Talk:Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White)

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This article does not contain all the hardware information for the G3 Blue and White Series. The article mentions that the 300 MHZ model had a 512 cache and did not outperform the beige G3. This is true, although the later models, including the 400MHZ Blue and White G3 shipped with a full 1MB cache.

Also, could someone please add the minimum and final operating system versions to the summary?

Binary prefixes

Recently changes have been made to this article to use binary prefixes (KiB, MiB, kibibyte, mebibyte etc). The majority of reliable sources for this article do not use binary prefixes. If you have any thoughts/opinions then this specific topic is being discussed on the following talk page Manual of Style (dates and numbers) in the sections to do with "binary prefixes". Fnagaton 10:18, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

CMD64x UltraATA controller

I noticed the B&W G3 article said the secondary ATA is not hard drive bootable, so it cannot be used as a workaround for the buggy CMD64x on the Rev. 1 board. This is not true: it boots from my Seagate 80 GB just fine. I have the latest firmware. Lavenderbunny (talk) 18:57, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Leopard with G4 Upgrade

The article states that it's possible to install Leopard by installing a G4 upgrade and using LeopardAssist. As the owner of one of these with a G4 upgrade installed, I can pretty emphatically state that it's not that simple. The Leopard retail installation is missing a lot of kexts to support the logic board on these computers, and it's not even possible to boot off a Leopard retail DVD-Leopard assist or not. Leopard installation is still possible, but requires extracting kexts from a couple of pre-retail releases as well as from Tiger to get everything working correctly. The same is also true of the PCI graphics(Yikes!) G4. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.132.54.186 (talk) 22:16, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]