[geeks] Amiga 2000 acelerator card?

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>>> My G4 was $240.  It's a 733Mhz 'Digital Audio' tower.  I had the right
>>> RAM modules laying around to max it out at 1.5GB and have since moved
>>> all the disk to external firewire, since the internal IDE is only ATA/66
>>> and can't handle the smallest disk I could find at Fry's the last time I
>>> needed to buy one.
>> You know, SATA is an option, for $50 or so these days...
> 
> I highly recommend this route.  It was (in terms of price/payoff) the
> best upgrade I ever made for my Quicksilver.  Given that the Quicksilver
> has better stock IDE than the Digital Audio, I suspect it'd be an even
> nicer upgrade.
> 
> Also, any drives you invest will be useful on a G5 or Core 2 Duo system,
> should you want to upgrade later.
> 
> OS X will, of course, DTRT without any prodding whatsoever.

Wasn't SCSI always a popular upgrade for power users on Mac, and 
couldn't the SATA upgrade be considered the same thing, with an 
additional advantage in cost?  I mean, aren't SATA drives are mostly 
coming with feature sets similar to the ones that Ultra-Wide and better 
SCSI drives always came with?

Peace...  Sridhar