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Has a PowerPC upgrade been installed? — #6

Determine by startup chime. If it has a 540 chime, it is 68k. If it has a 500/PPC chime, it is PowerPC. http://mactracker.dreamhosters.com/
68kMLA PowerPC by Performa6360 Tue, 9 Mar 2010 - 22:34

Has a PowerPC upgrade been installed? — #5

Nope, it doesn't have graphing calculator installed. Once I can get my PC and my 540c to play nice, though, I'll see if I can find a utility to tell me what processor is installed.…
68kMLA PowerPC by Concorde105 Tue, 9 Mar 2010 - 22:03

Has a PowerPC upgrade been installed? — #4

Do you have Graphing Calculator installed? If so, it will give an error when you open it on a 68k Mac. "Sorry, Requires Power Macintosh" or something to that effect.
68kMLA PowerPC by Dennis Nedry Tue, 9 Mar 2010 - 20:33

Has a PowerPC upgrade been installed? — #3

It may have been a universal install; it appears as if the people who installed the software were from Tiger Foods. :?: They could have just made a universal set of floppies. If…
68kMLA PowerPC by Concorde105 Tue, 9 Mar 2010 - 03:29

Has a PowerPC upgrade been installed? — #2

I believe 7.5.3 has Apple System Profiler. Run that and see what it says for processor. It's very likely that the install was a "Universal" install for any system. Of course, it…
68kMLA PowerPC by Anonymous Freak Tue, 9 Mar 2010 - 03:08

Has a PowerPC upgrade been installed? — #1

Hello all, I recently acquired a PowerBook 540c. So far, I'm very happy with it, blah blah and blah. Anyways, as I was snooping around the System Folder, I noticed something: a Po…
68kMLA PowerPC by Concorde105 Tue, 9 Mar 2010 - 02:31

Just conquered a 1ghz G4 upgrade — #10

If you really want to get fancy with your 1 GHz G4, get 10.5 on that system. It's been done by others, but it's not trivial. Click to expand... Yeah, too much work and I want t…
68kMLA PowerPC by Quadraman Fri, 5 Mar 2010 - 19:30

Just conquered a 1ghz G4 upgrade — #9

Sonnet Crescendo 1ghz G4 for beige PCI Powermacs. I've been seeing a few of these being sold by Mac dealers on ebay for $225-$250 so grabbed this one because it was only $100. You …
68kMLA PowerPC by johnklos Fri, 5 Mar 2010 - 18:14

Just conquered a 1ghz G4 upgrade — #8

Sweet That bad boy deserves a worthy host - may I suggest your 9500? Click to expand... I was thinking that, too. I was originally going to put it in the 9600 when it gets …
68kMLA PowerPC by Quadraman Fri, 5 Mar 2010 - 15:41

Just conquered a 1ghz G4 upgrade — #6

I also noticed there is a dealer selling new G3 500 upgrades for the 7500 et al Macs for $199.95. That's kinda stupid since Sonnet still has stock of those for $50. 8-o Click t…
68kMLA PowerPC by MacJunky Fri, 5 Mar 2010 - 03:38

Just conquered a 1ghz G4 upgrade — #5

Not bad! I could use one of those in my beige G3, but I'm too cheap. Click to expand... This is the one for the earlier Macs, not the G3 ZIF socket. There was a 1ghz upgrade fo…
68kMLA PowerPC by Quadraman Fri, 5 Mar 2010 - 03:18

Just conquered a 1ghz G4 upgrade — #4

Not bad! I could use one of those in my beige G3, but I'm too cheap. Click to expand... This is the one for the earlier Macs, not the G3 ZIF socket. There was a 1ghz upgrade fo…
68kMLA PowerPC by aftermac Fri, 5 Mar 2010 - 01:06

Just conquered a 1ghz G4 upgrade — #3

Not bad! I could use one of those in my beige G3, but I'm too cheap. Click to expand... This is the one for the earlier Macs, not the G3 ZIF socket. There was a 1ghz upgrade fo…
68kMLA PowerPC by Quadraman Fri, 5 Mar 2010 - 00:39

Just conquered a 1ghz G4 upgrade — #1

Sonnet Crescendo 1ghz G4 for beige PCI Powermacs. I've been seeing a few of these being sold by Mac dealers on ebay for $225-$250 so grabbed this one because it was only $100. You …
68kMLA PowerPC by Quadraman Thu, 4 Mar 2010 - 19:00

Rage128 Pro 16mb w/DVD decoder (bulk purchase) — #5

I've been eyeing these off at $10-$12 apiece - if I found them at $6 I'd probably do just as you have done. Click to expand... Yeah, when I saw how many he had at the price I h…
68kMLA PowerPC by Quadraman Thu, 4 Mar 2010 - 15:24

Rage128 Pro 16mb w/DVD decoder (bulk purchase) — #3

What's also nice is I can use my standard VGA monitors now instead of the special Mac connector monitors. I don't have enough Mac monitors to put one on each of my Macs but I have …
68kMLA PowerPC by Quadraman Thu, 4 Mar 2010 - 03:42

Rage128 Pro 16mb w/DVD decoder (bulk purchase) — #1

Having tried one and found it worked fine in beige machines, I cleaned my seller out of his entire stock to upgrade the rest of my beige PCI Powermacs. I might even have one left o…
68kMLA PowerPC by Quadraman Wed, 3 Mar 2010 - 23:14

yay! — #2

iTunes and DVDs!
68kMLA PowerPC by Bunsen Mon, 1 Mar 2010 - 08:11
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