/PPG/ PowerPC General All things PowerPC related. >Old PowerMac "g-series" machines >PPC ThinkPad >Recent Talos I and II and other Power 8/ 9 machines >PPC consoles (GameCube, Xbox 360, etc) okay *if* it's about modding the software
Verbose Edition: Post your complete list of specs for your PowerPC Machine
Share: >What you use your PPC machine for >What kind of upgrades you've done/ want to do >What software you use regularly
15" PowerBook g4: >512mb of SDRAM >1 ghz G4 processor >60gb ATA HDD >ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 >OS X 10.4.11
I use it daily for writing papers for class in Open Office 2.4. Browse the web and IRC in Camino (no longer supported)/ 104Fox. Great DVD player (VLC) with that crispy panel. Mail and calendar clients IMAP great into Gmail.
Looking forward to throwing in 2 x 1gb of RAM and an SSD solution. Has anyone done that before? I'm thinking m.2 to ATA because I have 64gb m.2 I'm not using. Any advantage of an actual ATA SSD? They're a little pricy.
Also gonna replace the thermal paste/ possibly do some chassis mods to try to reduce thermal throttling. Good God these things get hot.
Nolan Price
You managed to out hipster the think autists good job
Easton Moore
That's worst than thinkpad faggotry, at least their shit is usable.
Xavier Gomez
>Verbose Edition: Post your complete list of specs for your PowerPC Machine >it's literally a circlejerk for powerpc computers thread Last one died with like 40 replies.
Luis Fisher
This thread is nothing new, lurk more newfag.
Jordan Wilson
>huur I make hipster thread once while get 20 replies and you newfag
Why would you buy it? Why is Jow Forums becoming more stupid every day?
Charles Diaz
I got it for free you idiot. Actually, I got four of them, all working, along with an iBook g4 for free.
Josiah Hill
Literally look at the bump count you newfags
Owen Hernandez
And why you are shilling it?
Jace Butler
It's a nice little machine that's super comfy to use. The only reason you're hating is because it has an Apple logo on it. In trying to be different from the normies you've just become like every other Jow Forumsentooman.
Ethan Miller
Hey, I recently obtained an old PowerMac g5, owner allegedly kept it in great condition, even took out the ram and put it in an anti-static bag when he stowed it, but unfortunately, almost 14 years in storage can hurt a computer. The computer seems alright, besides being very dusty, but when I go to power it on, it gets a dim light on the power button, that flashes 3 times, that returns to the dim state. I never get a screen either. I already fixed the ram properly so I know it's not that, does anyone know what might be causing the device trouble? The graphics card was caked with dust and looked dead, so I ordered a new one off eBay, but if anyone knows what the power light might be, or why the system won't give me any picture, I would love to know. Please, this computer is fucking amazing, I need it!
Lincoln Gutierrez
God, I wish I didnt get two dead powerbooks. I tried fixing one up but I guess both graphics cards were dead, so now I have two paperweights in my room collecting dust...sigh, what a real cheap PowerPC laptop I can get, just for the aesthetic?
Cooper Cook
Thanks for the bumps!
Aaron Collins
>Real cheap ppc laptop A PowerBook g4 lol. They go for dirt cheap. Look on Craigslist/ maybe Ebay if shipping isn't $100. The only other recent PPC laptops were a certain thinkpad that I can never find for less than something obnoxious like $500 on Ebay.
Evan Martin
>x86 cucks doing damage control Have fun with spectre and meltdown while we enjoy non backdoored hardware.
Juan Sullivan
That's really cool, but will you have trouble finding comparable ram for some thing that old? Or was this before Apple went full kike and made upgrading Apple hardware intentionally obtuse.
Jacob Rodriguez
(you)
Chase Price
PowerPC machines are plenty usable
Andrew Collins
arent they like $80 bucks though, lol. I thought iBooks were cheaper
Levi Gray
All macs with upgradable RAM just use normal RAM. All laptops have specific requirements of RAM. But yes this was almost a decade before they started soldering on the ram if that's what you mean. It's just normal 155 pin (iirc) DDR SDRAM.
Isaiah Sanders
plus I already wasted about 80 on the first two trying to fix them lmao
Chase Sanchez
Idk honestly. I thought they were like $40. The iBook G4 I had was totally unusable it was so slow. They were a horrible design. But yeah they'll be cheaper (ugly imo).
Angel Wilson
would they really be that slow, cant you upgrade the ram, sides, not like you would be doing anything of real performance on them anyways lmao
Gabriel Edwards
I'd like to see an x86 laptop from 2001 this nice lol. >protip, there isn't
Carter Baker
Yeah but it's still just slow RAM. The real problem is that sub-1ghz CPU most of them have.
Kayden Bailey
>9 IPs >30 replies pathetic
Bentley Perez
Thanks for the bump!
Dominic Nguyen
Ok, well good luck. Would love to see it up and running when you've finished, make a thread about it.
What distro you going to use? There's a good stable PPC Debian version IIRC.
Isaiah Sanders
I see, makes me want to try and fix the powerbook now, but if the graphics are boned, so am I lol. Wonder what I could do with them now...
I nabbed an iBook G4 12" for about $70 in 2015. Came with two batteries and didn't smell like shit.
I eventually got a 14" iBook and some 15" PowerBook with an odd LCD from my work as freebies. I disassembled the iBook and regret that I did that. Common MacBooks are less complex than those shits.
My 'dream' would be getting that 8 Core 3GHz PowerMac, but finding one with a not fucked up case is hard.
I don't really see the point of getting one for common use tho, I'm good with installing that Debian distro for PPC CPUs.
Ryder Morgan
>no webcam
How will the NSA spy on you?
Dylan Baker
MacOS 10.4 of course! The greatest desktop UNIX of all time was pre-intel OS X
For me, I don't see the point of running GNU on them. But to each there own!
Brayden King
>My 'dream' would be getting that 8 Core 3GHz PowerMac, but finding one with a not fucked up case is hard. If you're going to go that route, why not get a Talos II?
Chase Morales
So what does one even do with a computer this old anyway?
Jace Scott
I used to rock this, except I upgraded the memory to 256MiB (in addition to the soldered on 32 MiB). Kept original 3.2 GB hdd.
Ran Debian, then Debian testing for awhile. Then Gentoo. I even ran firefox 3 on that thing.
If only I had replaced the HDD it'd be basically silent (the HDD was loud as SHIT)
Lincoln Wood
install gentoo
Michael Kelly
I have the g5 with a studio display
Dual 2.0 ghz g5 ppc CPU’s 1ghz RAM
I mainly just study and program on this machine. Going to gut it and make a hackintosh with it soon
Adrian Hall
circlejerk on Jow Forums
Easton Rivera
Use it
Get a broken one
Brody Jones
>have a piece of history I'm going to gut it and put LED racing stripes on the side.
PowerPC was the sexiest lines of Macintoshes I have and will ever see. That industrial design, to the white plastic finishes, cozy af.
Btw, I just found an iBook in great shape on Craigslist for $20, Should I bite?
Nicholas Lewis
Did you read the first post?
Gabriel Nguyen
YEAH DONT DO THAT SMART BOY, GET A FOOKIN BROKEN ONE FIRST
Carter Foster
See
Caleb Thomas
If you understand none of these old PPC Macs have hardware acceleration support for h.264 and would be too slow for Youtube unless you have a dual core 2GHz+ machine
Joshua Rodriguez
Luckily some of us use computers for more than YouTube.
Christopher Long
Huh? When did we get PPC Generals?
Anyways I recently bought the following:
2 PowerMac G3s 2 PowerMac G5s And a Quicksilver PowerMac G4 MDD, all for $40
The G4 seems to hold up to 5 HDDs, so that'll be a server. A G5 will be a FOG server. A G3 will be used to transfer files to my retro gaming PC with Windows 98, and thus IE4. They will run Gentoo or OpenBSD depending on the purpose.
Michael Jones
>too slow for Youtube unless you have a dual core 2GHz+ machine ? my 1.4GHz Pentium M single core laptop from 2005 can play 720p30 youtube video just fine, and it also doesn't have hardware decoding support
Levi Carter
Dual boot OS X 10.5 on the G5 it's pretty cool.
Camden Wood
I don't need that operating system. I may try it though if I find the ISO.
Henry Phillips
There's no driver support for the PPC Macs for modern h.264/ other HD video formats.
Jordan Harris
senpai
Daniel Perry
um, ok...implying I wouldn't use it to watch movies off the DVD drive like a human being...or simply pull my phone from about two feet away and use that?
Justin Wilson
What GPU? You can do 720p h.264 baseline on a 1.5/6GHz G4/G5. If you do main or high profile it will choke.
Eli Bell
So I learned that my PowerMac g5 will need a hard drive, do they support 1.5 TB drives, or can I use some partitioning magic to make it work?
Mason Cruz
You're good. I had a 4TB drive in mine, no magic necessary
Dominic Moore
You can use any 3.5" SATA drive. It will only run at SATA I speeds.
Xavier Johnson
intel something, i repurposed it as a pfsense router some time ago
Leo Martin
I got a 700MHz eMac last week. I've been running OS 9.2 and 10.4 on it. I mostly use an 867MHz 12" Powerbook G4. The only problem is how long it takes to build software. It took 5 hours to build apple-gcc42. It's the most comfortable laptop I have for typing, though.
Elijah Collins
The keyboard on my 15in is the greatest I've ever felt
Robert Myers
My 2GHz Core2Duo T60 barely gets by playing 1080p Netflix with Intel GPU. Something tells me you're full of shit, it's baseline, or it's dropping frames like a motherfucker.
Tyler Campbell
>Please, this computer is fucking amazing, I need it!
Obviously not that great if it doesn't fucking boot.
Elijah Gonzalez
The palm rests on Powerbooks are also exceptional. If only it had a trackpoint, it would be perfect.
Easton Nguyen
How long until IBM ppc 9 chips will work with linux?
Thomas Bell
What have you tested so far?
Angel Cox
Does IBM generally make a port? Or is it just reliant on the community?
Jack Ward
now
Jordan Clark
IBM needs to get Windows 10 and OSX working first, then they will do what they can. It's a waiting game unfortunately.
David Richardson
Wtf? IBM doesn't port either of these to their architecture
Nathan Powell
assuming they haven't changed since 2014 when i last remember playing youtube videos on it, the format i used on it (22) is main-3.1 (checked just now)
Hudson Cox
How long until I can build a power9 desktop for shitposting?
That's pretty impressive if it isn't dropping frames. I'm not sure what profile Netflix uses, but my laptop slows down to a crawl if I try to do anything else but watch video.
Obviously you don't need one. It's a specialized piece of equipment
James Rivera
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Charles Kelly
I forgot about that, I installed FreeBSD on mine
Evan Baker
Read the OP again would you.
Cameron Sanders
Blow me.
Jaxson Ortiz
That's where you're wrong. I'll pick one up secondhand on ebay when I have enough autism bucks saved up.
Joshua Lewis
If anything, the wii is more of a /vr/ thing due to emulation purposes, but it can also be used as a nice home server for internet points
Neat. I used to have gc-Linux in mine. How well does FreeBSD run on it?
Just a friendly reminder that POWER and PowerPC are different ISAs, albeit really similar ones
Samuel Peterson
Here's them. I tested the G4 Quicksilver MDD, and that is fully working. I have not been able to get to working with the G3s or G5s. I can't imagine what can actually be done with the other G5 or G3 so I'll sell those if I can.
Thank you for that clarification the next thread will reflect that
Joshua Clark
you're kidding right? the hinges were dogshit and you had to tear the whole fucking thing down just to get to the hdd. when thinkautists sperg about their trashpads they kinda have a point, but what the fuck is this faggotry
Samuel Gomez
>POWER and PowerPC are different ISAs While this is factually correct, POWER4 and G5 were the same, and supported linux arch is ppc32/ppc64/ppc64el. There is no power arch.
Nolan Carter
Wouldn't it be on par with saying amd64 isn't x86? Which it technically isn't, but is fully comparable and an evolution of
Jaxon Edwards
because he's a crossdressing mexican and collecting worthless shit is apparently all he does with his life.