Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

I have a suggestion. I also have a power Macintosh G4 sawtooth, and i got all of my upgrades from www.otherworldcomputing.com . They make RAM even for the macintosh quadra series from 1993-1995. Trust me, it's worth the upgrade. For only $30 per 512MB PC100 SDRAM module, my computer is one happy ca

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

Thanks for the reply,I actually "tried for free" the Intech's solution,but I think I'll try the other methods too.. The newwer HDD made a lot of difference,if it was an 3.5' 7200rpm it would be even faster..but I had this 2.5 5400rpm laying around from my macbook 6.1.. When I have a little more mon

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

Thanks for the reply Eric. As said above,I didn't upgraded the CPU and don't plan to do it... Now,even with a 17' CRT I know that the crappy ati 16mb is "the bottleneck",so guess I'll spend 20eur in a pc 9700pro and flash it to mac.. > > For a while I was using a 9700 Pro (in a dual G5) to drive a

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

It has 128mb,it supports the resolution..the max for it is: 2048x1536 @60Hz On Mar 21, 1:26 pm, Dennis Myhand wrote: > I don't know if the screen resolution is going to slow down your > browsing.  The question is, can your video card handle the resolution of > the screen with the amount of

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

On Mar 21, 2010, at 7:49 AM, skinnie wrote: Sorry to just post now,I've been out of time. Let's say I "tried for free" the Intech's SOlution to install osx 10.4 in the HD and try it,and man,that is a freakin difference of speed! If I had a 7200rpm drive that would be even more amazing... When I

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

I don't know if the screen resolution is going to slow down your browsing. The question is, can your video card handle the resolution of the screen with the amount of video ram the card has? How much video ram does the card have and what resolutions are supported? skinnie wrote: Sorry to ju

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

Sorry to just post now,I've been out of time. Let's say I "tried for free" the Intech's SOlution to install osx 10.4 in the HD and try it,and man,that is a freakin difference of speed! If I had a 7200rpm drive that would be even more amazing... When I go back home,I'll do the firmware hack or use t

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

I could not find it anywhere. What I found called Overdrive was for USB drives so I went ahead and did the firmware hack. Works fine from what I can tell. A 320 Gig drives that I can see 312 gigs of. Sounds like the normal amount of false advertising. roman...@ideal-access.com wrote: "An

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

"Another solution is the freeware Overdrive " Is it just me? 9 out of 10 times Version Tracker download links return a "Not Found" page. It's gotten to the point that, when I google I avoid Version Tracker results altogether. -

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

skinnie wrote: Where can I find info about the hack?I've searched already but didn't found it... I am trying to make this machine really "lowend" on money,because: 1)I'll only use it on weekends 2)I am student and don't have much money. Here is the message. I could not find Overdrive so I did

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

Look for Large HDD in a Sawtooth. I think that was the subject I used when asking. skinnie wrote: Where can I find info about the hack?I've searched already but didn't found it... I am trying to make this machine really "lowend" on money,because: 1)I'll only use it on weekends 2)I am student a

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

You can look through the achieves of this list. It has been posted here withing the last two months. I know because I used it. I just don't remember what I did because there has been a lot happening in my life the last two weeks! Peace, Dennis skinnie wrote: Where can I find info about th

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

Where can I find info about the hack?I've searched already but didn't found it... I am trying to make this machine really "lowend" on money,because: 1)I'll only use it on weekends 2)I am student and don't have much money. I already thought about sata pci cards,but the money that I have to pay for

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

On Mar 7, 1:09 pm, skinnie wrote: > Hi Guys,I received an G4 400MHz AGP Sawtooth with the following specs: > > Ram: 512Mb+3x256Mb=1.25Gb > HDD:40Gb Seagate IDE 7200Rpm > Graphic Card: ATI 16Mb > > Currently it is running tiger,but I think it is a little slow One of the best and cheapest processor

RE: Upgrading a Sawtooth

> > If you mean a SATA drive attached to the Sawtooth via a SATA to IDE > adapter, no. Without one of the two fixes, a stock Sawtooth canNOT see > past the first 128Gb of a drive. Not a parition, the entire drive. > > > -- > Clark Martin Unless you do the firmware hack to get around the

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

On 3/8/10 2:02 PM, skinnie wrote: oh and about the macbook's 250Gb 5400rpm HDD,wouldn't it be detected if I partition it into partitions with less than 128Gb?!? I thin it would be a lot faster than that 7200RPm hdd that I have,mainly because it has more cache,and it is a much newer techoh an

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:50 PM, skinnie wrote: > > 5)About pc flashed cards,what problems have you got?I've read in the > mac elite wiki,and there are lots of "confirmed" working 9700 reduced > roms and 9800... > My 9700 Pro worked fine for about 1-1/2 years, then I started having problems with

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

On Mar 8, 2010, at 4:50 PM, skinnie wrote: Thanks all of you for the suggestions,but I'll try to make some things clear :) snip 2) When I say it's slow,I don't mean it's horribly slow,but I know this time it is a little slower than my ibook g3 800mhz,640mb ram,40gb hdd was! I think maybe du

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

oh and about the macbook's 250Gb 5400rpm HDD,wouldn't it be detected if I partition it into partitions with less than 128Gb?!? I thin it would be a lot faster than that 7200RPm hdd that I have,mainly because it has more cache,and it is a much newer techoh and new! -- You received this messag

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

Thanks all of you for the suggestions,but I'll try to make some things clear :) 1) This Mac is only used in the weekend to surf on the web,when I return home. 2) When I say it's slow,I don't mean it's horribly slow,but I know this time it is a little slower than my ibook g3 800mhz,640mb ram,40gb

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

In a message dated 3/8/10 7:35:09 AM, lgers...@gmail.com writes: > > On Mar 8, 2010, at 9:51 AM, ah...clem wrote: > > > > > On Mar 7, 4:45 pm, John Carmonne wrote: > >> > >>  I think the 533 processor at $20.00 is a pretty good upgrade if  > >> it will produce a 33% improvement in speed. I ag

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

On Mar 8, 2010, at 9:51 AM, ah...clem wrote: On Mar 7, 4:45 pm, John Carmonne wrote: I think the 533 processor at $20.00 is a pretty good upgrade if it will produce a 33% improvement in speed. I agree that 1.25 GB of RAM is a good amount for most stuff. I use a lot of RAM on my CAD/C

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

john keeps pushing his idea of a processor upgrade. makes me wonder if he's the one trying to sell the 533. ;o) but again i would add that it depends on WHAT you are using the sawtooth for. first, as in all d=rt problems, increasing the speed by a factor of 4/3 equates to decreasing the time by

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

> > Because the data density is higher. For every inch the head travels on the > 250g drive, it has the potential to pick up to six times more data as the > same inch on the 40g drive. Plus the 250g almost certainly has a larger > on-board cache, and probably higher seek times as well. > > Eric >

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

On Mar 7, 2010, at 1:29 PM, ah...clem wrote: > On Mar 7, 1:09 pm, skinnie wrote: > >> Currently it is running tiger,but I think it is a little slow (I think >> it is the HDD fault).. > > WHAT is slow? the OS seems slow to you, like launching apps? or some > particular application? are you u

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

On Mar 7, 1:09 pm, skinnie wrote: > Currently it is running tiger,but I think it is a little slow (I think > it is the HDD fault).. WHAT is slow? the OS seems slow to you, like launching apps? or some particular application? are you using it for gaming? video editing? > I am planing to upgr

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

On Mar 7, 2010, at 11:09 AM, skinnie wrote: Hi Guys,I received an G4 400MHz AGP Sawtooth with the following specs: Ram: 512Mb+3x256Mb=1.25Gb HDD:40Gb Seagate IDE 7200Rpm Graphic Card: ATI 16Mb Currently it is running tiger,but I think it is a little slow (I think it is the HDD fault).. NO i

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Richard Gerome wrote: > >How would the 250g 5400rpm HD be faster then a 40g 7200rpm HD??? The > space size being bigger??? I've been told going from 5400 to 7200 would > increase the performance speed... > > > Because the data density is higher. For every inch t

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

: Mar 7, 2010 1:28 PM To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:09 PM, skinnie wrote: Hi Guys,I received an G4 400MHz AGP Sawtooth with the following specs: Ram: 512Mb+3x256Mb=1.25Gb HDD:40Gb Seagate IDE 7200Rpm Graphic Card: ATI 16Mb Currently

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

t: Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:09 PM, skinnie <andre.fa...@ua.pt> wrote: Hi Guys,I received an G4 400MHz AGP Sawtooth with the following specs: Ram: 512Mb+3x256Mb=1.25Gb HDD:40Gb Seagate IDE 7200Rpm Graphic Card: ATI 16Mb Currently it is running tiger,but I think it is a lit

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:09 PM, skinnie wrote: > Hi Guys,I received an G4 400MHz AGP Sawtooth with the following specs: > > Ram: 512Mb+3x256Mb=1.25Gb > HDD:40Gb Seagate IDE 7200Rpm > Graphic Card: ATI 16Mb > > Currently it is running tiger,but I think it is a little slow (I think > it is the HDD

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

On Mar 7, 2010, at 10:09 AM, skinnie wrote: > Hi Guys,I received an G4 400MHz AGP Sawtooth with the following specs: > > Ram: 512Mb+3x256Mb=1.25Gb > HDD:40Gb Seagate IDE 7200Rpm > Graphic Card: ATI 16Mb > > Currently it is running tiger,but I think it is a little slow (I think > it is the HDD f

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

On Mar 7, 2010, at 10:09 AM, skinnie wrote: > Hi Guys,I received an G4 400MHz AGP Sawtooth with the following specs: > > Ram: 512Mb+3x256Mb=1.25Gb > HDD:40Gb Seagate IDE 7200Rpm > Graphic Card: ATI 16Mb > > Currently it is running tiger,but I think it is a little slow (I think > it is the HDD f

Upgrading a Sawtooth

Hi Guys,I received an G4 400MHz AGP Sawtooth with the following specs: Ram: 512Mb+3x256Mb=1.25Gb HDD:40Gb Seagate IDE 7200Rpm Graphic Card: ATI 16Mb Currently it is running tiger,but I think it is a little slow (I think it is the HDD fault).. I am planing to upgrade the HDD to my 250Gb 5400rpm "m