[G4] Sawtooth 450 upgrade

[Roger Harris]

The "Windtunnal" macs are the MDD towers.

My MDD 867 was very noisy, not just loud but made bad grinding and 
chatter-like noises. Since I replaced the power supply and main fan with 
the replacements Apple sent, the noise is not any greater than any other 
G4 towers I have had or worked on.

Although I will probably get a G5 next year, I would not hesitate to buy 
a new MDD. These are great Macs, now that the noise fix is in. Some of 
the very good prices on the new and used of these MDD towers make them 
very attractive. I love having two internal optical drives and four HDs 
in one box. These are fast ATA buses on the MDD, not the pokey drive 
buses on all of Apples earlier towers.

I work on both the Quicksilver and MDD towers and I much prefer the MDD.

Roger

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Anthony Howells wrote:

>Hi there
>I want to move up from my 450 sawtooth. What were the first models which had
>the noisy fan or power supply issues? I want to get as fast as I can without
>meeting these issues.
>Thanks
>Anthony
>
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