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Refreshing my iMac G5
  • Andreas_Wolf
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12407 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > So 1 x 2GB RAM, which specs?

    DDR2 SDRAM, DDR2-533 PC2-4200 or faster.
    The 2.5 GiB maximum is outdated Wikipedia info, sorry. People have managed to get up to 4.5 GiB to work:

    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=13558&forum=3&start=7 (#8)
    https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/n53nqn/so_the_isight_g5_imac_tops_out_at_25gb_does_it/

    > Recommended SSD that can work on G5 old SATA quite well?

    See the linked thread, and threads linked from there.

    > GRUB - can it pick MOS and MacOS X choices?

    Good question. I don't know, sorry.

    >> I'm not sure about ExFAT for PPC Mac OS, but NTFS-3G exists for it.

    > I wonder could MacOS X see NTFS partition

    Yes, at least with NTFS-3G installed.
  • »22.02.24 - 14:32
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