Apple Mac Upgrades - RAM, SSD Flash, External Drives and More

Boot Time - Mac OS X 10.3	L2 Cache	L3 Cache	Time, Sec.

Reference Apple Systems

PM G4/466MHz Digital Audio	1MB SPB SRAM	0MB	101
PM G4/2x 533MHz Digital Audio	1MB SPB SRAM x2	0MB	88
PM G4/667MHz Digital Audio	0MB	1MB DDR SDRAM	90
iMac 1GHz (167MHz, 768MB, GF4MX 32MB)	256k	0MB	68
PB G4 17" 1.33GHz (167MHz, 512MB, R9600 64MB)	512k On Chip	0MB	n/a
PM G4/2x 1.25GHz FW800	256k	2x1MB DDR SDRAM	92
PM G4/2x 1.42GHz FW800	256k	2x2MB DDR SDRAM	88
PM G5/1.6GHz (800MHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	75
PM G5/1.8GHz (900MHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	51
PM G5/2x 2.0GHz (1GHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	41

Acceleration Cards

OWC Mercury Extreme G4/800MHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	88
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/800MHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	86
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	86
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	85
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.2GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	83
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	83
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.25GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	84
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.33GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	84
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.4GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	83
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz @ 1.467GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	82
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.467GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	83
PowerLogix PowerForce Dual G4 2x1.2GHz (7457)	512k x2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	84

Time to boot into Mac OS X 10.3 (cold boot). Note: This test seems skewed because the G4 upgrade systems were using a FirmTek Serial ATA controller card and it seemed to add at least 30 seconds to the startup times. The G5 systems were using their own internal SATA controller that is built in.