I recently set up a Rev 1 300MHz B&W as a server and found this discussion very helpful. After getting through the video issues (see http://archive.mac-mgrs.org/archive/...0102…

I spoke just a little too soon. It turns out that the 60GB drive I mentioned above refused to work even on the same bus as the CD. It was only recognized as a 30GB drive. However, …

Sounds to me that the drive was mistakenly jumpered for "limit to 37GB". The IDE bus for the optical and zip certainly does support up to 128GB drives. I highly, highly advise yo…

- Can anyoone confirm having problems with a HD connected to the expansion bay ATA bus on a RevA BB G3? - Can such a problem be detected with software like TechTools or disk Utilit…

Yes it has been confirmed by many many users on the xlr8yourmac database reports. But this problem only exists on the Rev 1 B&W's. It doesn't matter what drive it is, if it is…

And it's not just if the drive is a second drive on the ATA/33 channel -- basically ANY non-factory drive WILL suffer data corruption. I have NOT heard of problems with drives on …

Ok, this is kind of embarassing, but I had my computer, in my backback with a computer sleeve, fall off of a 4 foot high table, onto the floor. I thought it got through the episod…

Lately, something seems slow about my pismo. On SNES9X it gets lower performance than my rev. C iMac, and video files, .avi files in particular have had horrible performance, dropp…

R...A...M

RAM.

Quote: Originally posted by PowerMacMan: RAM. I realize that adding ram would help, but from what ive been told 320 mb should be plenty for just running one or two…

I run a 400 pismo with 320mb RAM and have never felt that my system suffered from a lack of RAM. I can't speak to the RAM requirements of SNES emulation, but my initial thoughts ar…

alternatively, I have also experienced dramatic slow downs on my Pismo by allowing the drive to fill up. My perception is that with less than 1 GB free on teh hard drive, Panther …

Quote: Originally posted by rjc3: alternatively, I have also experienced dramatic slow downs on my Pismo by allowing the drive to fill up. My perception is that with le…

Disk Warrior can also help with speed problems associated with suboptimal directories. This can happen even with a half empty HD -- scattered files really hurt the OS. I know with…

8megs of videoram... so the ext monitor MAY be the problem. if the pismo screen is completely useless, will be hard to confirm this. try some other screen resolutions? just a thou…

RAM -- Mac OS X alone, after just a little bit of web browsing, can easily take up hundreds and hundreds of MB of RAM. For example, all I have running now is iChat and Safari, but …

Trade up.

It may be too early in the lifetime of the G5 to answer this question, but I was wondering if anyone knew whether or not it's possible to upgrade a G5 1.6 to one of the higher spee…

At this point, I think it's too early to tell what may happen. I don't think I've come across any detailed discussion about if there will ever be processor upgrades for the G5 mode…

I can tell you that there is no way to add a second processor to the 1.6GHz model. The connectors and glue circuits are missing from the motherboard.

Apple seems to have killed the upgrade market. Upgraded computers kill new sales and Apple is all about new sales.

Every new Apple design gives way to the "no upgrade" sadists. About 18 months later, an upgrade comes out using some clever-but-semi-obvious method to get one working. Remember t…

I would imagine that eventually there willl be processor upgrades for the G5. Thing is at the moment they are so new, it will be a while before we will see any. Probably from power…

Thank you for all the comments and suggestions. I think I *will* probably get a dual G5 since it does seem to have at least more upgrade potential than the single processor G5.