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My PowerBook G4 12" smoothly driving a 1080p display in clamshell mode. It is making some fan noise at ~7500rpm, but staying cool and happy.

Browsing MR forums is comfortable in Leopard WebKit with some help from this adblocking hosts file, while listening to an ogg/vorbis radio stream with Audion and messing around with Pixelmator filters.

PowerPC still works just fine in 2020 :cool:
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hello, can you share the thing you used to get the black menu bar? appears to be different than the black leopard theme. ty =)
 
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Here is a modest setup I compiled after moving countries. I sure do miss my 17" PowerBook
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Fun! I did a similar thing when we had to move into an apartment for six months as part of an inter-state move for work. Attached is a photo of the "retro-corner" I put together. This was 2016.

You can see my then still fully operative G5 Quad, to the right, under the desk, and my Power Macintosh 7300/200, tucked under the desk, just the edge visible on the lower left.
 

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@awshucks, if you take your purchased music, burn it out to a CD or DVD, and then rip it back as MP3s using iTunes, you can listen to it on your "new" PBG4. I've done this myself... it works.

It's a bit of a pain - after you rip the tubes back, you have to open every track in iTunes and edit in all the necessary metadata - song title, artist, album, etc. It is slow and methodical, but it only has to be done once and then it is good forever more.
 
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@awshucks, if you take your purchased music, burn it out to a CD or DVD, and then rip it back as MP3s using iTunes, you can listen to it on your "new" PBG4. I've done this myself... it works.

It's a bit of a pain - after you rip the tubes back, you have to open every track in iTunes and edit in all the necessary metadata - song title, artist, album, etc. It is slow and methodical, but it only has to be done once and then it is good forever more.
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Good idea. I actually put one track on a CDRW burned with my M1 Mini and it still had authorization issues when I put the cd in the old PowerBook until I upgraded it to a newer version of iTunes that required me to upgrade to 10.4.6 (was on 10.4).

The disc drive in the iMac was unfortunately damaged when I got it, though. Lesson learned - don't buy fragile Macs from CA considering I live in GA, since the USPS took it on a 2-week joyride with the box being ripped open and in poor condition. Only way I'm able to transfer stuff is to put the 12" G4 into TDM and access its contents on the iMac, or use a flash drive. Ah yes, good old USB 1.1 speeds.
 
@awshucks, I wouldn't write off buying Macs from other states quite so quickly. I have purchased literally a dozen or more vintage computers over the years, one from as far away as Italy, and have had great luck with the purchases.

It is all about the packing prior to shipping. Well done, I have even had large 17" monitors come through undamaged and fully operational.

Don't let one bad experience eliminate non-local purchases!
 
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It is all about the packing prior to shipping. Well done, I have even had large 17" monitors come through undamaged and fully operational.
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I do think the packing could have been better.
Believe it or not instead of bubble wrap there was a U-Haul furniture protection blanket, as well as a few bubble mailers. The iMac was visible through the box.
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I had a road trip in southern parts of my country, and was pickin up an iMac G4 17". Well the seller had some other Apples to offer, and in pretty much great condition too. Had to buy the G4 cube, a spare one to my existing one. Had to buy the Studio 17" with package, just to complete my selection of this era monitors. 15" Studio, 17" Studio, 22" Cinema Dispaly, 23" Cinema HD Display. And a broken 20" too packaged somewhere in my house, if it was not stolen 6 years ago then we had a catastrofous storage robbering incident at my previous apartment.

The Cube came in original box and packaging with speakers, kbd etc, and a working power supply. All equipmnet were demonstrated as working at premises of the seller. Great guy, got to give respect for taking this good care of his old stuff.

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Ok he had a Mac Plus too, see in first pic. It was in perfectly working order, so of course I took that with me too. 20SC and kbd and mouse too. No packaging though, and off-topic here because no power-PC.
 
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I had a road trip in southern parts of my country, and was pickin up an iMac G4 17". Well the seller had some other Apples to offer, and in pretty much great condition too. Had to buy the G4 cube, a spare one to my existing one. Had to buy the Studio 17" with package, just to complete my selection of this era monitors. 15" Studio, 17" Studio, 22" Cinema Dispaly, 23" Cinema HD Display. And a broken 20" too packaged somewhere in my house, if it was not stolen 6 years ago then we had a catastrofous storage robbering incident at my previous apartment.

The Cube came in original box and packaging with speakers, kbd etc, and a working power supply. All equipmnet were demonstrated as working at premises of the seller. Great guy, got to give respect for taking this good care of his old stuff.

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Ok he had a Mac Plus too, see in first pic. It was in perfectly working order, so of course I took that with me too. 20SC and kbd and mouse too. No packaging though, and off-topic here because no power-PC.
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Wow, what a haul!
 
Well it's forbidden to do a post about a different approach within a timeline set-up, it seems. It's awkward.
 
Well, it's propapbly for a reason. To not to not to. Or Something. I don't know.
Propably this is gonna get cancelled too.
 
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