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how goes dual 450 + OSX???
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Europe
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Hi all,
I will lend a dual G4 450 from a friend for some altivec needed stuff with cleaner..
How does the dual work with osX??
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Union County, NJ
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Slow. Fine, but slow.
Mike
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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Slow, but only if you still have the stock video card in it. I own a dual 450 and once I replaced the old Rage 128 with a Radeon, I immediately saw a huge improvement. You also need plenty of RAM, at least 512 MB.
I find it plenty fast. In fact, it feels faster than my 800 MHz iBook G3 did.
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"That's Mama Luigi to you, Mario!" *wheeze*
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Madison
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It isn't terribly slow. I would compare it to a 500Mhz PC running XP. The dual450 feels faster than my Ghz Powerbook.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Berkeley, CA
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I'm running a single 450 (sawtooth) at home... 1.5 gigs RAM, GeForce4MX, two big 7200 rpm drives, Panther... and while I can tell it's not the snappiest thing on the planet, it's perfectly usable.
The time line in GarageBand tends to lag behind the sound output, and I get the spinning rainbow sometimes when I switch between big programs with billions of windows open (e.g., GarageBand -> Photoshop with 10 photos open), but other than that I can't really complain.
Since Panther came out, it feels just about as fast as my identical (minus the GeForce4MX) OS 9 machine at work.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Europe
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cool! Thanks!
So I might give some VRAM to OSX and it will run just fine as it has 600+ Megs of RAM.
Thanks again for posting!
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Portland, OR
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I remember when I ran 10.1 on a Dual 450...
I thought it was the fastest thing in the world...
Of course that was about 2 years ago.
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