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It's been running a little rough as of late. When I bought the device back in 2012 you wouldn't have been able to tell it was 7 years old. Very smooth. I suspect the hard drive is on it's last legs. Last night I did some serious maintenance to it, free'd up a bunch of space, deleted an old user account, ran pretty much every script in IceClean and it seems to have regained that umph it had. Leopard Webkit is running as fast as my C2D hack..



Perhaps try to wipe the drive and freshly reload. The results may surprise you.
 
This is what I have going right now on my PowerBook G4 right now. Obviously the Yosemite wallpaper. I keep my dock fairly clean, with only the apps I use on a daily basis.

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After undergoing surgery yesterday, my 1.67 GHz PowerBook G4 15" is up and running again.

Are you sticking with an older version of iTunes for a reason, or have you just not upgraded yet? By the way, nice background!
 
Are you sticking with an older version of iTunes for a reason, or have you just not upgraded yet? By the way, nice background!

iTunes 10.6.3 is actually on there but I never opened it yet so the icon has not updated. I tend to use Spotify for streaming so I do not need to waste space on my PowerBook with the library of music. I mainly use that machine for forums and coding.
 
iTunes 10.6.3 is actually on there but I never opened it yet so the icon has not updated. I tend to use Spotify for streaming so I do not need to waste space on my PowerBook with the library of music. I mainly use that machine for forums and coding.

I use Spotify for all my music needs as well. I just really hope Spotify doesn't pull the plug on PowerPC support any time soon.
 
Since it is all server based, they could. I know Spotify Radio does not work on the PPC compatible client anymore.

I have enough faith in this community, that if Spotify chooses to do such a thing, the community will find a workaround.
 
Going with an OS X'ish look with XFCE to attract a little less attention when out and about. Pic is from the J-Class race at Menorca this May.
 

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My desktop

I have several main computers, which isn't the best habit, but here is the dual-screen set-up on my PowerMac G5. First off, I keep a few applications open all the time, which sit in their spaces on the left screen (such as Text Edit, iChat, Stickies, etc.). [iChat hidden for privacy reasons]. If I am multitasking between using the internet and typing, say, an essay, I'll move my Webkit window over to the left screen.

On the left screen, I have this 'G5' wallpaper which I found online... not sure who made it. On the main screen is a picture of part of my Mac collection.

My dock is pretty full---Besides extra applications, I usually keep Mail, iChat, web browser, Text Edit, Pages, iTunes, YouView, Preview, Dictionary, Calc, Disk Utility, Sys Prefs, Terminal, and Activity Monitor on my dock.

I still like traditional fullscreen monitors better than widescreen ones, as far as MOST things go.

:)

Just in case anyone was wondering, the left screen is an older 15" Dell Ultrasharp and the main screen is a 17" Apple Studio Display that was from my 2003 (FW-400) MDD.
 
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My Mac Pro at work…

Yes, I know, this is a PowerPC thread, but I have used all of these at one time on my PowerPC Macs and the Quicksilver at home has two out of the three already so that's how I'm justifying this. :D

Note: For the eagle eyed, the app I took the screenshot in had no open windows so it made it easy to hide all the other apps from there and grab the screens. If you care to know, IP Messenger is a PowerPC/Intel/Windows app for messaging. Generally works on a LAN. It's one of the first pieces of software I installed around here in 2004 and has allowed us all to message each other internally.

I did NOT use any IM apps (iChat, Skype, Yahoo Messenger, etc) because that would have required creating accounts. IP Messenger simply identifys you by IP address/machine/user account. You can label it though so it's more user friendly.

Just in case anyone was wondering what that app is.
 

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OK, so the Quicksilver now…
 

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I didn't really like XFCE, so I'm back to using spectrwm full time, now with a new background: the William Fife designed Mariquita (foreground) racing Nathanael Herreshoff's Mariette during one of the Pendennis Cup races.
 

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This is my current desktop... using wall saver and marine aquarium. It moves around. It runs like a beauty on my g5. :)
 
Plain Jane, but that's the way, uh huh, uh huh, I like it... uh huh, uh huh.
 

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