Upgrading a dual 450 G4 processor

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Upgrading a dual 450 G4 processor

Would it make any sense to upgrade a dual 450 processor to something faster? The bus speed is only 100Mhz. My machine still runs most apps okay except for the lates version of Pages for some reason. I recently upgraded to 10.4 as well as iwork 08. The Pages app lags significantly. It's a G4, 896 MB ram, dual 450

Any thoughts?
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Powermac G4, iBook G3, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Mar 5, 2009 12:13 PM

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Answer 1

Nadav

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Mar 5, 2009 1:27 PM in response to Mark Welch

Hi, with the cost of the mirror drive dual G4's at around 350 to 400, I would just step up to one of those. By the time you sink in the money for a CPU upgrade for that sawtooth model, you are better off just getting a dual 1.25 or dual 1.42 G4 MDD, or if you prefer, a FW800 MDD.

cpu upgrades at this point in time don't make any financial sense. And with the loss of several of them and only a few left, it seems that the days of G4 upgrades is slowly, but surely dying out.

Advice: scrap the 450 and just get a dual 1.25 or 1.42 MDD.
The bus speed is also much faster than the 100mhz bus.

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