I too have a Dual 867 that i upgraded from a G4 400mhz. The way i see it, it's the best bang for the buck, and when the new G5s come out in the next 2 years this 1 will have paid for it'self.
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Anyone here have a dual 867?
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I too have a Dual 867 that i upgraded from a G4 400mhz. The way i see it, it's the best bang for the buck, and when the new G5s come out in the next 2 years this 1 will have paid for it'self.
I would get a dual 867 jsut for the 4 hd spaces, ata 100, ddr and dual 5.25 inch drive bays. I mean, i just got a 933 recently and the dual 867 just makes me drool because if its features and its price. If you can afford it, no matter what any magazine's benchmarks say.... get it if you want a solid upgrade from your current mac or PC (cept any new pmacs such as the quicksilver ones).
ya, 4 extra slots for storage is pretty sweet (concidering there was only 2 slots for storage on my peecee (well only 1 on my hp case but we got a diff case) and 4 slots for optical drives (only one slot on the hp case)...my pc compared to a ddr powermac is like comparing molasses to water 
Originally posted by SilvorX
ya, 4 extra slots for storage is pretty sweet (concidering there was only 2 slots for storage on my peecee (well only 1 on my hp case but we got a diff case) and 4 slots for optical drives (only one slot on the hp case)...my pc compared to a ddr powermac is like comparing molasses to water
Or tortises to ferraris...
ya pretty appealing...but then again 2700 is still ALOT of money for a computer...but if it lasts me 5 years..it will be worth it
..as long as it isnt one of those slow as hell computers that are powermac g3s (the all one one kind that are basically a monitor and cd rom/floppy built into em (the 150/something series or whatever with 64 mb of ram n it took years for things to load...but then again it was on os 8.1))
Originally posted by SilvorX
ya pretty appealing...but then again 2700 is still ALOT of money for a computer...but if it lasts me 5 years..it will be worth it
My old english teacher has one of those. Hes got it pretty souped up too. g4 addon card, scsi burner, many hd's, etc.
And ur right... 2700 is a tad steep.. but it will definately last you.. and sicne ur going to college, you can work and pay for a new one with the money u get there if necessary.
no no no, there were diff kinds of powermac g3's lol, its design was of a monitor (regular cheap 15" monitor) with a cd rom drive/mobo/etc built into it..theyre slowwwww but all the teachers used em up till this year (they got em replaced with classic imacs) but the computer room is still half full of the slow computers (with a few imacs and half power mac g3 "only for school" computers)...
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Jimong,
I've got the dual 867 and the ATI 9000 too, with 768 RAM. But, have u noticed this (or is it just me): If you drag a window around in a circle - even with no programs open at all directly after cold startup - (a finder window, browser window, anything), it kind of jumps every second or so, as if it's struggling to keep up? The funny thing is, even though the window moves quicker and smoother than new iMac G4s and even the Dual 867s with std geforce card and factory RAM (I work with these systems for my work), the jumping on my system makes it seem slower and less, responsive. Yeah for games, it's top class, but for overall finder stuff, it jumps at almost everything - even the bouncing dock icons and stuff jump from time to time, as well as doing it quite a lot with the genie effect etc.
Any ideas?
-Mark
Jimong,
I've got the dual 867 and the ATI 9000 too, with 768 RAM. But, have u noticed this (or is it just me): If you drag a window around in a circle - even with no programs open at all directly after cold startup - (a finder window, browser window, anything), it kind of jumps every second or so, as if it's struggling to keep up? The funny thing is, even though the window moves quicker and smoother than new iMac G4s and even the Dual 867s with std geforce card and factory RAM (I work with these systems for my work), the jumping on my system makes it seem slower and less, responsive. Yeah for games, it's top class, but for overall finder stuff, it jumps at almost everything - even the bouncing dock icons and stuff jump from time to time, as well as doing it quite a lot with the genie effect etc.
Any ideas?
-Mark
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Do you have any haxies installed? Have you started up on the 10.2 disc and repaired permissions?
It shouldn't be doing what you're saying it's doing. My old machine a B/W G3 400 doesn't jump it just moves slow having to load things before you use them.
Originally posted by MarkW19
Jimong,
I've got the dual 867 and the ATI 9000 too, with 768 RAM. But, have u noticed this (or is it just me): If you drag a window around in a circle - even with no programs open at all directly after cold startup - (a finder window, browser window, anything), it kind of jumps every second or so, as if it's struggling to keep up? The funny thing is, even though the window moves quicker and smoother than new iMac G4s and even the Dual 867s with std geforce card and factory RAM (I work with these systems for my work), the jumping on my system makes it seem slower and less, responsive. Yeah for games, it's top class, but for overall finder stuff, it jumps at almost everything - even the bouncing dock icons and stuff jump from time to time, as well as doing it quite a lot with the genie effect etc.
Any ideas?
-Mark
Do you have any haxies installed? Have you started up on the 10.2 disc and repaired permissions?
It shouldn't be doing what you're saying it's doing. My old machine a B/W G3 400 doesn't jump it just moves slow having to load things before you use them.
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Just got TinkerTool installed, but it was doing it long before I installed it. Yeah, I've repaired permissions a few times, still not changed. The funny thing is, for about 2 seconds after cold startup, it doesn't do it and windows move perfectly, but after that, it starts doing it for the rest of the session. Maybe it's a background process it doesn't like? But that doesn't tell me why urs isn't doing it and mine is It's not a major thing, just a bit annoying and obviously, I want it right
Just got TinkerTool installed, but it was doing it long before I installed it. Yeah, I've repaired permissions a few times, still not changed. The funny thing is, for about 2 seconds after cold startup, it doesn't do it and windows move perfectly, but after that, it starts doing it for the rest of the session. Maybe it's a background process it doesn't like? But that doesn't tell me why urs isn't doing it and mine is
It's not a major thing, just a bit annoying and obviously, I want it right
Run top in the Terminal or run Process viewer. You could set Process viewer to load at startup and maybe you could use it to see what loads at the moment it start jumping.
My Dual Ghz/DDR doesn't jump but if it did I would sh*t myself because this thing is so incredibly fast.
I would try removing tinkertool just for the hell of it and see if things change.
Another thing I just thought of is what programs do you have that start on login?
My Dual Ghz/DDR doesn't jump but if it did I would sh*t myself because this thing is so incredibly fast.
I would try removing tinkertool just for the hell of it and see if things change.
Another thing I just thought of is what programs do you have that start on login?