Powermac G4

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Comment by Lars (WhyOSX) on November 11, 2009 at 3:29am

Earlier Performas have better built-in sound systems,
my 6500 with the famous subwoofer makes a PC-user frighten at startup.

Comment by maxheadroom on November 10, 2009 at 3:11pm

But this is a bit strange: the digital audio do not have an audio in...

Comment by maxheadroom on November 10, 2009 at 2:44pm

I installed teh 10.5 leopard on my 466 MHz digital audio, its have the original 128 ATI videocard, but the Leopard working. Ok, a bit lagging sometimes, but still.

Comment by Lars (WhyOSX) on November 9, 2009 at 11:41pm

My G4 DA was a monster machine at its time, best to get; today it has two hard disks (40/80 GB), Zip and a multiformat burner, 1 GB of RAM.
You're absolutely right - they are disturbingly loud.
It's always a pleasure to shut it down.

Comment by Brandon Ruscoe on November 9, 2009 at 4:46pm

I have a PowerMac G4 Quicksilver 2001, 733mhz G4, 768MB Ram, 40GB HDD, 32MB GEFORCE 2, wonderful machine, im planning on replacing the cpu fan as its kinda noisey, after cleaning this machine inside and out it looks really good.

Comment by Lars (WhyOSX) on June 15, 2009 at 7:09am

Recently improved my G4's performance with ATI graphics 32MB for € 1, now it offers me GoogleEarth - impossible with 16MB.
Substituted the white Apple ProMouse by a 2-button-and-wheel mouse found on a flee market (PC-USB - € 1 as well); a nice progress towards user friendlyness.

Comment by Lothar Joerger on June 15, 2009 at 6:57am

I am a proud ower of a Yikes, a Sawtooth and a Gigabit Ethernet. They all have 400 MHz CPUs and 1 GB RAM. The Gigabit Ethernet is running Leopard thanks to the Tool "LeopardAssist". Leopard runs slightly slower on this Machines than Tiger if you have a good Graphic-Card (if you have a stock ATI Rage 128 or Radeon without CoreImage and OpenGL support, forget about installing Leopard. It is too slow). I used a PC Version of a XFX 5400 and flash it with a Mac-Firmware.

Comment by Mike Erwin on May 18, 2009 at 4:00pm

Current project: transform the 2001 Quicksilver that got me through college into its ultimate form. No need to completely max out everything, but I'm going nuts in a few places. Also some subtle case mods, keeping original spirit of the beautiful Quicksilver design. Does anyone else remember the Nitro-Burnin' Funny Macs feature in MacAddict?

So far...
replaced 733 G4 with dual 800s
fast combo drive from a MDD
5.1 surround sound with M-Audio card
USB 2 card
1.5 GB of (supposedly) fast memory
300 GB (at 10,000 rpm!) through a Sonnet card
trying to get Radeon X850 to work, but no luck yet!

Sure, many later Macs can outperform even a hot-rod G4, but it's rewarding to see its potential unfold now that some of these parts are affordable.

Comment by maclick on February 20, 2009 at 3:45pm

My Quicksilver's logic board died, I now have a Mirror G4 and very happy with how quietly it runs.

Comment by SinnerBOFH on February 19, 2009 at 7:43pm

In answer to Dana_W :

My Cube PowerMac is running with a single volume of 160 GB disk (yes, bigger than 128 GB), thanks to a script that I found at The Mac Elite forum (which is sadly down). There is a similar information here and here.

It works fine except:
* Only works with OS X (no System 9)
* the big disk needs to be blank before the trick (or it will be erased)
* If you zap the PRAM, you will not be able to access the information on your disk... until you run the magic trick again.

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