[G4] Upgrading 733 MHz Quicksilver to Tiger

[Loren Smedberg]

I was sort of forced to up grade my QS 733 - Mac in tax finally needed to have 10.3 something & I was still running 9.2.2 - along with the original 10.1 that I never used. I went out & bought Tiger 10.4 , I then ordered a dvdr from Other World Computing  $45.00, Also an ATA 133 card (now the comp. recognizes large drives) also installed a 120 GB & 250 GB set of hard drives, So it now has 3 hard drives installed. Memory is maxed @ 1.5 GB. With new hard drives & Dvdr installed I then did a clean install of  Tiger on the 120 GB 7200 rpm with 8 mb cache , that speeded things up a bunch!  Since then I also added a USB 2 card. & a new processor - 1.467 Ghz. with 2 MB L3 Cache ($259.00 OWC), Then just switched out monitors & got a brand new View Sonic 22"monitor VX2255 from Costco a couple of days ago. They are $299.00 in store & they are a lot better than the model that they replaced - It's running @ 1680 X 1050 & seems a lot sharper than my old 17" Apple LCD that I bought back in 2001. I might add that it's running just fine with the stock 32 MB video card that came with the QS. I did all this with never a hickup from the trusty old QS. and with out an Airport Card. About the only upgrade I can do now is a new computer. 
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> From: techpriest at ourlair.com
> Subject: Re: [G4] Upgrading 733 MHz Quicksilver to Tiger
> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:29:19 -0500
> To: g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> 
> Just keep in mind the drive limits on these machines if you shop for  
> a new drive. My G4 Digital Audio can only see 100gb, no matter how  
> big the drive is.
> 
> As for 40 not being big enough, it really depends on what you want to  
> do.  I have 80 gig.  30gb is music, 20gig is pics and videos, I have  
> 12 gig free.   So Tiger and all my apps only take up 20gig.
> 
> On Aug 12, 2007, at 10:08 PM, Frank Sudore wrote:
> 
> > You don't need Airport. What you will need is a bigger HD. 40 is  
> > Way too small. Get at least an 80.
> > Tiger is on all of my machines at work form a 533 G-4 to an MacPro  
> > Intel Tower. Also up your ram if you can but I think 1.5 gigs is  
> > all you can put in a QS.
> >
> > On Aug 12, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Kathi Anderson wrote:
> >
> 
> 
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