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I found the old head to head Xlr8yourmac had between Sonnets 1GHz G4s and the 1.1GHz G3s, and the 600MHz (without the downclocked bus) had twice the memory performance of the G3s. The downclocked bus of the higher G4s effectively halved their memory performance to basically what the G3s were...

I think the higher (500 or 600MHz) clocked ones Daystar sold were 7410s. I think they might have been overclocked ones at that (in some article from back in the day I remember reading).

Unnecessary unless you're running beyond 40MHz. Plus, hardware overclocking isn't needed anymore as you can software overlock easily (for us end users). https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/upgrade-mc88920-to-mc88916-for-lc475-p475-q605-advanced-soldering.48616/

Yeah the G4s supported the newer/better MPX bus while the G3s were stuck on the older 60x bus.

Hol up. How long has macOS done the window snapping thing? I just now noticed that windows will 'snap' to another window. On ventura.

From a quick looks, it seems Quicktime 6 could once you got it the MPEG-2 playback component (a separate purchase at the time). Edit: Initially available for classic OS, it seems. I'm not sure if the Pre-X Mac OS Quicktime 6 could use the MPEG2 component. That might have been a OS X only thing.

As already mentioned, there is a software overclock option avaliable now for these machines. You can probably take your current 25MHz 040 to 40MHz fairly reliably.

Are we talking about Easter Egg images in general? Classic Macs were rife with them.

In sunny Costa Mesa California. Was gonna try to head down to Infinite Loop till I realized it would be 14 hours round trip 😔

Barring any issues with the PCI bridges on PCI cards in those machines, are those chipset supported by any Mac drivers even? I did a quick search and couldn't find anything.

My understanding is, without an actual upgraded ROM (solder in the slot if you need to) you CAN NOT bypass the memory test.

I'll have to spelunk my Powerbase's motherboard and see. My Z-force card lets me set the bus speed but it doesn't run at 50Mhz, but getting it to set the ram correctly might just get it booting.

I suppose back in the day, with plentiful more-upgradeable Macs (of that era), people just didn't bother looking too far into it and just assumed those Macs were permanently handicapped by Apple. Just like with the software-based overclocking done on the LC475/Q605 recently.

That's both neat and nice.

Finally got around to hooking the Mac up to the headset. Latency isn't bad, but is noticeable compared to the 165Hz display. Cats might have damaged that display too (this is the third curved display I think they messed up)

Do they allow actually hot-swapping the physical SD card? I know they allow "swapping" the disk images on the sd card. Maybe I'm confused about what he's asking.

Happy to find out that there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with my 475, just the VGA adapter. Sad I'm stuck at 640x480 now, though.