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Super Silent Upgrade
« on: July 14, 2010, 11:46:55 AM »
So Chuffed :)
 
Wanted to share my news.   Been trying to get a silent upgrade mini but they been going for more than I would like on ebay.  
 
So I settled for 1.42 with ariport card.  Accidentally won it for £150 as even they been going for more than that.
 
 
Quickly conencted up to monitor ,keyboard etc in work  And its actually the 1.5ghz with 64mb vram.  Forget to check RAM but assume its 1GB if silent is that correct?  Got 80 Gig HDD.
 
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Re: Super Silent Upgrade
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2010, 12:30:44 PM »
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So I settled for 1.42 with ariport card.  Accidentally won it for £150 as even they been going for more than that.

Quickly conencted up to monitor ,keyboard etc in work  And its actually the 1.5ghz with 64mb vram.

Nice :)
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Forget to check RAM but assume its 1GB if silent is that correct?

No, they shipped with 512MB.
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Re: Super Silent Upgrade
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2010, 01:01:22 PM »
Did all the silents have superdrive or was it optional ?
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Re: Super Silent Upgrade
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2010, 01:15:10 PM »
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Did all the silents have superdrive or was it optional ?


http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/the-mac-minis-silent-upgrade/5

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The AI story also indicates that the new minis will ship with faster 5400RPM drives, ATI Radeon 9200 GPUs with up to 64MB of VRAM and 8x double-layer SuperDrives
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Re: Super Silent Upgrade
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2010, 02:00:00 PM »
My 1.5 G4 Mini came with a CD-RW so I guess you never know.
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Re: Super Silent Upgrade
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2010, 02:01:35 PM »
Kewl
 
So I Apart from the ram. I do own the fastest, highest spec released machine capaple of running a next gen Amiga OS there is.
 
Nice.
 
Looking fwd to getting home downloading MorphOS :)
 
Anyone know how much the last version of Mac OS is? Looking at the OS when I quickly booted it in work it ddidnt look like leopard but tiger. is it worth getting leopard ?
 
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PS  Will the about Mac option on the menu tell me if its got a superdrive, whats easiest way to tell.  Never owned an apple producct before, would like this to be my last as well :)
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Re: Super Silent Upgrade
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2010, 02:06:17 PM »
MorphOS on the Mini is REALLY fast. I reg'ed it right away after trying it. OSX IMO is pokey at best on the G4 Mini, even with the max 1 gig ram.
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Re: Super Silent Upgrade
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2010, 02:14:51 PM »
Cant find Leopard on Apple store, it no longer for sale ?
 
will I have to go doen the searching online method ?
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Re: Super Silent Upgrade
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2010, 02:58:40 PM »
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Did all the silents have superdrive or was it optional ?


Mine had a combo.
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Re: Super Silent Upgrade
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2010, 03:11:10 PM »
You can buy Leopard for around 70 pounds at the Ebay UK website.
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Re: Super Silent Upgrade
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2010, 03:41:44 PM »
think will stick with tiger then, as i bought it for morphos anyway
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Re: Super Silent Upgrade
« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2010, 04:25:39 PM »
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think will stick with tiger then, as i bought it for morphos anyway


A newer version of Mac OS would eat all your RAM anyway.
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Re: Super Silent Upgrade
« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2010, 05:02:42 PM »
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A newer version of Mac OS would eat all your RAM anyway.


Then it leaves little memory turdlettes all over the house.  Not fun to clean up :laughing:
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Re: Super Silent Upgrade
« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2010, 05:32:19 PM »
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Then it leaves little memory turdlettes all over the house.  Not fun to clean up :laughing:


To be fair, AmigaOS has more problems with memory fragmentation ;)
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Re: Super Silent Upgrade
« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2010, 07:30:37 PM »
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To be fair, AmigaOS has more problems with memory fragmentation ;)


I shall from here on out forever call cleaning the litter box "defraging."  Thank you!
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