The nice thing about being a Mac geek is that you don't need to care about pretty much all the sort of stuff you've just posted about.
The annoying thing is that you don't have the option to care, either. ;o)
(I wish I could upgrade my graphics card, but I can't even open my machine - it has to be opened (and more importantly, closed) carefully, since there's loads of issues with heat conductivity and I have no desire to cause my computer to melt itself. (The LCD iMacs have a single fan at the top cooling the entire system, PSU, CPU, graphics card, and all. Thankfully G4 chips tend to run comparatively cool (it's not unheard of for PPC systems to run with no fan on the CPU at all), but offsetting that is that the whole thing is in a fairly small space, so there's not a lot of room for heat dissipation. Which is where I came in, unable to open the system 'cause it has to be put back together right.
Such a comparison to my last Mac, where to open it you just pulled a latch on the side and the whole side opened up. You could even run it like that (for a short while - it had no fan over the CPU, but it did use the PSU fan to cool the graphics card).
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Date: 2003-03-23 06:58 pm (UTC)The annoying thing is that you don't have the option to care, either. ;o)
(I wish I could upgrade my graphics card, but I can't even open my machine - it has to be opened (and more importantly, closed) carefully, since there's loads of issues with heat conductivity and I have no desire to cause my computer to melt itself. (The LCD iMacs have a single fan at the top cooling the entire system, PSU, CPU, graphics card, and all. Thankfully G4 chips tend to run comparatively cool (it's not unheard of for PPC systems to run with no fan on the CPU at all), but offsetting that is that the whole thing is in a fairly small space, so there's not a lot of room for heat dissipation. Which is where I came in, unable to open the system 'cause it has to be put back together right.
Such a comparison to my last Mac, where to open it you just pulled a latch on the side and the whole side opened up. You could even run it like that (for a short while - it had no fan over the CPU, but it did use the PSU fan to cool the graphics card).