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bbales · Oct 23, 2003, 09:04 AM

OK, I've been searching for this answer for quite some time. How do you know if you have a Sawtooth or a G4 gigabit ethernet machine? I can find no reference to ethernet on the system profile (about this Mac). I know my machine has AGP graphics, but what about the ethernet?

Just wondering...

AssassyN · Oct 23, 2003, 10:43 AM

Check out www.apple-history.com

And Gigabit Ethernet is absolutely useless unless your on a Gigabit hub with every other machine on the hub having gigabit ethernet as well.

bbales · Oct 23, 2003, 11:09 AM

AssassYn -- thanks for the help! I've bookmarked this page for future reference. It'st still impossible to tell (from my system profile, at least, the ethernet data. I only want to know b/c I'm considering upgrading the processor, and need to know precisely what model mine is -- i'm going back and forth between the AGP graphics, which mine has, and the gigabit ethernet model. Looking at the history, though, mine has got to be the second. I do remember buying it in November and then, in January, finding out I could have had built-in CD rom, etc.

That's why, this year, I waited until AFTER the keynote address! Learned my lesson.

coolmacdude · Oct 23, 2003, 01:25 PM

Type this into the Terminal.

ifconfig -m en0
(thats a zero)

If you see 1000BaseTX anywhere in the output, you have gigabit eth. If the max you see is 100BaseTX, you don't.

GORDYmac · Oct 23, 2003, 01:35 PM

Gigabit ethernet became standard the same time the G4 Cube came out. So, if the G4 was manufactured on or after July of 2000 then it has gigabit ethernet.

aapljack · Oct 23, 2003, 01:55 PM

Another great source of information for old and new Apple products in a application called Mactracker. It has just about any information you could ever want to know. Nice little app.

-b

bbales · Oct 23, 2003, 02:11 PM

Thanks all -- I had found this a really perplexing question, with no solution, until today. I also dug out all my old documentation and -- once I knew what I was looking for -- found the answer. But I needed all your help first.

Thanks again. As I said, I'm considering upgrading the processor to 800 MZ, and kind of needed to know exactly what I had first. (Though, I think the upgrade card is the same for both the sawtooth and the gigabit ethernet.)

PowerMatt · Oct 23, 2003, 03:20 PM

Originally posted by AssassyN:
Check out www.apple-history.com

And Gigabit Ethernet is absolutely useless unless your on a Gigabit hub with every other machine on the hub having gigabit ethernet as well.

Or if you need to mass dump your 250GB HD to another machine via XOver Cable. When you need to transfer large amounts of files quickly, it is very easy to just patch the computers together with a XOver.

firefly · Oct 23, 2003, 04:51 PM

I think the easiest way to tell if you have a Gigabit G4 is if the power button has a white light - I think the Sawthooths had just a green/orange one.

bbales · Oct 23, 2003, 05:37 PM

Originally posted by firefly:
I think the easiest way to tell if you have a Gigabit G4 is if the power button has a white light - I think the Sawthooths had just a green/orange one.

Now THAT would have been an easy way to tell! TOo bad I didn't know sooner...