[G4] Upgrading 733 MHz Quicksilver to Tiger

[John Baltutis]

On 08/13/07, Wayne Clodfelter <wayne at troutnc.com> wrote:
> John Baltutis wrote:
>> On 08/12/07, Techpriest <techpriest at ourlair.com> wrote:
>>> On Aug 12, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Kathi Anderson wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would like to upgrade to Tiger from Panther on my 733
>>>> Quicksilver. The 40 gig HD and 1.25 gigs of ram satisfy the Apple
>>>> upgrade specs, but I donÌt have built-in Airport.
>>> Just keep in mind the drive limits on these machines if you shop for
>>> a new drive. My G4 Digital Audio can only see 100gb, no matter how
>>> big the drive is.
>>
>> The limitation is 128 GB.
>> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86178> has the details.
>> Additionally, <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301341>
>>indicates
>> no Airport requirement, but does indicate a FireWire requirement.
>>
> Actually 137 GB. Wonder why nobody makes a drive that size <g>?

You must be a marketeer. Computers deal with base 2 stuff (128 GB), whereas
marketeers deal with base 10 stuff. See
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_drive#Capacity_measurements> for details.