Re: [WinMac] Mac processor upgrades

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:25:30 -0500

        Actually, I have to disagree with Leonard on the 6100's: The video
subsystem REALLY sucked. Unless you used a right angle PDS adapter and used
either an AV video card or a PDS video card from a 7100 or 8100, the video
stole CPU cycles... Lots of them!

        Just look in Norton Utilities at the benchmarks for 1 bit, 4 bit, 8 bit
and 16 bit video for the 6100, and how the **overall** machine speed was
halved with each step up in video quality!

        By the way, this was the reason that NetWare 4.1 never worked as fast as
it should have on the 9150/120 boxes: These too relied on motherboard
CPU-driven video... And now I can reveal my "speed secret" for 9150's and
9150/120's: Put a PDS video or AV card in the machine, and watch it fly!

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 12:18 PM 1/25/00 -0500, TR wrote:
>
>
>> >Tom Roth wrote:
>> >
>> >Why would someone even bother trying to upgrade a 6100 in the first
>> >place?!
>
>
>> Leonard Rosenthol replied:
>>
>> Because the 6100 is a nice machine in a nice form factor!
>
>Leonard,
>
>I usually agree with you but this one time I'm going to have disagree.
>I love Macs but those 6100 pizza boxes are cramped for space and was one
>of the most unstable Macs I've ever worked on. I don't think a day went
>by that it didn't lock up at least once. I prefer a mini tower on the
>floor so I guess this pizza box design is the antithesis of that.
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Tom Roth Wake Forest University School of Medicine
> tomroth@wfubmc.edu Dept of Biomedical Communications

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