Jonas:
He might have meant she'd be saving up for a G5. Yes, you're right,
for $400-500, it's not worth it to upgrade just to a faster G4, when
you can get a used G5 for almost the same money.
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You're going to end up paying 400-500 dollars for an upgrade like that. It's
not worth it.-Jonas
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:02 PM, mark ray wrote:
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> So she meets 2 out of 3. Unfortunately, the one she does not even come
> close to is the most important here, and that is the processor. The QS 73
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> So she meets 2 out of 3. Unfortunately, the one she does not even
> come close to is the most important here, and that is the processor.
> The QS 733 has no L3 cache, so it runs like a 533Mhz with a cache.
> Which is basically 1/3 of the speed of a G5 1.6.
>
> A processor upgrade will g
On Mar 9, 2009, at 8:47 PM, mark ray wrote:
> A neighbor has a G4 QS (733Mhz) 1.5GB Ram, a 40GB HD and a 120GB HD,
> a new nVidia Geoforce 6200 256mb video card running a 20" lcd
> monitor. Tried both wireless and direct enet connections to the
> router. It runs great, BUT, she wants to ru
You might want to look into CPU upgrade cards, what model is the mac?
On 3/9/09, mark ray wrote:
> A neighbor has a G4 QS (733Mhz) 1.5GB Ram, a 40GB HD and a 120GB HD, a
> new nVidia Geoforce 6200 256mb video card running a 20" lcd monitor.
> Tried both wireless and direct enet connections to t
A neighbor has a G4 QS (733Mhz) 1.5GB Ram, a 40GB HD and a 120GB HD, a
new nVidia Geoforce 6200 256mb video card running a 20" lcd monitor.
Tried both wireless and direct enet connections to the router. It runs
great, BUT, she wants to run World Of Warcraft and she says the frame
rate is a
