[MacDV] Re: I Wish I Had Known...

[illovox at comcast.net]

on 4/19/04 7:57 AM, Mark M. Florida at markf at squareblue.com wrote:

> On 4/18/04 9:01 PM, Scott Cottrell at spaceboy87 at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
>> I wish that I had been able to read these pearls of wisdom from illovox four
>> years ago...
>> 
>>>>> 1st gen B&W g3--suck
>>>>> 1st gen G4--suck
>>>>> 1st gen g5--why only one optical drive bay?  Sucks.  Newer cooler G5 chips
>>>>> should solve the problem.  Rest is cool.
>> 
>> Here I've been in love with my first gen G4 all this time, never even
>> realizing
>> that it sucked. I feel so naive...
> 
> I'd say the 1st gen. G4 sucks less than the last-gen. G4s, and they suck WAY
> less than the QuickSilver G4s (don't know about the G5 though), here's a
> short, quick G4 comparison:
> 
> 1st Gen G4 (AGP)     QuickSilver G4     MDD G4 (latest)
> processor
> upgradeable?      YES!                  YES!                NO!
> 
> memory slots    4 (2 GB max.)      3 (1.5 GB max.)      4 (2 GB max.)
> 
> analog audio 
> input             YES                    NO                 YES
> 
> So, for longevity value, the 1st gen. G4s win -- more memory slots,
> upgradeable processor (which rival performance of new G4s with equivalent
> clock speed), and analog audio inputs (for those quick and dirty audio
> captures you need to do, and for just more audio I/O flexibility).
> 
> 2 cents.

"11:00 AM EST
PowerLogix may become the first third-party hardware developer to release a
G5 upgrade for Apple's 'Mirror Drive Door' (MDD) Power Mac G4 models,
anonymous sources told AppleInsider on Monday. According to the source,
members of the company's research and development division have been
analyzing the details of such an engineering effort.

 Unlike traditional third-party upgrades, the PowerLogix G5 upgrade would
most likely consist of a combined motherboard and microprocessor adaptation,
sources said. If it were to deploy a stand-alone CPU upgrade card,
PowerLogix would be forced to research the processes of binding the PowerPC
G5 to an older 133MHz or 167MHz bus, only to be bottlenecked by its
limitations.

 PowerLogix confirmed that it is working on processor upgrades for the MDD,
but noted that G5 upgrades would be preceded by other workings at the
company. "I do know that G5 chips are still a way off, so I wouldn't assume
our first upgrades for these machines would be G5's," said Mark Robinson,
media spokesman at PowerLogix.

 In the meantime, the company is wrapping up the development of a series of
G4 upgrades for the MDD Power Macs, most of which will consist of dual
processor format, Robinson said. The upgrades are expected to begin shipping
sometime this Spring."

<http://www.appleinsider.com/news.php?id=267>