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In the old PowerMac you could switch out the CPU. I seem to remember a clone that you could put a dual processor card in also.
by protomyth 10y ago
In the old PowerMac you could switch out the CPU. I seem to remember a clone that you could put a dual processor card in also.
- akoster 10y agoA relative gifted me an old PowerMac 8600/200, which originally came with a pre-G3 PowerPC 604e CPU, but had been upgraded to a G4 by swapping out the ZIF CPU card. It definitely gave a circa 1997 machine (original OS was either MacOS 7.6 or 8.0) a new lease on life and the ability to run OSX 10.2 Jaguar, (albeit slowly and after a serious RAM and HDD upgrade).
- kalleboo 10y agoI upgraded my PowerMac G4 Quicksilver to dual-CPU
- marssaxman 10y agoYes indeed - the Umax S900. I used to have one, with dual 200MHz PowerPC 604e processors, hooked up to a 256GB SCSI RAID array. That felt pretty bad-ass back in 1997/1998.