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help finding power mac G4 model type

Submitted by thetubemusicnetwork on June 27, 2008 - 4:13pm. PowerPC Macs

I got this power mac 4 from a friend and i cant seem to find what type of model it is. It has an agp graphics slot, 4 ram slots not 3, 400 mhz processor, microphone and speaker horizontal on the i/o board. its an older model, not the quicksilver type. the family number is m5183. I wanted to see if i could upgrade the processor and what type of processors would fit. I was going to upgrade the 10 gb harddrive and i already upgraded the cd drive to a dvd rw drive.

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Smiththers's picture

that sounds to me like a sawt

Submitted by Smiththers on June 27, 2008 - 5:48pm.

that sounds to me like a sawtooth system, am i right guys and gals?

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eeun's picture

You've most likely got a Sawt

Submitted by eeun on June 27, 2008 - 5:50pm.

You've either got a Sawtooth G4 (more likely), or a Gigabit (which will have a heatsink somewhere near the ethernet port).
Both take the same upgrades for processor, drives, etc.

You can compare specs here, and MacSales will let you choose upgrades my Mac model.

While you can upgrade the processor, you might also want to compare the cost of your planned upgrades vs. the cost of buying a later G4 model on ebay.
As I've said here before, buying a 733 or 800 MHz Digital Audio or later G4 will surpass the speed of a 1 GHz CPU upgrade on the slower bus of the Sawtooth/Gigabit systems.

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Hawaii Cruiser's picture

telling the difference

Submitted by Hawaii Cruiser on June 27, 2008 - 7:08pm.

here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58418

and for Quicksilver and above, here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42739

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If you would like to have mor

Submitted by Texas Mac Man on June 28, 2008 - 8:03pm.

If you would like to have more information on your Macintosh (model, date of production, etc) then enter your serial number at this site. Information, based on the serial number, will be shown.
Covers all Apple products including computers, laptops, monitors, printers and batteries.
http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html

Cheers, Tom

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