[CUBE] Panther + G4 upgrades

[Rick Rodman]

The "processor upgrades" Apple is referring to is cards such as G3 
cards for older Macs, e.g. the G3 upgrade I had in my 8500.  Such cards 
change the processor type of the machine.  The reason for not 
supporting them is that they don't want to write "enablers" for old 
hardware (the rest of the computer).  When we put a faster G4 in our 
Cubes, we have not really changed the processor - it's just a faster 
G4.  Now if you found someone making a 970 board for the Cube (however 
that might or might not work), THAT would not be supported.

This language "processor upgrade cards are not supported" has been in 
every release of Mac OS since 10.0, and maybe earlier ones.  The 8500 I 
spoke of with the G3 card ran Mac OS 9 beautifully, but even if I'd 
been able to push the RAM up to 128MB, it wouldn't have run 10.0.  
Folks who have beige G3's have been able to run all the releases up to 
Jaguar, provided they can get enough RAM, but are being dropped with 
Panther - even tho some of these folks (and some blue&white owners) 
have been able to replace their ZIF CPU with a G4.  The blue & whites 
will still work, but the beiges won't.

There will come a day someday when the Cube won't run the latest 
version, but it's probably still a few years away.

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 08:42 AM, mentholiptus wrote:

> Has anyone out there in cube land been using processor upgrade cards 
> with panther builds?
>
> People seem to be spreading the word that upgrade cards won't run 
> panther, but I don't really believe that. I guess we'll see soon 
> enough though.
>
>
> jesse