I was looking on craigslist today and saw a PM G5 2.3GHZ 2004 model and the guy wanted 225.00 B/C he said it was shutting down programs by itself, programs not the OS or the hardwa…
The thing about 8 GB is - theoretically you can install onto a single partition 120 GB drive using another Mac, then move it to the target Mac and it will boot. However, the instan…
68kMLAPowerPCby Mike RichardsonMon, 21 Sep 2009 - 00:21
I think even if you are installing onto the first 8GB, thats not enough - as Mike said, the drive should be partitioned, with the first partition being no bigger than say, 7.7GB. I…
I did a search, but I couldn't really find the information I needed.
I don't really know a lot about video cards... bear with me.
I have a Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro Atlantis card …
None of that matters. The OS must be on the first 8 GB, but really it's like 7.45 GB due to conversion issues, so everyone says 7 GB just to be safe. Repartition the drive into "Bo…
68kMLAPowerPCby Mike RichardsonSun, 20 Sep 2009 - 01:01
but the only thing is that this G3 AIO used to install 10.2 natively... not anymore... and I cannot figure it out...
I was running Xpostfacto with 10.3.9 then I wiped the HDD and …
Don't know why you never saw that message before, but it's true - the beige G3s need to have OS X installed in the first 8GB of the drive.
Re-partition the drive into two partitio…
since doing a cpu upgrade to my powermac G3 AIO.... I was going to sell it but decided to keep it. I formatted the drive, zeroed out all data... installed OS 9.2.2 then went to ins…
Where can I download it (it looks like it's freeware, all I could find is the OS 8 version from Mac Hut)? It would be useful to strip useless PowerPC code from FAT binaries on my L…
Oh yeah...I've wondered about the same thing myself. I remember back in the mid 1990's I used to use a program called "I Love Native!" to strip useless PowerPC code from FAT binari…
Monolingual.app will remove Intel or PPC code as well as unwanted languages.
From the terminal, ditto will also remove an architecture. For example to thin iTunes:
• cd /Applicat…
While the amount of PC related stuff is annoying, instead of creating a lounge thread for each one, perhaps a sticky thread for the whole she-bang and we can get back to talking ab…
you need the server verson to do that, not the client, but for 10.5 server is hard to find,I would just get a cheap mini g4 or intell and slap on 10.5 server or get a intell mini a…
This is the cheapest G5 I could find that didn't say Parts or Repair on it:
http://cgi.ebay.com/power-pc-g5_W0QQitemZ250494997439QQcmdZViewItemQQptZApple_Desktops?hash=item3a52aa5…
68kMLAPowerPCby Mike RichardsonSat, 12 Sep 2009 - 05:24
It's like a used car. Someone may replace the engine and all major support parts costing the person 5 grand in parts. But the car's only worth maybe 3 grand. This happens all the t…
to a realist it is, to mac fanatic its not, funny things about mac's I guess
whats going to be interesting is when these mactels start hitting vintage, that should even out the pl…
You'd be lucky to get $700. Honestly, you're insane to think you'll get more, or the buyer is a sucker. They're almost vintage. You never get your investment back with upgrades, an…
68kMLAPowerPCby Mike RichardsonSat, 12 Sep 2009 - 04:57
well it isn't vintage yet... it is still a very capable machine and the difference from 2.0GHZ to 2.3 is not much, only 300MHZ anyways... and with 16 gb ram this thing doesn't stut…
You'd be lucky to get $700. Honestly, you're insane to think you'll get more, or the buyer is a sucker. They're almost vintage. You never get your investment back with upgrades, an…
What if one person wants to pay $500 and another person offers $1500? Is the machine worth $500 or $1500?
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Obviously, it's worth two different prices to two d…
The memory alone costs about $250 new on Dealram.
He also said "1.4 TB HDD's" which I assume means two of them (and probably 1.5 TB as I've never seen 1.4 TB). Those are over $100 …
68kMLAPowerPCby Mike RichardsonFri, 11 Sep 2009 - 19:51
A system, or any item, is worth however much someone wants to pay for it. If someone pays $1500, then it is worth $1500. If someone would only pay $500, then it is worth $500. It i…
The memory alone costs about $250 new on Dealram.
He also said "1.4 TB HDD's" which I assume means two of them (and probably 1.5 TB as I've never seen 1.4 TB). Those are over $100 …
My feeling is that every computer will get obsolete.
You pay 3K 2.5 yr's later it's worth 1.5K or whatever...
if you got it at a good price and you are happy with it, that's all…