I purchased a couple dozen from Indonesia or somewhere for next to nothing, so I am good.

Snow Leopard.

Yeah these G4s and G5s are going to drop like rocks when the newbs figure out they cannot install SL on it. Click to expand... Second Life?

Yeah these G4s and G5s are going to drop like rocks when the newbs figure out they cannot install SL on it.

I had a chance to grab a FW800 single 1ghz machine for $119 not long ago. That's less than I paid for my 533mhz DA a few years ago. I let it go because the shipping would have been…

I got ~15 coin cell holders going to waste if anyone wants me to drop one in the post

I have used those kinds of batteries and holders on old PCs before, they work fine but all eventually leak. So I retrofitted quite a few machines to use coin type batteries (PCs) a…

I had a chance to grab a FW800 single 1ghz machine for $119 not long ago. That's less than I paid for my 533mhz DA a few years ago. I let it go because the shipping would have been…

Mine reports unknown processor at 1000mhz. :lol:

I wanted to do something like that but don't know how. Would I have to solder the wires to the existing battery socket? If I could attach the wires without soldering, that would be…

I just got my G5 a few months ago. It's a single 1.8 Ghz. I got it for $125 to replace my aging G4 Digital Audio 733. The SATA card in my G4 wouldn't allow the system to sleep prop…

I don't have a G5 yet, but I hope to within the year. The main thing which kept me away from the was reliability, many more G5 PSUs, boards, and processors cooked themselves to de…

Ah, thanks. It's got the normal 540c chime. Oh well... Thanks for your help though!

Determine by startup chime. If it has a 540 chime, it is 68k. If it has a 500/PPC chime, it is PowerPC. http://mactracker.dreamhosters.com/

Nope, it doesn't have graphing calculator installed. Once I can get my PC and my 540c to play nice, though, I'll see if I can find a utility to tell me what processor is installed.…

As I suspected, the G4 (Sonnet Crescendo G4 800/1M) was only running at 450MHz, but after running the Sonnet enabler scrounged from another machine it now runs at 800. Much nicer,…

I've been replacing the 1/2 AA batteries with a two AA or two AAA battery holder held on with either double sided foam tape or hard locking tape for ages, like so: { "ligh…

Where did you get the 10 pack from? I leave batteries in the units I use once in a while, but anything put into long term storage has the battery removed.

Do you have Graphing Calculator installed? If so, it will give an error when you open it on a 68k Mac. "Sorry, Requires Power Macintosh" or something to that effect.

Even 720p is pushing it for a G4.

System Profiler is notorious for miscomputing CPU speeds for third-party cards. I'd run Metronome (you can download it from Sonnet) to get the card's actual speed.

Here's a link to a site still selling the replacement cases. $449 is certainly an optimistic starting price on that auction. *shrug* People are funny enough that I wouldn't bet ag…

Wow! That's a good price! Do you leave all of your systems setup and plugged in? If not, I wouldn't bother leaving a battery in them anyway. I've lost several computers to expl…

PowerLogix made some replacement G4 cube cases that came in were black, white and I believe silver.

When I put the 1ghz G4 in my 7500 it wouldn't power up at first. It's a good thing I got an instruction manual because in the manual it says when you remove the old CPU you have to…