[G4] Gigabit Ethernet & memory

Daniel Tellier cdt at globaldsl.net
Mon Sep 3 11:18:44 PDT 2007


Did you see my ears perk up when I read this?!  Please point me in the 
right direction.  I can't find anything online.  I'm getting quite 
adventuresome with the iBooks (changing hard drives, cover reed 
switches, etc.) and that much memory sounds like it might be worth 
exploring.

Dan


On Monday, September 3, 2007, at 01:27  PM, nagable at comcast.net wrote:

> It is possible to upgrade the "hidden" memory module to 512MB, but 
> it's not a project for the faint of heart.
>
> Nate
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Daniel Tellier <cdt at globaldsl.net>
>> No, I haven't.  I'll look into it, though, and consider the
>> possibilities before I go back to Panther.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> On Monday, September 3, 2007, at 12:37  AM, Techpriest wrote:
>>
>>> Have you "tuned" OSX 4 to run better on the G3s?  I found turning off
>>> many of the bells and whistles helped.
>>>
>>> Here is a good article with some tips to get all versions of OSX to
>>> run better on slower machines.
>>>
>>> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020221092653868
>>>
>>> On Sep 2, 2007, at 9:48 PM, Daniel Tellier wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
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