Apple Mac Upgrades - RAM, SSD Flash, External Drives and More

*ZIF Shootout*

B&W G3 Test	Hard Drive Controller	Boot Mac OSX (seconds)	StartMac OS 9 Classic (seconds)	Xbench Overall Score	Altivec Fractal	Let 1KWindows Bloom	Quake 3 Time Demo	Rip entire CD (seconds)	Photoshop Benchmark (seconds)
		Lower = Better	Lower = Better	Higher = Better	Higher = Better	Lower = Better	Higher = Better	Lower = Better	Lower = Better

*G3/300MHz 512k L2 Stock HD	Stock Onboard IDE	75	43	28.08	190.6	78	27	1832	1485
G3/300MHz 512k L2	FirmTek Serial ATA	105	33	31.77	191.6	69	26.8	1845	1442
G3/300MHz 1MB L2	FirmTek Serial ATA	105	32	32.74	191.7	66	29	1663	1376
G3/400MHz 1MB L2	FirmTek Serial ATA	104	24	38.59	333.6	55	32.1	1325	1118
G4/400MHz 1MB L2	FirmTek Serial ATA	104	24	51.43	1517.3	50	32.8	855	953
OWC G4/450MHz @ 500MHz	FirmTek Serial ATA	117	22	59.39	1746.1	49	35.1	701	773
OWC G4/500MHz @ 600MHz	FirmTek Serial ATA	96	23	65.78	2027.4	47	35	663	724
Sonnet G4/700MHz 1MB L3	FirmTek Serial ATA	97	24	67.33	2771.6	50	33.7	578	698
Sonnet G4/800MHz 1MB L3	FirmTek Serial ATA	97	23	69.73	3025.6	50	34.1	540	662
Sonnet 1GHz 1MB L3	FirmTek Serial ATA	96	21	77.04	3788.7	43	34.6	467	587

		For all the tests, the following ZIFs were used: •STOCK G3/300 512k Cache ZIF •OLD OWC G3/300 1MB Cache ZIF •OWC 450 (533 in Beige, 500 in •B&W) •Sonnet 700 G4 • Sonnet 800 G4 •Sonnet 1GHz G4
B&W G3 & PowerMac G4 "Yikes"	Beige G3
1024MB (4 256MB)	768MB (3 256MB)
Serial ATA Controller	Serial ATA Controller
Serial ATA Hard Drive	Hitachi 72K50 Serial ATA 80GB HD
Video Card	Video Card
1	1
*In our baseline test, we used only the stock IDE/ATA onboard controller with an Apple 12GB stock hard drive. All other speed tests used Serial ATA controller and HD.