheap cheap cheap on Ebay) and in most of them, flip in an SSD.
I tried outting a SSD in mine, but it run hiccups... so I bought a new spinning rust HD and that one works fine. Still a performance gain and also, plenty of space to build all those packages on 10.5 since there are no binaries :) So it is a lot of hit and miss with SSD and controllers.... especially on older machines which do not get any longer BIOS upgrades. In my case the disk was especially recommended by crucial for my Mac, but sometimes it just almost froze the computer requiring a reboot... super-slow. Either after high usage (swap) or sleep. Put in aMacBook Pro which has the *same* SATA controller, but surely different firmware, OS, etc.. it works.
I just leave it overnight and I usually get the package installed. Riccardo
