[G4] Prepping for the next OS X (10.5)

Eric Wood ewood at izoom.net
Thu Oct 25 19:01:41 PDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 17:44 +0000, nagable at comcast.net wrote:
> For what it's worth (and it's expensive), I upgraded my QS2002
> (800MHz) with a Sonnet Dual 1.8 GHz processor.  I had to boot into OS9
> to do the software (firmware?) install, but it gave the machine a
> super speed boost.  It's pricey ($600 from Other World Computing), but
> I like to keep things that still work.  Lately I lost a hard drive and
> added a SATA PCI card and 750GB SATA hard drive which I broke up into
> 4 partitions. It runs even faster now.  The RAM is maxed out at 1.5GB.
> I'm just wondering how much longer it will be supported by Apple...
>  
> I'm still using the stock video card.
>  
> Nate

It's bound to be forgotten by the next major Mac OS release. OS X seems
to be bloating up these days.

Eric




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