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"Vintage" Mac Club: G4's and Earlier in Action!!
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Yum. I know what my next Mac is going to be! The seem to have gotten a lot cheaper on eBay.
(Currently: iBook G4 1.33GHz, at the technophobe house. There's really no point in using a decent computer there. What a waste.)
(Currently: iBook G4 1.33GHz, at the technophobe house. There's really no point in using a decent computer there. What a waste.)
yea it runs quite rough. i have OS9 on there too. i was trying to get my wirless USB adapter to work but it only runs on 10.3+
^^ I run .4.11 on my mine. With the RAM maxed at 1 GB it's fairly decent.
I'd clone it on from one of your others.
I'd clone it on from one of your others.
Any tips on how to do that? I have the Tiger DVD for my MacBook Pro...if i put in a DVD drive in the G3 would i be able to install it? And do i have to do anything to put in a GB of RAM? I havn't messed with it other than installing OSX. I had the CD version with my iBook.
it would be easier to boot the G3 into target disk mode (hold T on startup), connect it via firewire to the MB pro, and use the DVD drive on the pro to install the system onto your B & W, An external firewire DVD burner would work too. You need a retail version of the 10.4 disk, OR a PPC running 10.4 and carbon copy cloner to clone the system onto the G3
I've seen that picture around the forums many times, and I can't get over how great the various items look together. 
Oh, and you seem to have my mousepad.
Oh, and you seem to have my mousepad.
couldget Mac os 10.3 on there easy and with 512MB or more ram 10.4 will run fine you will just need to ditch the Rage 128 16MBgraphics for somthing like the Radeon pci Mac or Radeon 9000 pci mac
the stock 16 mb card is fine for 10.4.
I'm sure it is not intended to be a gaming rig.
Hell, the 8 mb card in my TiBook even runs 10.5 fine.
Off topic, but might I ask why you have 32GB RAM?
federal grant money had to be spent on something
the computer is hooked to a $150,000 microscope. Digital images (12 MP) captured at up to 1000 FPS are stored in RAM until image capture is completed, at which time they are written to the disk.
Sounds like what my dad does, actually.
Good thing I'm not a chip off the old block.. I hate science, for some reason.
Good thing I'm not a chip off the old block.. I hate science, for some reason.
Too lazy to bust out the camera, but here's some old ones.
My main workhorse, 12" iBook G4 1.33 GHz. (Specs on my sig)
And my 12" iBook G3 300 MHz. 160 MB RAM, 3 GB HDD, 10.3.9 It was used as my main machine for about a month after my mini died and I was looking for replacment (Which ended up being my G4.)
I'm currently looking for a nice 350 MHz PowerMac G3, to replace my nearly dead iBook G3 800 MHz as my desktop mac. (The thing has the infamous logic board problem, the pinched inverter cable problem, the speaker click problem, and on top of that, a dying hard drive. It's time for it to go.)
My main workhorse, 12" iBook G4 1.33 GHz. (Specs on my sig)
And my 12" iBook G3 300 MHz. 160 MB RAM, 3 GB HDD, 10.3.9 It was used as my main machine for about a month after my mini died and I was looking for replacment (Which ended up being my G4.)
I'm currently looking for a nice 350 MHz PowerMac G3, to replace my nearly dead iBook G3 800 MHz as my desktop mac. (The thing has the infamous logic board problem, the pinched inverter cable problem, the speaker click problem, and on top of that, a dying hard drive. It's time for it to go.)
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