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Crazy Eastern European G4 Car Mod
If there was ever a doubt about Eastern European Mac fans, let that shred of uncertainty be squelched. Today on MacMod one of the most amazing car installs of a Mac I have ever witnessed was posted after being translated [from Czech?].Jiri Jirout first created a custom housing with waterproof-yet-breathable Gore-Tex ports for his 450MHz G4 (codename Sawtooth). The Sawtooth model is near and dear to my heart, I am writing this post off my 400MHz Sawtooth which was upgraded to 2GHz with a Powerlogix CPU. Next, he modded his Eastern European Tatra brand car to include: An ethernet network Wifi for hotspots GPRS to internet for the car in cases where one is too far from Wifi GPS with a Garmin module and Route 66 mapping software Custom front end software written in Cocoa for car data Custom movie player software Scripts for iTunes so that back seat passengers can listen to different music than in the front And much more... The fact that the original article from which this is translated dates from the winter of 2003/2004 makes this mod all the more amazing. Huge props to Jiri Jirout and his crew of microcontroller designing and software writing friends.
Engadget upgrades a Sawtooth G4
The folks at Engadget have posted an exhaustively thorough article on an upgrade they performed on a 400mhz Powermac G4. Specifically, they replaced the stock processor with a PowerLogix PowerForce47 G4/2.0GHz, with 512K 1:1 L2 Cache per processor. In the process, they came up with more comprehensive set of instructions than the rather anemic list that shipped with the PowerLogix processor. After a short trip into the wonderful world of firmware, they've got their Sawtooth purring along happily with its new 2.0GHz heart intact. Check it out.
