Most collectible early Intel Mac

[Amethyst1]

Those titanium G4s... it's really a shame they didn't age well and are now beyond rare.

I don’t think the TiBooks are rare in general. I’ve owned three of them and had no difficulty finding them. The 1 GHz version comes up rarely though.

The world is full of aluminum G4s, but who wants a PPC machine that can't boot OS 9?)

OS 9 can be coaxed into running on a first-gen 12” or 17” aluminium.

 

[theMarble]

I don’t think the TiBooks are rare in general. I’ve owned three of them and had no difficulty finding them. The 1 GHz version comes up rarely though.

From my point of view, they’re just as “rare” as any other 2 decade old computer. It was pretty easy to find my 867MHz model, which is the step-down base model version of the 1GHz. The last revision TiBook ever made.

OS 9 can be coaxed into running on a first-gen 12” or 17” aluminium.

Don’t forget the G4 minis. Has a faster CPU than both of the first gen AlBook’s and better graphics performance than the GeForce4 MX chips (at least the 420Go).

 

[VivienM]

I don’t think the TiBooks are rare in general. I’ve owned three of them and had no difficulty finding them. The 1 GHz version comes up rarely though.

How long ago was this? I have seen almost (of any configuration) none on eBay, at least not in reasonable condition, including a power adapter, etc.

And if I do a Facebook marketplace search on "PowerBook", generally all I'll see are aluminum ones. And maybe the occasional 68k 1xx series.

Compare that to, say, an MDD G4 - now those are plentiful. Or even iMac G4s...

 

[Amethyst1]

How long ago was this?

A couple of years ago, I admit.

 

[GMShadow]

The 1GHz is harder to find now because collectors have snapped most of them up, honestly. I've got a 500MHz myself and I'm fine with that.

 

[TheShortTimer]

The 1GHz is harder to find now because collectors have snapped most of them up...

I saw a Clamshell iBook G3 on Facebook Marketplace today for £33 GBP: complete with the mains adapter. Of course, it had already been sold to presumably an eagle-eyed collector who swooped on what was a steal - compared to the ridiculous eBay prices.

 

[GMShadow]

Not surprised. I think I paid maybe $50 shipped for my Indigo G3 about 10 years ago, which felt fine - and it was in good shape.

I'd never pay the prices they go for today.

 

[VivienM]

After a long time of on-and-off looking, I may have found a 2010 Mac Pro with 2x2.93GHz Xeons, 2x5770s, a 512 gig SSD and what looks like 8x8GB of original Apple RAM as described on the back sticker.

Time to make a High Sierra flash drive using my 2017 MacBook.

Will keep you guys posted after I meet the seller and pick it up.

 

[VivienM]

After a long time of on-and-off looking, I may have found a 2010 Mac Pro with 2x2.93GHz Xeons, 2x5770s, a 512 gig SSD and what looks like 8x8GB of original Apple RAM as described on the back sticker.

Time to make a High Sierra flash drive using my 2017 MacBook.

Will keep you guys posted after I meet the seller and pick it up.

Well, I have the machine. It will need a very good cleaning. But... it looks like it will be a struggle getting an OS on it. Drive is wiped and I've probably made it worse doing stupid things in Disk Utility. High Sierra, which I have on a flash drive, won't install because it needs a firmware update it won't install. And my 12-inch MacBook doesn't want to make a flash drive from a Sierra installer.

Also annoying, the monitor I'm using doesn't display anything until the OS boots. This machine is running stock Apple GPUs so that can't be it. It's so weird - the same (sketchy) monitor, using its HDMI port and a DVI->HDMI, is able to display the boot screens on my MDD (unlike some other monitors that don't support Apple's older video modes, I guess), but it won't using a mini-DP to mini-DP on this thing. Grrrreat.

Trying to burn a Snow Leopard disk now