Since the 68k topic came up can someone give me the rundown on the Powerbook 520? I'm watching one on ebay. Were they considered good in their day? Decent to play around with or complete garbage?
They have serious hinge issues. I wouldn't buy it.
Since the 68k topic came up can someone give me the rundown on the Powerbook 520? I'm watching one on ebay. Were they considered good in their day? Decent to play around with or complete garbage?
Just one question...
I can do everything work-related with my PowerBook (essentially email, word documents, some forums) but for media I usually cast netflix from my smartphone to my Chromecast. Is this not allowed during the challenge? Might need to get back to DVDs then...
Is it okay if I use my TiVo? The old ones existed in PowerPC era
Please, I would love if the Challenge's starter has an answer for these two questions.
My machine will be a 15" PowerBook G4/1.25GHz, Mac OS 9. Yes, OS 9 booting on an Aluminium PowerBook is now possible and it literally flies...
Well, the previous challenges encouraged participants to limit their use of post PowerPC tech as much as possible. For instance, many tried to get youtube to work on their PowerPC machine instead of externalizing it to their smartphones.
It is not an iron rule, but more a measurement of how much you are committed to this challenge. I think most of people trying to abide by the spirit of the challenge would say no, you can't, but the letter leaves you some room to adapt the challenge to your wishes.
Mac OS9Lives disk? Does everything work?
Out of curiosity why isn't the quad running 10.5?Powermac G5 quad running 10.4 and a 1.67 Powerbook G4 running 10.5.
In fact I have already begun with the challenge since I wrote my first post here.
My dialy routine this month is working in the morning and then studying for my exams in the afternoon... well it's been two weeks transcribing my handwritten notes in Word 2001 and everything went great. As browsing the net is almost impossible (also, the PB has no WiFi under OS 9) I am more focused than before...
Do you have ethernet access? What browser are you using?
No. We are connecting to all sorts of remote and local computers that may be faster or slower.Is it cheating if you SSH into a faster machine?
@Kliee: Just noticed you didn't have the specs of my machine(s) up on the first post, my mistake! I'll be running G4s on 10.5 and 10.4, and G3s running 10.4 during the challenge primarily. As well as some OS 9 for some random tasks.Glad to see this back again.
I'll be doing Basic, with some dabbling in Mac OS 9 during the week! I'm planning to use any of my PowerPC Macs that I feel like, but notably this time around, my newest 12" PowerBook G4 seems to be up to the tasks lately to help with internet duties. My personal goal for this time is to take some camcorder footage of my adventures during the week, and edit the video on one of these PowerPCs with iMovie.
Added.Count me in! Mainly with:
working on project machine:
- PowerMac G5 2.5 Quad 10.5
- PowerBook G4 1.5 12" 10.5
And occasionally with:
- iBook G3 600 12" 10.4 (recent trash rescue)
- PowerBook G4 1.0 Ti 10.5
- iMac G4 800 17" 10.5
- PowerBook Pismo 550 10.5
- Power Macintosh 9500 10.5
- PowerBook 520c 8.1
- Macintosh Classic 7.5
Nice to save this little iBook from the trash. I, myself, like to pick non working ones or some in very bad condition from ebay for cheap and making them run again. My main G3 at the moment is almost the same as yours. A 500 Mhz iBook someone tried to, literally, cut open. Needed a few parts swapped, but now runs well with Debian on it .
A PM9500 running 10.5? Curious about how bearable is the slowness . Which upgrade card did you use?
Same for the PowerBook Pismo.
I have an idea... a year long challenge! Do the opposite and use your most powerful PowerPC for a year. Then report all findings, or report as you go.
I would use my 1.3GHz Gigabit Ethernet machine for that.
Maybe first we should start with a month...
However no Netflix or HBO = no party. I couldn't stand a year...