![]() ![]() Unfortunately for the PowerPC camp, Motorola and IBM some time ago either could not improve performance enough or simply had decided to no longer focus their efforts on making the PowerPC chips with applications for desktop or portable systems any faster and the upgrade speed potential has been stalled for some time. Options have been limited in the past for a number of reasons including Apple’s maintenance of a closed CPU architecture that was closely tied to ROM among other reasons. There are currently a number of manufacturers including Newer Technology, Daystar Technology, Powerlogix and Sonnet Technology. Not much has changed since then as the upgrade routine is largely the same depending upon the model of Macintosh you may have and who makes CPU upgrades that will be compatible with your particular Macintosh. I’ve written about upgrades to Macintosh systems years before for the now dormant Applelust website. ![]() However, I’d invested a fair amount of money into internal hard drives (2 250GB Seagates), memory (1.5 GB RAM), and software applications that are not yet universal binary, such as Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite (although I am beta testing Photoshop CS3 on the MacPro at work and it *is* amazingly fast) for this system and for the money, figured that if upgraded for a few hundred dollars, I could easily get another couple of years out of this machine before dropping the cash on whatever new hotness Apple has available then. Granted, upgrading your Macintosh does not always make sense given the kind of power you can pick up in even a low end Mac Mini with dual core Intel chips these days. The title of this entry comes with all apologies to Brad Oliver, but I could not resist using it to talk about upgrading my trustworthy Quicksilver PowerMac that has been used for a home computer and as a system to manage the various media in the house as well as functioning as a Photoshop machine to complement the photography habit.Īs it was, the Quicksilver system *was* a G4 running at 733 Mhz, plenty fast for running OS X, surfing the web, writing and such, but a bit too slow for my photography and frankly, it just felt slow given that I am rolling with a MacPro quad 3.0 Ghz Xeon in my office at work.
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