what's a sawtooth??

tdblanchard · Post by **tdblanchard** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:31 pm

sorry if i sound like an idiot!!

jerkrecords · Post by **jerkrecords** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:40 pm

older mac G4 (450Mhz) released in 1999 or 2000.

-pete

tdblanchard · Post by **tdblanchard** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:43 pm

so my tit 550 isn't a sawtooth?

jerkrecords · Post by **jerkrecords** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:55 pm

look it up at lowendmac.com (i think thats the url)
they have info on older boxes.

pete

YouTube · Post by **James Steele** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:23 pm

tdblanchard wrote:so my tit 550 isn't a sawtooth?

I can't say for sure. Please someone expand on this. My G4 350 is a sawtooth. This was the second generation G4 motherboard. The first was called "Yosemite" and it was viewed as a "rush job" where they shoehorned a G4 to the B&W G3 motherboard to get them shipping to make Wall Street happy. Shortly after the G4 "Sawtooth" started shipping at the 400 and 450 mhz... the 350's for a while were still Yosemite, then they changed them and I bought one. There was a way you could tell looking at the back panel... it had to do with how the USB ports were aligned as I recall. Someone else please expand. Or better yet google "Sawtooth G4" and see what you find.

johnnytucats · Post by **johnnytucats** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 7:01 pm

everymac.com is the place to look for info.

tdblanchard · Post by **tdblanchard** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:36 am

i've done a very small amount of research and can't seem to find a definitive answer.
no one seems to know what is meant by the term "sawtooth".
oh well.

tdblanchard · Post by **tdblanchard** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 7:06 am

"The low-end "Sawtooth" G4 (with AGP graphics instead of PCI)"
-from http://www.macopinion.com/columns/curmudgeon/99/10/14/

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 5:54 am

Sawtooth:
PowerMac G4, AGP Graphics
Introduced September, 1999
Discontinued, July, 2000
Processor Speeds: 350, 400, 450, 500MHz
Bus: 100MHz

Yikes:
Powermac G4 (PCI Graphics)
Introduced: August, 1999
Discontinued: December, 1999
Processor Speeds: 350, 400 MHz
Bus: 100 MHz

Yosemite:
Powermac G3 (Blue and White)
Introduced: January, 1999
Discontinued: August, 1999
Processor speeds: 300, 350, 400, 450 MHz
Bus: 100 MHz

My source is a little application that I love called "Mactracker." It's a database of every single Mac ever made, with valuable information on every one. Oh... and it has the startup chimes and "death chimes" of each one, too. (the death chimes were discontinued after the PowerMac 9600)

You can find this at Version tracker: Mactracker It's one of the handiest apps I've got, especially since I have over a dozen macs starting with the original 128k in 1984.

Shooshie

dixiechicken · Post by **dixiechicken** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:35 am

Tdblanchard!

Shooshie & James nailed it.

I you by "tit 550" mean a titanium powerbook 550 - then it's not a
sawtooth.

Cheers: Dixiechicken

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what's a sawtooth??

what's a sawtooth??

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