[G4] Sawtooth, 9-X heap big trouble, part 2

[Brad Larrabee]

Robert, 
Where'd you get these upgrades?  

brad


On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:01:56 -0500, Robert Hazelrigg
<robzilla at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I recently upgraded my Sawtooth 400 APG. I added a Gig of Ram ($160)
> (total RAM now 1.2), put in a Superdrive ($140), and upgraded the
> processor with a sonnet 1.2 Ghz G4 ($260).  Total upgrade cost me about
> $575.
> 
> I opted for an upgrade for a number of reasons. The first reason was
> money. By upgrading in stages I could enhance my performance a bit at a
> time without wiping out my wallet. Second: I already have 2 monitors
> and 2 - 120 Gig hard drives installed. SO for me it was silly to get a
> Mac Mini. The Mini just doesn't have what I need for my work. I need to
> run 2 monitors and I always run an extra hard drive for backup
> protection. For me to buy the Mini with the extra RAM and external hard
> drive. wasn't worth it. It just would have cost me about a couple of
> hundred more for a small increase in performance.
> 
> All-in-all I'm very happy with my decision. I used Xbench to benchmark
> the performance of the APG upgrades verse my new iBook 1.25 Ghz with
> 768MB of RAM, and I'm happy to say the score of the Upgraded APG won
> hands down.
> 
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