[CUBE] Panther + G4 upgrades

[Marc Stergionis]

At about 3:39 PM -0400 on 10/14/03, Rick Rodman wrote:
>>>  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.
>>
>>It would if you used something like Ryan Rempel's free XPostFacto 
>>utility to install Jaguar. I've been running OS X (and now Jag) on 
>>an 8600/G4-400 for a couple of years, although I decided to use the 
>>installer utility from Sonnet Technology (not free) with my Sonnet 
>>upgrade card.
>
>That is really neat.  Makes me wish I still had the 8500.  It was a 
>reasonably compact machine with lots of expansion capability.  Your 
>8600 is even more compact - connect some fast SCSI drives, and it 
>could make a very nice server.

Yeah, what's even neater is that I threw in an ATA-133 card and then 
added the stock 20G drive I took out of the Cube when the Cube got 
the 80G Barracuda. The 8600 also now has an internal ATA CD-RW, plus 
FireWire, USB and Radeon 7000. Can't think of much more! Somehow it 
seems faster than the G4-400 Sawtooth I have at work, but it could be 
just favoritism :)

-ms
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