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WOOHOO I got my Sonnet G4 500mhz CPU upgrade!
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A friend dropped it off tonight, now I have to wait until Saturday afternoon for another friend to install it. I don't feel comfortable installing period. Better safe then sorry.
My friend who is installing is asking me to sign a waiver or else he won't do it. Hopefully this will keep me sane until I get a Dual 3GHZ G5 next summer.
Mac OS X it good and no so good on this Mac. the bad some apps are instanely slow at loading files, and dialogue boxes slow at loading as well. Hopefully this will allow me to work for the next year, and keep sane. Now I can iChat AV audio chat and still be working - where as now I can only audio chat and do nothing else (100% CPU).This is the last thing I can do to upgrade this Mac. The CPU was FREE from this job I am doing due to not being able to do the Dual 2.5GHZ upgrade in January so hence a CPU upgrade.
(Last edited by Mac Write; Aug 29, 2003 at 04:17 AM.
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Congrats! Welcome to 1999.
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Originally posted by Eriamjh:
Congrats! Welcome to 1999.
Heh LOL.
Hope the upgrade cooperates for you, for OS X.
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Originally posted by Eriamjh:
Congrats! Welcome to 1999.
LOL. I'm happy for the guy, but when a lot of us are talking about a dual 2.0ghz G5, it's hard to share the excitement for a fellow forum goer who upgraded to a 500mhz G4 
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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OSX with a G3/266 sounds painful... well the good news is that you've already upgraded everything else, so the G4 upgrade will be completely at home. I'm also still using a G4 upgraded beige... for now 
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I think it's very cool and hope you enjoy it. I have a friend who is running 10.2 on a 500 MHz G4, and it's fine. In fact, I'm running it on a 7600 with a 500 MHz G4, and it does just as nicely.
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Vancouver B.C.
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Thanks
OS X does run well on this machine, esp after going from 416MB to 768MB of RAM. I push this Mac very hard, and it does run well, I don't care about app loading time, what I do care about is the small things, Dialogue boxes taking 4-5 seconds to open, pages in Dreamweave taking 20+ seconds to load, sometimes slow video drawing in PS (even with a Radeon ME), I could have waited (and was planning to) wait until Jan-March for the DP 2.5GHZ, but now that that isn't happening I can't wait until next summer for that fully loaded Dual 3GHZ G5. I could get it sonner if you guys want top by the bands CD that I work for. if they sell alot of CD's then I get a Mac sonner.
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: London, Ontario
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Originally posted by AC Rempt
I have a friend who is running 10.2 on a 500 MHz G4, and it's fine. In fact, I'm running it on a 7600 with a 500 MHz G4, and it does just as nicely.
One of my two Macs is a 7600 upgraded to a 200mhz 604. Although I use it only lightly, it runs OSX reasonably well!!
My main Mac right now is a 700mhz iBook (traded in a dual 867 to get the iBook, lots a change left over, and the Dual was unbearably noisy).
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