Daystar Introduces G4 Upgrade for Original iMac
Daystar Introduces G4 Upgrade for Original iMac
by , 12:45 PM EDT, March 29th, 2007
Daystar Technology announced the immediate availability of its XLR8 G4 processor upgrade kit for Apple's first generation tray-loading G3 iMac on Thursday. The XLR8 G4 IMTL kit includes a 400MHz G4 processor with 1MB cache, is compatible with 233MHz up through 333MHz G3 iMacs, and requires XPostFacto for users planning on installing Mac OS X 10.4. It is priced at US$99.
Observer Comments
We're not talking about restoring a vintage car here. This is a very strange use of time, money, resources, etc.
There are virtually no upgrades available for the MDD G4 towers, yet they're going to bother upgrading the original iMac AND require running XPostFacto to get it to OS X?
Bizzaro!
Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:48 pm Subject: Priced okay, but...
Don't forget.. .even if you upgrade your CPU to a [not-so-screaming] G4 400Mhz, you'll still be running a 66Mhz bus and RAM, an ATA-3 (16MB/s) hard drive controller, and an OLD video chipset. These are all very important factors in your machines performance.
But for $99, it might not be all that bad to squeeze an extra year of life out of an old machine for someone. At least it is priced reasonably.
QuoteTiger wrote:
We're not talking about restoring a vintage car here. ... yet they're going to bother upgrading the original iMac AND require running XPostFacto to get it to OS X?
Actually, the imac upgrade technology has existed for years. The product news is that it is now a simple kit... due to the supply of CPU cards and CPUs at a very low price. The fact is that there are still very many of these older systems out there, and users want to boost the speed, but don't want to bury hundreds of dollars.
QuoteTiger wrote:
We're not talking about restoring a vintage car here. This is a very strange use of time, money, resources, etc.
There are virtually no upgrades available for the MDD G4 towers, yet they're going to bother upgrading the original iMac AND require running XPostFacto to get it to OS X?
Bizzaro!
You only need XPostFacto for Tiger. Panther should work fine normally. Apple does not officially support Tiger on pre-FireWire machines.
And a Bondi iMac is so much better than any vintage car...
Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:07 am Subject: Still, what's the point?
Yes , but you would be surprised how many schools use iMacs and would appreciate any speed increase they could get. These were always meant to be cheap consumer model computers , last surprisingly well and meet the basic needs of institutions / schools that have very limited resources. These are now viable machines for these places to buy secondhand and upgrade to a reasonable level for a few hundred dollars .Similarly aged Dells would have been junked two years ago.I would rather see schools using a room full of Macs than Dells anyday
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