[geeks] Anyone know of good sources of 5V DIMMs?

[Mike Hebel]

Thus spake Aaron Finley:

> On 6/18/06, nate at portents.com <nate at portents.com> wrote:
>> > How old? In order to run OS X 10.2 or later, you need to have a G3
>> > processor.
>>
>> 7300/7600 class machines upgraded with G3 processors from 250Mhz to
>> 500Mhz.  Video cards will be Radeon 7000 32MB PCI, and hard drives are
>> going to be new 9GB low profile SCSI drives.
>
> Just my two cents here, but:
>
> OS 10.3 was dog slow on my 450mhz G4 Cube w/ 512mb of RAM. Alot of
> sitting around waiting for the computer to do anything. OS 9 was
> wonderfully zippy and responsive.

I've found that this is due to RAM mor often than not.  Put 1gig of RAM in
the machine and it lightens the load considerably.

> Putting 10.3 on upgraded PowerMacs with G3s is going to be so slow it
> will be almost unusable for anything. Why not just run OS 9?

No offense Aaron but I use my G3 400 Pismo with 10.3.9 and I find it quite
usable - even with only 512M of RAM.  About the only thing that is a bit
laggy is Neoffice and that's only when it first starts.

There's no doubt that OS 9 will be much faster on that same configuration
but it all depends on what you want to do with the machine in question.

Mike Hebel
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