I must disagree,
I have just had a Pismo 400 upgraded to 550 G4 (Daystar) and it is performing very well, much much faster than my other original 400 G3. (being overseas, I bought another Pismo in the states on eBay and had it upgraded. - was never without a laptop during upgrade, now have two. Probably will keep orig as backup.)
Took me a while to get the G4 sorted (due to bad backside cache - reqd new processor) but now working very well.
I cannot use Skype on orig Pismo, but on G4 it works very well - one hour phone call last night very high quality, just a short period of static. Currently watching Ansari X prize video - playing well - but on orig the video and audio kept dropping out.
So looking forward to a few more years Pismoing - just love the form factor.
Stuart.
P.S. Also put in a 60 gig 7200 rpm Hitachi which may be part of the good speed but it also vibrates unacceptably. Appears to be getting less so must be bearing rumble? Out of balance does not tend to cure itself, AFAIK?
On 08/11/2004, at 4:30 AM, Laurent wrote:What are the advantages between the G3 upgrades over the G4 upgrades? I looked around a bit and found a couple of companies that are doing this...
A G4 basically provides you with Altivec, which certain applications require
or will perform a lot better if you have it. However, in term of raw
performance, there isn't a lot of difference between a 500MHz G3 and a
500MHz G4, certainly not enough to justify the price of the upgrade...
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