Post Your PowerPC Setup

[Lil Chillbil]

What kind of desk is that? I'm thinking of getting one and not sure if I want a larger one for all my Macs or just something small. But that one may look perfect.

its not my pic, lol I don't really come here all that often since i'm not really a mac guy anymore. Still come back from time to time when the stars align and Gotfrey posts some good mac video that makes my ebay finger itch to pick up a G5 quad again.

 

[eyoungren]

At home with the new Quicksilver (and my 1.67Ghz 17" PowerBook G4 DLSD). Desktop pictures on the QS have since changed.

Pic on the left monitor is part of my customizations of TenFourFox.

 

[TacticalDesire]

At home with the new Quicksilver (and my 1.67Ghz 17" PowerBook G4 DLSD). Desktop pictures on the QS have since changed.

Pic on the left monitor is part of my customizations of TenFourFox.

Is that your kitchen?

 

[eyoungren]

Is that your kitchen?

Nope, that's the dining room. The kitchen is to the right.

Perhaps this will help visualization. Behind me is the front room.

 

[jrsx]

Mine's pretty simple:

 

[KeegM480]

Here is my iMac G4, G3, and PowerMac G5 (Yes my MacBook Pro is pictured no its not a PowerPC, just ignore it )

Hopefully Apple TV soon but besides that here it is! Got a Nikon on Black Friday (have been waiting to post updated pics until I got it) My desk has been moved to the other side of my room so I can have the router by the computers. Got an Elago stand for my iPhone which is now pictured!

20" Cinema Display (connected to a PowerMac G5)
17" iMac G4
iMac G3 Graphite
46" RCA TV (connected to the MacBook Pro and my Xbox 360)
Nikon L320

 

[jrsx]

Does the iMac G4 work or is it just off in the pic?

 

[SirFoxx]

Does this count? It has a 60mhz PPC PDS card running it at the moment! I've even seen a guide on how to upgrade this card so it'll run at a whopping 100mhz!!

 

[g4manimac]

Nope, that's the dining room. The kitchen is to the right.

Perhaps this will help visualization. Behind me is the front room.

So is that you thats into the glassware? Back in the day I made thousands buying at yard sales for a few bucks and selling upwards of $100+ on ebay

Mcoy planters
Colonial homestead
depression glass to name a few.....niche market but in the late 90's was booming

 

[eyoungren]

So is that you thats into the glassware? Back in the day I made thousands buying at yard sales for a few bucks and selling upwards of $100+ on ebay

Mcoy planters
Colonial homestead
depression glass to name a few.....niche market but in the late 90's was booming

LOL! No, no, no!

Any glassware, crockery, ceramic, et al. would be my wife's domain. I can appreciate glassware (I'm a compulsive saver of stuff you get in glass jars at the grocery store, not that anyone would consider that glassware I'm sure) but I'm not a collector.

Right now my wife has been avidly pursuing buffalo china. The kind of everyday china you'd find on trains and ships and stuff back in the day. That stuff was (is) bulletproof, not the typical fine china you think of when you say "china".

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Does this count? It has a 60mhz PPC PDS card running it at the moment! I've even seen a guide on how to upgrade this card so it'll run at a whopping 100mhz!!

Counts for me! Those were cool Macs!

 

[KeegM480]

Does the iMac G4 work or is it just off in the pic?

It works I just don't use it much, the computer for some reason will shut it self off when I leave it on the screensaver, trying to find a good spot for it, but for now it sits there.

 

[ybz90]

Making a trip to my old home for the first time in nearly a year and will definitely pick up my trusty old PowerBook G4. Missed that damn thing, if only to play EV Nova.

 

[nimraynn]

This is my man cave at the moment

eMac "Northern Lights"
1GHz PowerPC G4
512MB RAM
ATI Radeon 7500
80GB HDD
Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11

iMac G4 17"
1GHz PowerPC G4
768MB RAM
nVidia GeForce 4 MX
80GB HDD
Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11

On the right we have...

PowerMac G5
Dual 2.0GHz PowerPC G5
8GB RAM
nVidia GeForce FX200, HP L1908w monitor, 1440x900
2x 160GB HDD
Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8

And on the left we have...

Asus M4A87TD EVO motherboard
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition 3.2GHz
8GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM
Gigabyte nVidia GeForce GTX560 1GB OC, LG Flatron E2350VR-SN 23" monitor, 1920x1080
1.5TB HDD, 750GB HDD, 120GB HDD
Corsair GS600 power supply
Coolermaster Elite 330 case
Windows 7 x64 SP1

 

[ResPublica]

Although I love these old Macs, I don't really see the point of having more than one computer on a desk. Don't you need to make room for books and documents? or is that just me as a student...

 

[nimraynn]

Although I love these old Macs, I don't really see the point of having more than one computer on a desk. Don't you need to make room for books and documents? or is that just me as a student...

I don't normally have much in the way of books or documents actually out on my desk. I have two bookcases just out of shot on the right and chest of drawers just out of shot on the left where most of that stuff goes.

These are just got messing around with more than anything. The PC is my main computer, but I've been messing around with the Mac's quite a lot recently

 

[iDutchman]

not in use but works flawlessly.

17" 1Ghz iMac G4
2GB RAM
80GB HD

 

[eyoungren]

not in use but works flawlessly.

17" 1Ghz iMac G4
2GB RAM
80GB HD

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I don't know why, but the wine glass next to it seems appropriate. Fine wine maybe?

 

[Goftrey]

I don't know why, but the wine glass next to it seems appropriate. Fine wine maybe?

I agree. I guess it goes with the whole transparency thing well.

 

[ResPublica]

I don't know why, but the wine glass next to it seems appropriate. Fine wine maybe?

both are stylish!

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I don't normally have much in the way of books or documents actually out on my desk. I have two bookcases just out of shot on the right and chest of drawers just out of shot on the left where most of that stuff goes.

These are just got messing around with more than anything. The PC is my main computer, but I've been messing around with the Mac's quite a lot recently

OK, it's what works best for you that matters.
I'd be a bit concerned about those CRT-monitors. I see you have an eMac, those are relatively modern, but some folks have iMacs from around 1999, and I wonder how safe they remain after all those years, without mentioning the huge power consumption.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

PPC Sandwich

Recently posted it in the "Post Your Mac Setup" thread, but it belongs here, too...

iMac G4 on one end, Power Mac G4 Cube on the other. With my modern Intel in the middle.

 

[Pkupman57]

I posted in the "post your mac set up post".. but figured since I have a couple of PPCs now, Id post in here too. The 2.3 and 1.8 systems on the right are fully functional systems. The 2.5 on the left was DOA, so I turned it into a "glorified plug strip"
Got these over the course of the last week, all for less than $200, and two of them came with the original (serial # matching) boxes and packing materials and such.

 

[gavinstubbs09]

The first pic is my collection from this past spring, and the second is my collection I had in the summer (iMac G5 1.6GHz, Mac mini G4 1.33GHz, B&W G3, PMG5 dual 2GHz) and of course the 2 intel macs. The third picture was taken last weekend with 3 intels and 3 PPC. As much as I love my Intel machines, the PPC ones take a spot in my heart!

 

[Graveyard]

My room...

Here are the PPC machines i have in my room right now and that are fully functional. I also have a few others in the attic, especially two Dual G5 machines that have a few problems at the moment and since i don't have the time to get to them, they'll have to wait until the spring.

 

[macnerd93]

Some of my PowerPC Macs

So firstly apologies for grainy image quality, they were taken on my 5S and not my DSLR.

First PowerPC Mac pictured is my 2002 17'' 800MHz iMac G4 currently running Mac OS X Tiger. I got this back in september for a steal of £29.99, at that price I couldn't resist. I am thinking about changing and moving my desk before christmas we shall see.

Second image is of my 2004 Dual Processor 1.8GHz Power Mac G5 running Leopard. This has a couple of 500GB hard drives, 3GB RAM and is my content storage system. I have hundreds of Gigabytes worth of rowing training videos shot from my Go Pro (some not currently required) so I use this machine to backup and store the old videos and it works extremely well for this.

The eMac has a 250GB hard drive and I keep a backup of my iTunes Library just incase

 

[JoeG4]

The funny thing about the PowerMac G5s is I used to think that at full blast, they were the noisiest desktops ever. The growl they make when you turn them on is a sorta menacing rawr.

My current desktop makes the G5 sound like a kitten purring. Still, I like the quiet vroom the g5s do when you turn them on. I wonder how the Mac Pro will sound.

That said, aesthetic wise I think the G5, the iMac G4, and the g4 cube are my favorite oldschool macs. Mmm. Looking at the Mac Pro I'm kinda glad to see they've still got it. It picked up a lot from the iMac G4. lol.