Re: Revisited: Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!

2010-07-29 Thread dc
Ends today. Newegg has the Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive for $56 - $16 off with coupon code EMCYVNP29 [Exp 7/29] = $40 with free shipping. Western Digital covers this product with a 3-year warranty. On Jul 28, 12:27 am, Richard Gerome

Swapping Out a G5 case

2010-07-29 Thread dc
I just replaced a G5 case. Sweet Mother of Steve Jobs, who designed these cases? Two things are apparent: 1) everything, down to the fasteners, is first class and built to last, and 2) it better last cause it's a beast to work on! I can swap out a G4 motherboard and have it up and running in under

Re: Revisited: Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!

2010-07-29 Thread Geke
Hi Rich, Sorry to harp on this again, but I’m sure you want to use your friend’s money as efficiently as possible, and if 120GB is enough for her right now, then why spend more. From the other posts I’m still not clear if a bigger-than-128GB HD will work at all, even when partitioned. The two

Re: Revisited: Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!

2010-07-29 Thread Richard Gerome
Hey Geke, This is a 466mhz and the Model# M5183 how this got like this is beyond me, (I figured it to be a 400, 450 or 500) it comes up when I click on About This Mac 466mhz and 896mb and right now running Jaguar 10.2.8 (I put Jaguar in it a few yrs ago) she only had OS 9.2.1... I have a