Re: Sawtooth to Sabretooth: The CPU upgrade question

2011-01-23 Thread dc
On Jan 23, 3:57 am, Sean Carroll cedarwaxw...@att.net wrote: Current system: Power Mac G4 AGP 450 MHz, 1.25 GB RAM, 160 GB 40 GB hard drives (PATA), Gigabit Ethernet PCI Card, Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 and Mac OS 9.2.2 I've found a great deal of useful information about Power Mac G4 AGP CPU

Fwd: Re: Sawtooth to Sabretooth: The CPU upgrade question

2011-01-23 Thread Jack Countryman
On 1/23/11 9:00 AM, dc wrote: On Jan 23, 3:57 am, Sean Carrollcedarwaxw...@att.net wrote: Current system: Power Mac G4 AGP 450 MHz, 1.25 GB RAM, 160 GB 40 GB hard drives (PATA), Gigabit Ethernet PCI Card, Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 and

Re: Mac Mini HDD speed

2011-01-23 Thread iJohn
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 3:36 PM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: If I use an external 3.5 7200 RPM via Firewire 400 will I gain speed over the internal HDD 4200 RPM in my Mac Mini? That's a hard one to guess at. But my guess would be no, I don't think you'd see a gain. Or if there was

Re: Sawtooth with ubuntu?

2011-01-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 22, 2011, at 11:25 PM, Dale Hoffman wrote: Here is a screen image of the installation panel where Flash is mentioned. It appears 2-3 panels into the install process: http://www.margnat.com/tech/Ubuntu/UbuntuInstallFlash.jpg Quote: Ubuntu uses third-party software to display

Screen Redraw Errors / Artifacts in Safari

2011-01-23 Thread Bill Connelly
I'm using the latest Safari under 10.5.8. A Geforce 4MX video card in my Digital Audio Dual 533. I've begun getting errors in the background of Top Sites. Screen isn't fully black, containing streaks and such. Is it my video card / old Sony G420 CRT monitor / Safari? Haven't seen it

Re: Sawtooth to Sabretooth: The CPU upgrade question

2011-01-23 Thread Sean Carroll
Personally I wouldn't think a processor upgrade, even a used one, would be worth it if you are getting a new Mac soon. Part of the return on the investment would be learning to perform a processor upgrade by doing it. A CPU upgrade would seem to go hand in hand with bringing the computer up to

Re: Sawtooth to Sabretooth: The CPU upgrade question

2011-01-23 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Sean Carroll cedarwaxw...@att.net wrote: Personally I wouldn't think a processor upgrade, even a used one, would be worth it if you are getting a new Mac soon. Part of the return on the investment would be learning to perform a processor upgrade by doing

Re: Is LogMeIn the answer?

2011-01-23 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/01/21 08:05, Jane, (Portland, OR) so eloquently wrote: On Jan 20, 1:34 pm, Tina K.penguir...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011/01/20 19:04, Jane, (Portland, OR) so eloquently wrote: I have heard of LogMeIn, but it looks like you have to pay for it. I don't know how well it works, either. Can

Re: Sawtooth to Sabretooth: The CPU upgrade question

2011-01-23 Thread Sean Carroll
Thank you, Adrian. Be sure to max the RAM. You are shopping the LEM swap list also I hope. Yes, I just added *some* RAM as a start. Funny, and so typical of me, is that there was a slight error in my calculations (though not a Crucial - pun intended - one). I installed 1 GB RAM total, 2

Re: Sawtooth with ubuntu?

2011-01-23 Thread t...@savingus.org
On 1/23/11 10:36 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 22, 2011, at 11:25 PM, Dale Hoffman wrote: Here is a screen image of the installation panel where Flash is mentioned. It appears 2-3 panels into the install process: http://www.margnat.com/tech/Ubuntu/UbuntuInstallFlash.jpg Quote: Ubuntu

Re: Sawtooth with ubuntu?

2011-01-23 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/01/23 16:27, t...@savingus.org so eloquently wrote: add-on for ubuntu, works with PPC - mythbuntu http://www.mythbuntu.org/ I wouldn't call it an add-on, more of a variant like Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc… Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB 10.4.11 PB G4

PowerMac G4 in B/W case?

2011-01-23 Thread Jeremiah Stevens
I really love the look of my PowerMac G3 B/Ws but sadly, they just are not useable anymore. As a fun project, I have two 400mhz G4s and a 700mhz G4 PowerMac that are in good working order. First off, how would the motherboards mount up? Secondly, would I need to swap Power Supplies or would the