Snial
Well-known member
Hi folks,
I'm now the briefly and surprisingly honoured owner of @CircuitBored 's eMac, an 800MHz G4 machine with 1GB of RAM, overclocked to 1.27GHz. This makes it, in theory, slightly slower than my Mac mini G4, except that, I believe the eMac has a spinning HDD instead of the mSATA drive the Mac miniG4 does. OTOH, it has Wifi, which the Mac mini G4 doesn't (I use my Raspberry PI 3 as a Wifi-Ethernet bridge).
So, the natural thing to do once I started to play with it, is to get the InterwebPPC browser running on it and then log into the 68KMLA, just to prove it's usable. And it is, with a slight typing lag for a touch-typist like me.
It looks a bit ungainly and somewhat sacrilegious connected to my R-PI keyboard, but I prefer small keyboards, and this eMac doesn't have Bluetooth, so I'm forced to use a wired keyboard anyway - and of course, because it's running Mac OS X 10.4.11, the scroll bars work the opposite way round to a modern macOS and that takes a bit of getting used to!
A bit of a background: this eMac was bought by CircuitBored about a decade back and used as his main computer for a number of years until he could afford something better, so it has special significance. I'm glad it's not going to be junked. The display looks pretty sharp and my middle-aged eyes can cope with the 72Hz frequency for the benefit of a 1280 x 960 resolution (which oddly enough is just slightly less than my Intel Mac mini's 1280x1024, but keeps the 4:3 screen ratio).
I've just tried to watch a couple of my YouTube videos, but even with the Recommended InterTube, YouTube thinks the videos won't play (probably because of browser ID strings, but I've not tried to get YouTube to work on a PPC Mac for years).
Although this machine is nice to play with, I'm going to be selling it on eBay in the near future, primarily because, as before, I need the space and this baby is BIG! With 1GB of RAM and Tiger, it's capable of doing some surprisingly sophisticated video editing with Final Cut Express 2.0 (and 3.0 HD) as I know, but from using similar machines for that purpose in the noughties. Next up, I think involves installing MacPorts.
I'll probably post a few more updates as I progress, and if you have any advice on how to make the best of this eMac, feel free to let me know!
Cheers from Julz.
I'm now the briefly and surprisingly honoured owner of @CircuitBored 's eMac, an 800MHz G4 machine with 1GB of RAM, overclocked to 1.27GHz. This makes it, in theory, slightly slower than my Mac mini G4, except that, I believe the eMac has a spinning HDD instead of the mSATA drive the Mac miniG4 does. OTOH, it has Wifi, which the Mac mini G4 doesn't (I use my Raspberry PI 3 as a Wifi-Ethernet bridge).
So, the natural thing to do once I started to play with it, is to get the InterwebPPC browser running on it and then log into the 68KMLA, just to prove it's usable. And it is, with a slight typing lag for a touch-typist like me.
It looks a bit ungainly and somewhat sacrilegious connected to my R-PI keyboard, but I prefer small keyboards, and this eMac doesn't have Bluetooth, so I'm forced to use a wired keyboard anyway - and of course, because it's running Mac OS X 10.4.11, the scroll bars work the opposite way round to a modern macOS and that takes a bit of getting used to!
A bit of a background: this eMac was bought by CircuitBored about a decade back and used as his main computer for a number of years until he could afford something better, so it has special significance. I'm glad it's not going to be junked. The display looks pretty sharp and my middle-aged eyes can cope with the 72Hz frequency for the benefit of a 1280 x 960 resolution (which oddly enough is just slightly less than my Intel Mac mini's 1280x1024, but keeps the 4:3 screen ratio).
I've just tried to watch a couple of my YouTube videos, but even with the Recommended InterTube, YouTube thinks the videos won't play (probably because of browser ID strings, but I've not tried to get YouTube to work on a PPC Mac for years).
Although this machine is nice to play with, I'm going to be selling it on eBay in the near future, primarily because, as before, I need the space and this baby is BIG! With 1GB of RAM and Tiger, it's capable of doing some surprisingly sophisticated video editing with Final Cut Express 2.0 (and 3.0 HD) as I know, but from using similar machines for that purpose in the noughties. Next up, I think involves installing MacPorts.
I'll probably post a few more updates as I progress, and if you have any advice on how to make the best of this eMac, feel free to let me know!
Cheers from Julz.