[CUBE] Cube upgrades vs. new Powermac

[Sébastien Maury]

you certainly won't have a machine as speedy as the new eMac: 100MHz 
vs. 167MHz system bus, DIMM PC!)) vs. DDR, GeForce2 vs. radeon 9200... 
Cube is a wonderful computer but... old. Of course, on the eMac you 
also have the display, USB 2.0, superdrive option :-)

seb

On 19 avr. 04, at 20:05, Michael Swale wrote:

> I'll be upgrading my Cube this week, I'll try some bench marks to my 
> other
> Mac's 17in 1ghz Powerbook, and 1.25ghz Power Mac.
>
> The total cost so far is less then the new eMac and should be faster.
>
> When I'm done....
> 1.4ghz G4   $500
> 1.5gig ram (already have)  $200ish?
> 80gig WD 7500 RPM drive with 8mb cache $150
> G-force 2 32mb video (stock card)  $0
>
> Mike
>
>
>> Hi Cubists.
>>
>> I started thinking the unthinkable. I might sell my cube. I'm itching
>> for expandability (more hard drive space and less external devices).
>>
>> But I'm still thinking in the corner of my mind about upgrading my
>> stock 500Mhz cube. I really can't afford a DP G5 right now, so I was
>> looking at the DP 1.25 G4 towers. I'm sure my cube would feel like a
>> new machine with a 1.2  upgrade, new hard drive, and maxed out RAM.
>>
>> But is it worth it?
>>
>> Has anyone had consistent success with the hack to allow bigger hard
>> drives in their cubes?
>>
>> Any thoughts would be appreciated. I'm always willing to look at the
>> cheaper route and/or the most bang for my buck.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chip
>>
>>
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