![]() Thanks to the extra memory we were not taking minutes anymore. Just to give you an idea: Loading and rendering this page took about 10–15 seconds over fast broadband. The biggest remaining bottlenecks – slow processor, bus and ram speeds – were unchanged. But do not get me wrong here, faster does not mean it suddenly was blazingly fast, as we would expect from a modern computer. While for most tasks and applications an increase in speed was not immediately noticeable, TenFourFox, a fork of Mozilla Firefox for PowerPC, launched significantly faster and page loads were also accelerated. With Speedometer on Mac OS 9 no change was measurable. On Mac OS X XBench showed a performance increase of 2–12% except for Stream Add and Strean Triad which finished with slightly lower results, up to 2%. ![]() As the individual runs‘ results varied slightly, each test was repeated three times, and for the diagram below, the average of the two best results in each set was taken into account. I ran XBench 1.3 on Mac OS X and Speedometer 4 on Mac OS 9. But with the maximum amount of memory installed, could this computer run Crysis now? Well, to figure out how performance was affected by the upgrade a before-and-after comparison on both operating systems, Mac OS 9.2.2 and Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 was due. Stress-testing proved that the old workstation does indeed run reliably with this type of memory. With them installed the computer‘s RAM finally amounted to 1 GB, operating at a at 100 MHz, as this is the fastest this Macintosh can handle. Three more modules of the same memory tested earlier had arrived. Additional improvements I also discussed in part one, and some were made since then. ![]() ![]() A few modernisations were already made back then: the mechanical hard drive was replaced by a SD card reader plus the Mac got a quiet case fan and new memory was put in. In the first article about my 1999 Power Mac G4 I wrote about how I got this Macintosh out of storage and put it back into, well, service. ![]()
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