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dpaanlka · Dec 14, 2005, 07:07 PM

I always read that the Mac OS "cannot recognize more than 1.5gb of ram" regarding the sawtooth.

Does this still apply today, even with Tiger?

Will a Sawtooth G4 with 4 x 512mb PC100 recognize all of it running Tiger?

Lateralus · Dec 14, 2005, 07:12 PM

It only applied to OS 9. Every release of X has been able to recognize 2GBs.

reader50 · Dec 14, 2005, 11:35 PM

My Sawtooth has been running 2GB for around a year now. Works fine under 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4. When OSX was first coming out, someone posted a get-info shot showing 2 GB in their Sawtooth. That was under either 10.0 or the Public Beta.

OS 9 can partially get around the 1.5 GB limit. You can, for example, declare a 256 MB RAM disk for scratch. That would be allocated from the otherwise-unavailable last 512 MB.

dpaanlka · Dec 15, 2005, 04:36 PM

thanks this is great to hear!

chris v · Dec 15, 2005, 05:29 PM

Yup, gotta love them Sawteeth. I bet they end up with the longest lifespan overall of any Mac, yet. Very upgradable machines. Mine's gonna be 6 in Feb.