On Jun 20, 2009, at 6:47 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
> Powerlogix made a dual 933 back in 2003 and probably into 2004. > > FWIW, I have a Powerlogix dual 1.2GHz in my DA (originally a 533) > running Leopard. Sounds right. Right now, Freescale is making 1.4 MHz and slower G4s, and that's about all. Gone are the days of factory 1.5, 1.6, 1.8 and 2.0 GHz G4s Any faster ones are overclocked chips which have been hand-selected by the OEM vendor. There is always a "sweet spot" for price-performance. At one point, this was 1.2 GHz on third party single G4 replacement processors for 100 and 133 MHz bus G4s. At that particular point, I elected to go with dual 1.0 GHz Apple Quicksilver 2002 processors, and I was not disappointed. That is, until the Intels came out. I mean, of course, the Hackintosh Intels, not the "Mackintosh" Intels. After numerous benchmarks of various kinds of CD and DVD authoring and duplication, it came down to these basic stats: 1) a greater than 4.7 GB DVD compressed down to within a 4.7 GB DVD in about 60 minutes, using a dual 1.0 GHz G4 "Mackintosh" under Tiger (10.4.11), and 2) a greater than 4.7 GB DVD compressed down to within a 4.7 GB DVD in about 12.5 minutes, using a dual 3.6 GHz C2D or a 3.2 GHz C2Q Hackintosh, under Leopard (10.5.6 or 10.5.7). With a nearly five-to-one advantage (wall clock time) in favor of Hackintoshes, I converted all my CD and DVD work over to Hacks. I still have one dual 1.0 GHz G4 "Mack" in use, primarily for Mail.app and also for running the Classic versions of Photoshop and Acrobat creator. Everything else goes on the Hacks. Also, I have gone away from my 500 MHz Pismo with 1 GB of RAM. I am now using a OCZ Neutrino (Intel Atom-based "build it yourself" Netbook) with 2.0 GB of RAM, built-in WiFi, built-in iCam, built-in card reader, builtin Express-34 slot for Firewire and eSATA expansion, and all the other goodies one expects from a Netbook running Leopard 10.5.7. http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a <+> A home for the Hackintosh community. To subscribe to the HQ-A group, send email to hq-a +subscr...@googlegroups.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
