On 1/27/2010 10:22 PM, tortoise wrote:
If you find the upgrade really cheap (and I mean<$100 cheap), go for
it, but I wouldn't put a lot of money into the system.
Depends on how much you like old macs IMHO.
Probably quite true (grin). This G4 Sawtooth hasn't given me any
headaches wo
On Jan 23, 12:14 pm, Bruce Johnson
wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2010, at 12:05 PM, A.McCullough wrote:
>
> > Still learning the ins and outs of this series of Macs ... what
> > basic options would I be looking at? I've read that some upgrade
> > CPUS would need firmware upgrades also - how fast could
-- Original message --
Subject: Re: Thinking about a new CPU for a Sawtooth 500 MHz G4
Date:Montag 25 Januar 2010N
From:Dana Collins
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
> On 1/25/10 12:48 AM, Kris Tilford of ktilfo...@cox.net sent
>
> > On Jan 24, 2010,
On Jan 24, 2010, at 10:21 PM, Dana Collins wrote:
Saying that I have to include that the very same Quicksilver didn't
take an
identical DIMM -- it just ignored it and showed the memory bank as
being empty
-- while the other DIMM was recognized normally. That was PC133 RAM
by the way
and th
On 1/25/10 12:48 AM, Kris Tilford of ktilfo...@cox.net sent
> On Jan 24, 2010, at 11:21 PM, Dana Collins wrote:
>
>> If you have used PC-100 in a unit designed for faster RAM, I would
>> say that
>> is an anomaly, or you have the darned luckiest Mac on the planet!
>
> I've noticed that someti
On Jan 24, 2010, at 11:21 PM, Dana Collins wrote:
If you have used PC-100 in a unit designed for faster RAM, I would
say that
is an anomaly, or you have the darned luckiest Mac on the planet!
I've noticed that sometimes RAM sold as slower RAM is actually a
faster variety. You need to inspe
On 1/24/10 1:45 AM, Mac User #330250 of macuser330...@gmx.net sent
> -- Original message --
> Subject: Re: Thinking about a new CPU for a Sawtooth 500 MHz G4
> Date:Sonntag 24 Januar 2010N
> From:Dana Collins
> To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
>
-- Original message --
Subject: Re: Thinking about a new CPU for a Sawtooth 500 MHz G4
Date:Sonntag 24 Januar 2010N
From:Dana Collins
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
> On 1/23/10 4:03 PM, Mac User #330250 of macuser330...@gmx.net sent
>
> > Please corre
On 1/23/2010 8:03 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
Yes, this does work differently in a Mac. Windows installs a custom
system for each computer, and generally it can't be moved from one
computer to another unless the two computers are physically identical.
Macs install a unitary system that normally is
On Jan 23, 2010, at 6:47 PM, A.McCullough wrote:
Okay, this brings up another question... let's say I did that: would
the HD from my current Sawtooth (with all the apps that came with
it, many of which do not have any physical media for reinstalling)
work as-is in a faster QS? In a Windows
On Jan 23, 2010, at 4:47 PM, A.McCullough wrote:
On 1/23/2010 4:03 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote:
If you want to reuse parts like memory, you're much better off
with the Dual-1
GHz Quicksilver, or even a Dual-800 (like mine!). Beware that the
Quicksilver
2002 is the first to support large hard
On 1/23/2010 4:03 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote:
If you want to reuse parts like memory, you're much better off with the Dual-1
GHz Quicksilver, or even a Dual-800 (like mine!). Beware that the Quicksilver
2002 is the first to support large hard drives> 128 GB (system board Rev. B).
Full ACK.
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On 1/23/10 4:03 PM, Mac User #330250 of macuser330...@gmx.net sent
> Full ACK. Consider the QS option for you (buying a used one for around 100
> Dollars with no HDDs and no RAM makes your upgrade easy -- you'd just go for
> the CPU speed).
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the Q
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