Got a Sawtooth for free!

#1 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 - 14:13

My cousin, who works in the graphics design business, gave me a nice Sawtooth a few days ago.

It has 768 MB RAM, a 30 GB HDD, 2 graphics cards (1 AGP and 1 PCI) as well as a ZIP drive.

I've just installed 10.4 on it, and it runs great! I may Xpostfacto leopard into a 2nd partition just for fun, but I think it will be a bit slow.

I also just scored a PowerMac 6100 (see own thread)

#2 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 - 15:05

Nice conquests!

#3 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 - 20:08

I got my sawtooth for free too!

they are a great machine!

(Mac OS X Server 1.2 runs quite well

)

#4 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 - 20:19

They are nice looking machines. I got mine for a little over shipping and I am waiting for a dual processor capable motherboard to arrive in the mail to use a dual G4-500 CPU. The G4's from the Sawtooth up to the Quicksilvers are very nice looking and functional machines.

#5 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 - 20:22

Nice, I'm hoping to get a sawtooth soon, as I have never had a G4 system.

#6 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 - 20:34

fyi, xpostfacto will not work w/ leopard (last i heard). i used a open firmware "hack" to make it think it had a fast enough processor, and everything installed just fine. google to find the hack, it is pressty easy, even if you have little experience.

#7 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 - 20:42

What would be the point of running a very CPU/GPU intensive OS on such an old machine? OSX 10.3/10.4 or even OS 9.2.2 would be a better choice.

#8 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 - 13:00

Yes, I know about the OF hack, as I have done it before on the iMac Lamp

Maybe I will try it, but as you said, it is a bit too CPU/GPU intensive for this machine.