I should've known I'd be flamebait for dissing the venerable Yikes. I will say that for a time I had both a Yikes and a Sawtooth with the same clock speed. Even stock, the Sawtooth was noticably faster. Plus it was easier to find faster/better upgrades for it. It most especially was difficult to upgrade the CPU. I eventually gave the Yikes away to a friend who wanted a Mac to play with.
One of the problems of owning an old Mac is the cost of upgrades. In my case, I opted to sell the Sawtooth and buy a dual G5 for $400. It smokes any G4 I've ever used. Eric Sent from my iPhone On Sep 12, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Bill Connelly <billycarm...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > On Sep 12, 2009, at 10:47 AM, dc wrote: > >> >> On Sep 12, 8:09 am, Eric Volker <evol...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> If you ever do have the opportunity to own a Yikes, run away. > > I oc'd my 400MHz Yikes! to 450, added a Sonnet Trio FW400/USB2/ATA133 > and a SCSI card or two, and now have a very useful SCSI UMAX 2400S > Scanner and USB2 Nikon 5000ED Scanner Mac ... all spare parts / > externals from my PPC 8500 days. > > Also recently connected it via an Airlink 101 USB2 Ethernet adapter > out in my painting studio at 54Mb/s. > > Probably should / could have run away when someone gave it to me ... > but I like Macs! > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
