Ata Speed And Chip Question, ATA speed and chip question Options

[sampoo]

Hi guys,
I don't no that much about MAC's so i hope somebody can help me out.
I'm thinking of buying a G4 dual 1.25 as dedicated music-production system.
Is it true that a G4 oly supports ATA100 and not ATA133 drives?
I heard Apple is working on a new kind of chip. Is this true, .. when will it come out and will it be much better than the current chips?
Tnaks in advance,
Alex

[lepetitmartien]

Current G4 motherboard crop supports only an ATA100 bus, but you can use ATA 133 , you simply don't benefit from all the possibilities of the drives.

Until Apple decide to upgrade to something better or faster.

And we have no clue of the when question.

On the chip issues there are rumors on the G5, but we'll know only when Apple decides to tell it is so. And it's not the G4 or G5646 chip that make the full use of ATA133 possible, but other software/hardware adjustement on the motherboard and the system as the supervision of IDE/ATA peripherals depends of the main processor(s).

Except if you use a dedicated PCI card, then the card controls the drives and you have if the card is ATA133 the benefits of ATA133 and no stress on the main processor(s))

Now I still want a 10XG5, 6 PCI, 2 AGP mac to replace my trusty but oooooold BW G3 400… it's time for a change