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<blockquote data-quote="Silas Pradetto" data-source="post: 24083" data-attributes="member: 34">Re: Mac questionI know nothing about Macs, but I know enough about computers to assert that anything from 2001 is useless.If you can identify the processor socket type you might be able to get a faster processor, but it&#039;s only going to be a couple percent better; you&#039;re not going to get double or anything out of it. You might find used processors on eBay.RAM is usually easier, except it probably has original DDR or SD-RAM, and I don&#039;t think either are readily available anymore. If they were available, size would be limited and cost would be high, and you&#039;re probably going to not get more than double anyway.Hard drives of that era were around 20GB. One Blu-ray movie is bigger than that. It&#039;s gotta be IDE, and those drives barely exist anymore. And, they&#039;re limited to 137GB unless you do a controller firmware update...not really worth the effort.I&#039;m quite sure that the newest Mac OS won&#039;t run on that hardware.So you have acquired a nice wheel chock, or doorstop. Good luck and happy computing, chocking, or stopping! :lol:</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silas Pradetto, post: 24083, member: 34"] Re: Mac question I know nothing about Macs, but I know enough about computers to assert that anything from 2001 is useless. If you can identify the processor socket type you might be able to get a faster processor, but it's only going to be a couple percent better; you're not going to get double or anything out of it. You might find used processors on eBay. RAM is usually easier, except it probably has original DDR or SD-RAM, and I don't think either are readily available anymore. If they were available, size would be limited and cost would be high, and you're probably going to not get more than double anyway. Hard drives of that era were around 20GB. One Blu-ray movie is bigger than that. It's gotta be IDE, and those drives barely exist anymore. And, they're limited to 137GB unless you do a controller firmware update...not really worth the effort. I'm quite sure that the newest Mac OS won't run on that hardware. So you have acquired a nice wheel chock, or doorstop. Good luck and happy computing, chocking, or stopping! :lol: [/QUOTE]

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