BlueChip G4/500 Upgrade for WallStreet PB

[Jeffrey Fox]

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On Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 09:06 AM, cbsled@ncia.net wrote:

> I was just looking at this at:
>
> http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=4059&Item=PLGBCW45002001
>
> It says it won't sleep under Mac OS9.x, and I strongly doubt that they 
> support YDL...
>
> Anyone have any experience with this combo?
> Does it work with YDL?
> Is it worth the price in improved performance?
>
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> Carl Brown cbsled@ncia.net
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I have this processor upgrade in my Powerbook.   I couldn't get Yellow 
Dog to run on it.  The installer breaks with the G4 upgrade card, so I 
tried installing with the G3 cpu and then swapping it out to the G4. YD 
boots a few times before the ext3 file system becomes hopelessly 
corrupted.
Powerlogix was of no help (but then, they said they didn't support 
Linux) and I couldn't find anything on any of the mailing lists /web 
that was helpful.

My solution to the problem was to run Mac OS 10.2. There IS a 
significant performance gain with the upgrade and it works flawlessly 
with Mac OS 10.2. (I wouldn't recommend any version of OS X before 
10.2)  I'm very happy with the altivec support and the unix tools 
available for OS X (I'm mainly interested in scientific computing).   I 
do use Yellow Dog and Blacklab on G4 clusters for my work ( and can 
only say great things about it !! ) but I  decided that if I need a 
laptop for Yellow Dog with a G4 then I'd have to invest in a titanium.

Hope this helps.

Jeffrey S. Fox
Professor
Department of Mathematics & The Center  for  Neuroscience
University of Colorado
Campus Box 395
Boulder CO 80309-0395
303-492-6418
jfox@euclid.colorado.edu
http://math.colorado.edu/children/faculty/jfox/
http://www.colorado.edu/neuroscienceprogram
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On Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 09:06 AM, cbsled@ncia.net wrote:


<excerpt>I was just looking at this at:


http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=4059&Item=PLGBCW45002001


It says it won't sleep under Mac OS9.x, and I strongly doubt that they
support YDL...


Anyone have any experience with this combo?

Does it work with YDL?

Is it worth the price in improved performance?


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Carl Brown cbsled@ncia.net

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When there's no plan, there's one less thing to go wrong.

    -Joe Redington Sr.

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</excerpt>I have this processor upgrade in my Powerbook.   I couldn't
get Yellow Dog to run on it.  The installer breaks with the G4 upgrade
card, so I tried installing with the G3 cpu and then swapping it out
to the G4. YD boots a few times before the ext3 file system becomes
hopelessly corrupted. 

Powerlogix was of no help (but then, they said they didn't support
Linux) and I couldn't find anything on any of the mailing lists /web
that was helpful. 


My solution to the problem was to run Mac OS 10.2. There IS a
significant performance gain with the upgrade and it works flawlessly
with Mac OS 10.2. (I wouldn't recommend any version of OS X before
10.2)  I'm very happy with the altivec support and the unix tools
available for OS X (I'm mainly interested in scientific computing).  
I do use Yellow Dog and Blacklab on G4 clusters for my work ( and can
only say great things about it !! ) but I  decided that if I need a
laptop for Yellow Dog with a G4 then I'd have to invest in a
<fontfamily><param>Lucida Grande</param>titanium.


Hope this helps.

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Jeffrey S. Fox

Professor

Department of Mathematics & The Center  for  Neuroscience

University of Colorado

Campus Box 395

Boulder CO 80309-0395

303-492-6418

jfox@euclid.colorado.edu

http://math.colorado.edu/children/faculty/jfox/

http://www.colorado.edu/neuroscienceprogram
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