[geeks] scsi notebook drives

Peter L. Wargo pwargo at basenji.com
Wed Jun 5 10:38:24 CDT 2002


On Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at 07:00 , Kurt Huhn wrote:

> I found it, downloaded, and archived it for when I can afford the
> upgrade.  Now, the question is: are there glaring differences in upgrade
> modules of similar speed/cache?  I'm thinking a G4 with Altivec might be
> a good investment as long as XPostFacto supports it (dunno why it
> wouldn't) - or am I thinking like Tim Allen (arr arr arr)?  Would a G3
> for 20% less be just as good?

XPostFacto doesn't care, I think it'll even let you boot with a PPC 
604.  If you have the scratch, go for the G4 - the OS is optimized for 
it, and some software (like iTunes) really likes it.

-Pete



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