Leopard does show it's age a bit especially on PPC and the 1.5Ghz single G4 it boasts but still eaten alive in general tasks by the original first generation white MacBook. Firing it up every so often reminds me how much the difference running on Intel hardware but also some nostalgic look and feel of the design that evolved into the first MBP. (A PowerBook G4 which still runs on its PATA limited 320GB internal HDD upgrade I performed as well as running its limit of 2GB of memory. I have had my intentions of having this computer last me at least six years as my last Mac did rather well longer than I ever had expected. I bought it for a fraction of the cost of the Apple USB SuperDrive. I'd rather not risk it as all the documentation is in Japanese. While I do have a older USB DVD RW drive that I picked up on eBay. HDD I/O was the highest in the overall score second only to the matched pair of memory sticks installed getting me to 8GB.Ĭoncerning the optical drive, I'd prefer to keep it in as some games I play on my system still have a CD/DVD check for the application to boot. The noticeable change after swapping out from the original drive was a noticeable improvement in both Macbench and even running the system score in Windows 7 via Parallels. A move to a SSD has been something I've thought about for a while but I enjoy the extra space by the Scorpio Black and it reports in OS X in the system profiler as 3Gb/s. The limit on my Mac is 3Gb/s thanks to the 7200 RPM drive I installed over the original drive which was held back by the slower rotational speed. Dan, some limits are only seen by slower drives.
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