![]() ![]() I am not wanting a gaming machine, but a serviceable text processor able to work with current document standards. The need for proper unicode means I can't go back to Office 2001 running in OS9 XML means I can't (readily) go back to Office 2004. This is text work for which I'd ideally like to use XML format (Open Office/ Office 2008), because of the fact that documents are sent to me for reading/ editing in that format. In my case, all I really want is to make the Cube more usable for writing and other text work such as bibliographical searches, email, and so on, in conjunction with light web browsing. (I already have a Radeon 7500, 1.25GB of RAM, and a base fan).ĭoes anyone have experience of the Dual 500MHz G4 machines who can verify the sense I get that this was a very able processor? This seems to suggest that something like a theoretical 70% speedboost for my Cube would be possible from a transplant into it of this very cheap G4 daughtercard. Geekbench is a somewhat artificial measure, I know, but that is still fairly good company to be keeping in anyone's artificial measurement. However, before I spent any beer money, I went a-searching for benchmarks and came up with this chart from Geekbench, which rates a dual G4 tower running at 500MHz as about as fast as an 867MHz single processor Quicksilver - and this despite faster system bus, etc. I have been doing a little thinking about upgrading my bought-new-in-2001 G4 Cube/450, and discover that I can buy dual 500MHz processors pretty cheap from the usual source - or put out a WTB here, for that matter. ![]()
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