[G4] clearer identification

[Richard Ramsowr]

Chris

First off you've got yourself a ok Mac for starters.
Now go to something called evermac.com and look it up.
This will help you to understand the pecking order of
all of the G4. 

The order runs something like this - your Power Mac G4
AGP family of Mac's, next came the the Power Mac G4
Gigabit / Ethernet & Digital Audio (DA) family of
Mac's, followed by the Power Ma G4 QuickSilver (their
were two of them [that's where I'm at], then came the
power mac G4 Mirrored Door Drives (MDD) / Firewire
models to end the series. Then the G5's

Next visit a site called "Accelerate Your Mac" at
www.Xlr8yourmac.com to find out what to do. For starts
max out your memory, then upgrade your hard drives
followed by your storage drive (CD to Superdrive).
Then look to Accelerating your CPU.

Or look to upgrading to a Mac higher up the food chain
- the closer you are to a late model DA, Quicksilver
(QS) or MDD the better off you are in the long run -
the three all ran a bus speed of 133 MHz. In the end
it's all about bus speed when it come to software
upgrades and running the latest OS X without a lot of
third-party fixes.

After all of that - ask before you do - cause their is
still lots of life left in your MAC if you just take
the time to find it - i.e the latest security upgrade
just product a speed bump for my Quicksilver as a
byproduct to the upgrade.

The other day someone put it best when they wrote...

Every new release of Mac OS X from version 10.1 to
10.2 to 10.3 to 10.4 actually added new features while
making their ancient G3 iBook faster at the same time.
With Mac OS X, it's a no-brainer to upgrade the
operating system since you speed up an old computer
while getting new features at the same time,"

The guy was writing about M$ Windows Vista - the want
to be Mac.

So see your in good company

Welcome aboard and keep us all up to date on your
progress with your MAC - it's going to be a fun ride!

Rick
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--- Chris <krispy_39 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone. I am having numerous issues with my
> computer and since I found you all, I have decided
> this is a real good time to begin really knowing
> what I have. So I will start at the beginning. I
> have a Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics) 350 MHz 896MB
> with only a 30 GB harddrive. My first question is
> "What have I got?" I mean to say "what is my machine
> referred to as?" I will begin here. Thanks to any
> and all and I enjoy reading about stuff I really
> don't know but I hope to someday soon!
> 
> 
> cplichtenstein
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