> In order to get one model in the G4 lineup down under $2,000-and to get it out to customers as soon as possible Apple placed a 400MHz G4 processor onto a slig

> In order to get one model in the G4 lineup down under $2,000-and to get it out to customers as soon as possible Apple placed a 400MHz G4 processor onto a slightly modified version of the blue-and-white G3’s logic board and put the board in the new Power Mac G4 case. One really shitty thing Apple did alongside this was release a firmware update for the actual Blue&White G3 which prevented it from booting with a G4 CPU swapped in, something that worked fine with the original 1.0 firmware: https://web.archive.org/web/20021002071131/http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58374 https://web.archive.org/web/20021002071131/http://docs.info.... Luckily the block was easily and quickly undone by the various upgrade manufacturers, but it shouldn't have been there to begin with: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/powerlogix-g4-firmware-updater-11 https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/powerlogix-g4-firmware-upda...