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Post #10 by ClassicHasClass
Source ForumPPCMLA
CategoryOS 8
Post DateMon, 1 Feb 2010 - 00:34
Original URLhttp://www.ppcmla.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=167
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I'm going to grave-dig this a little.

My 1400 currently has a c display, a 466MHz G3 (yes, the last of the Sonnets), 60MB of RAM, RAMDoubler (doubled to 120MB), Apple 8-bit video out card, and a much faster 4GB disk. I don't trust the CF trick -- I'm always leery of write cycles pooping (boy, that's a conservative cussbuster) out when you least expect it -- and anyway both slots are occupied, one with an EtherLink III and the other with a modem card. It runs 9.1.

This wasn't cheap to put together, but the machine really runs pretty well, considering. The only gaffe is that the 466MHz card looks like a 233MHz card to Apple System Profiler because of the bus multiplier (the Sonnet extension essentially double-pumps it: think 68040), so it's clearly not getting the full benefit, but it is still at least a bit faster than the 333MHz (best shown when it's playing Quake). With all that in there, it runs Classilla surprisingly well and more than a few games. This laptop is rather special to me because for many years it was the only laptop I had.
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