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ibook G4
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Upgrading an Apple Power Mac Sawtooth G4 500 mhz

Upgrading an Apple Power Mac Sawtooth G4 500 mhz

Well if you read my Gigabit Ethernet article, you'll be surprised to find out that I actually received a Sawtooth G4 500 mhz instead of a dual processor Gigabit Ethernet machine. I was a little hacked off but worked it out with the seller through a hefty refund. I am now the owner of a G4 Sawtooth for $15.99 total. Oh well, I'll see if I can make it work. I'm basically upgrading it for a friend to use. He's never used a mac before and it's time to switch from peecee.

I thought I had some memory that would work on this machine but I was wrong. That's too bad because I had four 256 meg sticks which would have made a nice even 1 gig of ram - plenty to run Tiger with. I ended up finding two 512 meg sticks through ramseeker.com for a little less than $23 a stick. Not a bad upgrade.

Upgrading an Apple Power Mac Sawtooth G4 500 mhz

In trying to get the old ram to work with the machine, I noticed that memory can make a big difference in how fast a machine runs. With just 128 and 192 megs of ram, Tiger was dirt slow. When I put the entire 448 megs of ram that came with the machine, it was much more useable. I'm sure there's a point of diminishing returns but I'll be interested to see how it runs with 1.25 gigs of ram.

I also stuck in a 160 gig hard drive. I later found out that Sawtooth's only address a maximum of 128 gigs. Of course, I had already gotten rid of my PCI ATA card which would have corrected that problem. Oh well! I'm looking to pick up a USB 2.0 PCI card as well and a cheap video card if they still exist.

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