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mewrox99 · **Post subject:** PowerMac G4 **Posted:** Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:24 am

I won an auction for a PowerMac G4 (two new comps. in one week

)

Specs: 700Mhz PPC G4
1.0GB Ram
10Gb HDD
Superdrive
AGP Graphics

It's the QuickSilver model. I'll be picking it up tomorrow. Anyone got any ideas on what to use it for, and how will I hack leopard to run on it. And lastly will the early pre-betas of OS X work on it

Whistler_fan · **Post subject:** Re: PowerMac G4 **Posted:** Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:48 am

As far i know is Tiger the last OS X that supported the PPC.

mewrox99 · **Post subject:** Re: PowerMac G4 **Posted:** Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:56 am

No Leopard can run on PPC G4/G5 but they have they have to be over 867mhz but I know there ways around that. I've seen it.

Sadly snow leopard will be intel only

Whistler_fan · **Post subject:** Re: PowerMac G4 **Posted:** Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:31 pm

Maybe this is something for you then : http://www.osnews.com/story/21277/Getting_Leopard_on_an_Unsupported_G4_in_a_Few_Clicks

mewrox99 · **Post subject:** Re: PowerMac G4 **Posted:** Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:20 pm

ok thank you

Rixel · **Post subject:** Re: PowerMac G4 **Posted:** Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:57 pm

If you mean the developer previews no they wont. I had almost the same machine (different processor and such), which was originally a sawtooth that i switched the logic board out of to use AGP, afterthat I couldn't get them to install so Itend to doubt it will work.

On the other hand you can probably run betas of panther, tiger, etc. But having tried, the DPs, the beta, and Rhapsody wont work.

mewrox99 · **Post subject:** Re: PowerMac G4 **Posted:** Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:40 am

aww, I got it to install Mac OS X betas :cry:

Anyway, Is the anything interesting about the leopard betas

Rixel · **Post subject:** Re: PowerMac G4 **Posted:** Sat Aug 08, 2009 3:13 am

I never tried the leopard betas but in the tiger beta, it was kinda cool that when you clicked the menu bar, the menu would turn aqua like the scroll bar, it wasn't done in the server build, and it didnt make the final, but it was nifty.

i think the build number was 8A323.

To run the leopard betas you will probably need Xpostfacto, because as mentioned earlier your processor isn't fast enough

ftgba2244 · **Post subject:** Re: PowerMac G4 **Posted:** Sat Aug 08, 2009 7:33 am

Whistler_fan wrote:

Maybe this is something for you then : http://www.osnews.com/story/21277/Getting_Leopard_on_an_Unsupported_G4_in_a_Few_Clicks

I was looking for something like this just a few days ago for my AGP graphics G4...I think I'll give Leopard a shot. Thanks!

mewrox99 · **Post subject:** Re: PowerMac G4 **Posted:** Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:09 pm

The computer has come, and it's running tiger. Turns out it's the quicksilver model

It works fine, runs iTunes, plays some DivX files, and Firefox 3.5 is smooth

Despite being able to play HQ DivX files, Youtube Lags

Rob Jansen · **Post subject:** Re: PowerMac G4 **Posted:** Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:25 pm

mewrox99 wrote:

Despite being able to play HQ DivX files, Youtube Lags

That has to do with Adobe Flash or you're internet speed.

It needs to load the video.

Vista Ultimate R2 · **Post subject:** Re: PowerMac G4 **Posted:** Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:56 pm

Have you installed the latest Flash Player (10)? That one is significantly faster than previous releases, although the Mac OS version of Flash is a lot less optimised than the Windows version and so does tend to perform relatively poorly.

mewrox99 · **Post subject:** Re: PowerMac G4 **Posted:** Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:21 am

Flash 10 has helped

Saul · **Post subject:** Re: PowerMac G4 **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:53 pm

I use a powermac g4 graphite, 400mhz and tiger. Its flamin fast! :mrgreen:

Good on youtube, excellent on itunes, and i absolutely love osx. It also boots OSX10.2.8 (jaguar)

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