[zubro]

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??

[SMacTech]

With Panther, it will work great. My old 450 cube works very well with it. I use it instead of the P4 2.8ghz sitting under my desk at work.

[Back up 15 and punt]

I have a dual 450 and works just fine with 10.3.2.

[chrisford]

Hi -

I'm pleased with the performance on my dual 450. I've upped the ram to 1.2 gig and stuck a radeon (9600?) in it. The default video card was a little pokey.

Other than that, it's great. Not a huge difference (ime) to the 1gHz powerbook I use.

[CharlesS]

I've got a dual 450 here. Works just great. I've been lusting after a G5 for a long time, but I can't really justify the expense as X is running fine on my Mac. Compiling could be a little faster, but it's perfectly usable.

One thing to note is that OS X will actually perform better on a dualie than OS 9 in many ways, since it actually takes advantage of that second processor.

[Earth Mk. II]

I used a Dual 450 all the way from the Public Beta to Jag. (now I have a 12" AlBook).

It'll be fine. You won't have QuatrzExtreme with the stock vid card (the Rage 128Pro only supports textures that have dimensions 2^n in size), but everything will run nicely... especially with Panther, I suspect.

And even if an App you're running doesn't support SMP, the OS does, so it'll distribute the processes amongst your CPU's to keep things running nicely.

[zubro]

Thank you gus for posting!

The set up will obviously run OK.

[Andrew 8808]

I'm pretty content with Panther running on my dual 450. Although a new video card wouldn't hurt, I can't complain too much.