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Nice newer PPC finds! — #7

Turns out that the iMac G5 is 1.8GHz/1GB RAM/160GB HD/CD-RW with a 128MB Radeon 9600 graphics card and Leopard Server. The G4 was 933MHz/512MB/60GB/Combo Drive So sadly these are…
68kMLA PowerPC by coius Tue, 10 Nov 2009 - 05:01

Nice newer PPC finds! — #6

The iMac sounds good, but I reckon that you should offer less for the 933Mhz G4 (Quicksilver?). A dualie G4 is still good for "everyday" use but a single G4 933Mhz won't cut it, o…
68kMLA PowerPC by Byrd Mon, 9 Nov 2009 - 21:47

Nice newer PPC finds! — #5

Turns out that the iMac G5 is 1.8GHz/1GB RAM/160GB HD/CD-RW with a 128MB Radeon 9600 graphics card and Leopard Server. The G4 was 933MHz/512MB/60GB/Combo Drive So sadly these are…
68kMLA PowerPC by Strimkind Mon, 9 Nov 2009 - 20:50

Nice newer PPC finds! — #3

Turns out that the iMac G5 is 1.8GHz/1GB RAM/160GB HD/CD-RW with a 128MB Radeon 9600 graphics card and Leopard Server. The G4 was 933MHz/512MB/60GB/Combo Drive So sadly these are…
68kMLA PowerPC by hilga007 Mon, 9 Nov 2009 - 19:35

Nice newer PPC finds! — #2

The dual G4 sounds like a great deal if it works and is complete. I am waiting for G4's to be about worthless and then snag one or two for the collection (os 9.x native booting mod…
68kMLA PowerPC by Unknown_K Mon, 9 Nov 2009 - 07:18

Nice newer PPC finds! — #1

Its not exactly a free conquest, but I think the deals on these finds is pretty good! I'm picking up a Dual 1.25GHz G4 + 17" LCD for $50 tomorrow and a 1.8GHz 20" iMac G5 (without …
68kMLA PowerPC by hilga007 Mon, 9 Nov 2009 - 04:13

iBook Graphite SE 466MHZ! — #3

Well here are the Highlights of this little Clammy. Screen is nice and bright -HD is very loud compared to my other gray clam's original HD. It works fine though. -I put the OS …
68kMLA PowerPC by Mars478 Thu, 5 Nov 2009 - 01:57

iBook Graphite SE 466MHZ! — #1

Got this from school. Joins my other 2 Clams. It's the FireWire model, I installed OS X Server on it before as a fun project and it's still on there More Pics to come.
68kMLA PowerPC by Mars478 Wed, 4 Nov 2009 - 19:54

Beige G3 Conquest — #18

wait, not mb, 1.25 gb of ram now leopard on 1.25mb of ram, THATS impossible
68kMLA PowerPC by geeko Tue, 3 Nov 2009 - 23:53

Beige G3 Conquest — #17

i got my imac g4 to boot leopard w/ only 256mb of ram! that is so cool! if only leopard would boot on my g4 gb ethernet w/ 1.25mb ram... (i've tried in target disk mode, kernel pa…
68kMLA PowerPC by geeko Tue, 3 Nov 2009 - 23:30

Beige G3 Conquest — #16

Booting from a DVD may be different because there is no writable swap file on the startup disk. So install discs may not use virtual memory at all, being that there isn't necessar…
68kMLA PowerPC by Dennis Nedry Tue, 3 Nov 2009 - 22:38

pcmcia ixmicro road rocket — #4

Zoomed Video is for video *in*put - it's a direct pipe into the GPU, bypassing the rest of the computer, and allowing video to be displayed on the LCD. The Road Rocket is a second…
68kMLA PowerPC by Bunsen Tue, 3 Nov 2009 - 12:53

Beige G3 Conquest — #15

as far as i know, leopard will only boot (at least from the dvd) w/ 512mb of ram. i got my emac for noting b/c the people before me were trying to make it boot a leopard dvd w/ onl…
68kMLA PowerPC by geeko Tue, 3 Nov 2009 - 11:25

pcmcia ixmicro road rocket — #3

The G3s have "Zoomed Video" connections on one PCMCIA slot, whatever that is. Normally it's for a DVD decoder card. :scrambled:
68kMLA PowerPC by H3NRY Tue, 3 Nov 2009 - 08:12

Beige G3 Conquest — #14

Back in 2006 when the 128MB DIMM I had in my iMac died, I booted it once or twice with the original factory 32MB of RAM. It took somewhere around 15 minutes for Jaguar to boot, and…
68kMLA PowerPC by LCGuy Tue, 3 Nov 2009 - 08:06

Beige G3 Conquest — #13

Haven't played with it yet. No space on the bench to set it up. Leopard. Now there's a thought. I have a pre-loved 10.5 DVD, but I don't think the machine has the RAM. It'd be …
68kMLA PowerPC by Dennis Nedry Tue, 3 Nov 2009 - 04:37

Beige G3 Conquest — #12

Haven't played with it yet. No space on the bench to set it up. Leopard. Now there's a thought. I have a pre-loved 10.5 DVD, but I don't think the machine has the RAM. It'd be…
68kMLA PowerPC by AusNick Mon, 2 Nov 2009 - 11:33

Beige G3 Conquest — #11

Did you end up getting it to boot? How's the performance with the G4 upgrade? I know there have been reports of people successfully installing 10.5 on the beiges with G4 upgrades!…
68kMLA PowerPC by hilga007 Mon, 2 Nov 2009 - 06:30

Scored a perfect Powerbook — #10

I've noticed that there seems to be ALOT of ebay sellers with powerbook g4's that were used as only desktops. Click to expand... I think there's a lot of people in general, Mac…
68kMLA PowerPC by Mike Richardson Mon, 2 Nov 2009 - 03:00

Scored a perfect Powerbook — #8

I've noticed that there seems to be ALOT of ebay sellers with powerbook g4's that were used as only desktops.
68kMLA PowerPC by Christopher Sat, 31 Oct 2009 - 23:55

Scored a perfect Powerbook — #7

Congrats in the Al-PB, an excellent machine! May you and the PowerBook enjoy "peace and long life" I enjoy the 1701A bit in the username
68kMLA PowerPC by Buickguy Sat, 31 Oct 2009 - 22:15

Scored a perfect Powerbook — #6

The 17" is portable... I bring it places, I had a 15" and same thing it portable. The 12" are nice but a bit too small for me. now there was a HP with, I believe a 21 inch screen…
68kMLA PowerPC by MacManiac1701A Sat, 31 Oct 2009 - 16:00
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