On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 07:23 AM, J.S. Garrison wrote:
Sadly, even tho' there's a 68040/40 CPU in this Mac, it KNOWS it's still a
68020 Mac. O.T. won't work.
All Apple's apps for 68ks install stuff depending on the Gestalt ID. You can get programs to jury rig that so stuff for newer machines will install on older ones with upgrades.
I.E. 3.01 needs more than the meager 10 megs. of RAM it has at it's disposal.
I.E. has always been a bloat-ware. It doesn't run badly on my 840av but then that has 128MB RAM...
I suppose this Speedster is REALLY just designed to provide quicker access to
often used applications. NOT for Internet Access. <sigh>.
Some 68k upgrade cards had RAM sockets on them for extra memory. Sadly not this one it seems, and neither does the Daystar one someone pointed out on here a while back.
It actually got a little weird on me while using it. It was when I discovered
there was no fan in the box! My Bad? I moved the 13 inch monitor off the top,
checked the CPU with my hand, and discovered it was super-hot. THAT'S why it
froze when loading the Mobius control panel! Duh....
Yeh. The 040/40 does get REALLY hot. I have a 33MHz in my IIci and a 40 MHz in my 840av and both are heat-sinked. Not having a fan would be a killer in that case too it's very badly vented.
This is an interesting Accelerator. Not as much fun as those which fit into
the IIci's and such, but it DOES provide a quicker LC than the stock box.
The LC is always gonna be heeled by it's bad bus and low RAM ceiling. You'd be better off buying an LC475 board for $5 and putting that in, but then I dunno if they fit in the LC case...
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