[G4] Gigabit Ethernet & memory

[Eric Wood]

Hi Dan,

My only thought is that you were upgrading G3s, which of course lack
Altivec, and I know that OS X makes heavy use of it to speed things up.

Eric

On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 22:48 -0400, Daniel Tellier wrote:
> Earlier this spring I purchased a gigabit ethernet, G4, 400 MHz, 20 Gb 
> HD.  It does, indeed, have 4 ram slots.  Mine came with OSX 10.3 
> Panther.  I installed 4, 512Mb memory modules and the ASP recognized 2 
> Gb of ram and it runs lots faster than it did with Panther and only 384 
> Mb of ram.  Although I own a family pack of Tiger, I'm leaving the 
> Gigabit ethernet with Panther because of the following experience.
> 
> I also have two G3 iBooks, a 700 Mhz, with an 80Gb HD, and an 800 Mhz, 
> with a 30 Gb HD, both with 640Mb RAM.  I upgraded the 700Mhz to OSX 
> 10.4 Tiger and its performance slowed considerably.  If I remember 
> correctly, Tiger is a significantly larger system than Jaguar or 
> Panther and seems to slow the older, slower systems down.  (More memory 
> might alleviate this problem, but that is not an option with these 
> iBooks - they are both maxed on RAM).  I'm planning to move it back to 
> Panther because of this.   That is, of course, unless some to the guys 
> with more experience than me tell me I'm wrong and what I did to slow 
> down my iBook besides upgrading to Tiger.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Dan
> 
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