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Take that slow processor!
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SirCastor
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Aug 29, 2006, 08:36 PM
 
I just got my proc upgrade. Went from 400mhz to 1.5Ghz. Everything is better.

Slight frustration: I pulled the heatsink off my old machine, and one of the screwheads was stripped. I can only imagine the over-zealous mac assembler putting chips on motherboards and just going a little crazy. Fortuantely I had a screw driver that I could use to get it off.

Slight excitement: Apparently OWC is out of 1.4 Ghz chips, so they sent me a 1.5ghz. Sweet.
2008 iMac 3.06 Ghz, 2GB Memory, GeForce 8800, 500GB HD, SuperDrive
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Aug 30, 2006, 09:24 AM
 
I went from 400 to 1.2 and suddenly OS X made sense, way way better
     
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Aug 30, 2006, 09:37 AM
 
Originally Posted by SirCastor
Power Mac G4 1.5 (OWC Mercury Extreme) AGP/1152 RAM/Radeon 8500 (64MB)/120 GB/Pioneer DVR-109/Mac OS X 10.4.7
I've got almost the same rig (which my daughter has in her room at the moment).
PowerMac G4 Gigiabit Ethernet with a 1.4GHz OWC Mercury processor upgrade, 1152MB RAM, 64MB Radeon 8500 Pro, Pioneer DVR-107, 60GB HD, 17" Apple LCD Studio Display and MacOS X 10.4.7.
Handles OS X quite reasonably.
     
   
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