Why I'm OK with not being able to upgrade my Mac's CPU<article>
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Imagine if, when you start asking so much more of your Mac that you need it to be faster than it is, you could just pop the CPU out and insert a new, faster one? Today, that idea is preposterous—
at least for Macs, and yes, I hear you spluttering, PC fanboys—but it was not always so.</p><p>
Above you see the Encore/ST Duet, a dual-processor G4 chip made by Sonnet which you could swap into a Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics) to boost its performance. The manual blithely suggests that all you need in order to do this is a screwdriver and some pliers, singularly failing to mention that you also need confidence you could bounce a bear off, and a certain devil-may-care insouciance.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3019112/macs/why-im-ok-with-not-being-able-to-upgrade-my-macs-cpu.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Why I'm OK with not being able to upgrade my Mac's CPU
