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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / September 2007G4/400 Sawtooth vs G4/533 Digital Audio
I'll be buying a friend's G4/533 DA when he gets his new Intel iMac. I have a G4/400 Sawtooth. Since my husband doesn't need a superduper machine (he only does email, web, and word processing), I'm thinking of giving him my G4/400 and I'll take the G4/533. Is the G4/533 DA much of an improvement over the G4/400? IOW, is it worth the hassle of transferring all my stuff over, reinstalling software, etc.? In article <magdalenabung-39DA7B.13592021082007@comcast.dca.giganews.com>, > I'll be buying a friend's G4/533 DA when he gets his new Intel iMac. I > have a G4/400 Sawtooth. Since my husband doesn't need a superduper > machine (he only does email, web, and word processing), I'm thinking of > giving him my G4/400 and I'll take the G4/533. Is the G4/533 DA much of > an improvement over the G4/400? IOW, is it worth the hassle of > transferring all my stuff over, reinstalling software, etc.? I'd think it would be. You get a faster memory bus, 133MHz vs 100MHz and a faster graphics bus, 4X AGP vs 2X AGP. Or course, this all could depend on how much memory you have in your current G4 and how much is in the G4 you're buying. In OS X, the Mac with the larger amount of memory likely will feel faster overall. A few years back when I decided to upgrade from a Beige G3 to a G4, I considered the G4 Digital Audio model to be the lowest end G4 I'd buy. I ended up with a G4/533 DA. Since upgraded, but I wouldn't consider putting much money into upgrading a Mac this old these days. BTW - I just used Carbon Copy Cloner to copy everything from my G3 to my G4. This was 10.2.8. Later upgraded to 10.3 followed by 10.4, so transferring stuff was fairly painless. OS X retail boxes tend to do a full install that works on any supported system. You don't want to do that with an OS X install that came with the computer as original software. Greg Buchner  SignatureActual e-mail address is gregbuchner and I'm located at gmail.com > In article > <magdalenabung-39DA7B.13592021082007@comcast.dca.giganews.com>, [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Greg Buchner The G4/533 DA has 10.4.10 on it. Can I use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy everything (my documents, applications, preferences) but the system? > > In article > > <magdalenabung-39DA7B.13592021082007@comcast.dca.giganews.com>, [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > the G4 you're buying. In OS X, the Mac with the larger amount of memory > > likely will feel faster overall. A minor point relating to memory: the Digital Audio model only has three memory slots, while the Sawtooth has four. Under Mac OS X, this means the Digital Audio's maximum memory is 1.5 GB, while the Sawtooth can go up to 2.0 GB. > The G4/533 DA has 10.4.10 on it. Can I use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy > everything (my documents, applications, preferences) but the system? No. It would replace the entire system with your old one. Carbon Copy Cloner can pick which folders to copy at the top level of the hard drive, but this won't work as third-party and Apple application and system files are mixed together in the Library and Applications folders. You need to use Migration Assistant (in /Applications/Utilities) and a Firewire cable (with the Sawtooth in Firewire Target Mode) to transfer the data from your old computer, assuming it is already running a not-too-old version of Mac OS X. Migration Assistant is very easy to use. Just follow the on-screen instructions. I did this when going from my PowerBook G4 to my MacBook Pro and it worked very well. I needed to reinstall a couple of applications that were unhappy about being migrated, but almost everything worked without a hitch. SignatureDavid Empson dempson@actrix.gen.nz > > > In article > > > <magdalenabung-39DA7B.13592021082007@comcast.dca.giganews.com>, [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > the Digital Audio's maximum memory is 1.5 GB, while the Sawtooth can go > up to 2.0 GB. Ah yes, I knew I forgot something... Thanks... Greg Buchner SignatureActual e-mail address is gregbuchner and I'm located at gmail.com > > > In article > > > <magdalenabung-39DA7B.13592021082007@comcast.dca.giganews.com>, [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > the Digital Audio's maximum memory is 1.5 GB, while the Sawtooth can go > up to 2.0 GB. Thanks for letting me know that. It's beginning to look like I should give the DA to hubby and stick with my Sawtooth. I have 1792MB of PC100 RAM, which can't be used in the DA, which only has 768MB. In order to bump it up to the max 1.5GB, I'd have to buy RAM for it. Plus I'd want to switch graphics cards if the DA has a lesser card than the Radeon that's in my Sawtooth. Oh well, the DA will be a nice upgrade from hubby's Bondi Blue iMac and OS9)! An Apple Studio Display comes with it too, so he'll be in seventh heaven, especially with OSX. > > A minor point relating to memory: the Digital Audio model only has three > > memory slots, while the Sawtooth has four. Under Mac OS X, this means [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > give the DA to hubby and stick with my Sawtooth. I have 1792MB of PC100 > RAM, which can't be used in the DA, which only has 768MB. Ah, that's a significant factor then. For your information, in case you consider another model: The Sawtooth and Gigabit Ethernet models (which use PC100 memory) have four RAM slots. The Digital Audio and QuickSilver models (which use PC133 memory) have three RAM slots. The Mirrored Drive Door models (which use DDR266/PC2100 or DDR333/PC2700) have four RAM slots again. SignatureDavid Empson dempson@actrix.gen.nz In article <magdalenabung-39DA7B.13592021082007@comcast.dca.giganews.com>, > I'll be buying a friend's G4/533 DA when he gets his new Intel iMac. I > have a G4/400 Sawtooth. Since my husband doesn't need a superduper > machine (he only does email, web, and word processing), I'm thinking of > giving him my G4/400 and I'll take the G4/533. Is the G4/533 DA much of > an improvement over the G4/400? IOW, is it worth the hassle of > transferring all my stuff over, reinstalling software, etc.? What were you using the Sawtooth to do? As far as data transfer, I'd just swap the whole hard drive. PE -- > In article > <magdalenabung-39DA7B.13592021082007@comcast.dca.giganews.com>, [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > PE I'm actually doing heavy-duty graphics on it! Yeah, it's old, but it's still quite zippy! I will just swap the drive. There's an 80gig one in the 533. I'll either leave it in there (giving me a total 200gig including my 120) and buy a cheap drive for the Sawtooth to augment its stock 10gig, or just put the 80gig into the Sawtooth. |
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