05-08-2020, 03:41 AM
S. Pupp wrote:
[quote=sekker]
The G4 was not such a big jump
It depends on your usage. I experimented with different daughtercards in my PM7600.
For video processing, the G4-450MHz was more than twice as fast as the G3-500MHz. After several further upgrades, I still have the G4-450MHz cpu, but the power supply, motherboard, and case have all been changed over the years; it's now a PM8600 logic board in a PM7300 case.
I'm reminded of an episode of Only Fools and Horses:
Trigger, a maintenance man, got an award for using the same broom for 20 years, saving the company money. They were unaware the broom had had 7 new heads and 14 new handles in that time.
The G4 was no slouch when it was released - as I recall, it was the 'supercomputer' that Apple was not allowed to sell to China and some other countries. I was referring to the jump from the G3 to the G4 - not nearly as big a jump as the G3 over prior consumer CPUs. The latter caused massive disruption in chip design at Intel and x86 chipmakers AMD and others.