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Ok, so I was thinking of ways to connect a PPC iMac to Wifi. One of the things I thought was a usb wi fi dongle. It can plug into the USB port of a Mac and connect it to wifi. That would be cool to give a Slot Loader iMac G3 or a non-Airport equipped iBook/PowerBook acess to the Internet without...

Imagine you have a iMac G3 tray loader (Macintosh A) and a Airport Extreme equipped iMac G4/eMac (Macintosh B). Is it possible to connect two Macs with a Ethernet cable so that Macintosh A can use the Wireless Airport abilities of Macintosh B?

Hello, I'm thinking about getting a eMac 1.25 or 1.42, but I was wondering if the CPU can be upgraded to a 2ghz G4. I know it's soldered on directly, but would it be possible to put a 2ghz G4 in it's place? That would be cool to have a fast eMac while also booting into Mac OS 9 and 10.5 Leopard.

Hello, I'm thinking about getting a iMac G3 slot loader, but I was wondering if the CPU can be upgraded to a G4. I know it's soldered on directly, but would it be possible to put a 2ghz G4 in it's place?

So I'm thinking of getting a iMac G3 Tray Loader and upgrading it to have a Sonnet HARMONi G3 upgrade, but also have a G4 and Firewire 400. Well, the 600mhz uses the G3 750cx, which I didn't think can be upgraded, but the 500mhx has the regular G3 750 and the 750 can be replaced with the G4 7410...

PowerPC chips are still being made, even if manufacturing is now handled by Power.org. In fact, the Perseverance rover uses the same chip as the iMac G3: The G3. That got me thinking, wouldn't it be possible to make replica and working PowerPC Mac's? Think about it, replica boards that are...

In the 90's, it was possible to upgrade a 68k Mac to PowerPC with the Macintosh Processor Upgrade Card and or the Power Mac Processor Upgrade, depending on the model. However, those have a 601e cpu and can only go up to 9.1 with some patches to Mac OS (68k Macs can only go up to 8.1). I was...

When the G5 came out, Apple promised a 3ghz PowerMac and G5 iBook and MacBook, but Apple never made one. Apple said there were problems with IBM's manufacturing and the intense power usage, but that has me wondering something. Why didn't third party companies try to make G5 upgrades for G4...

Hello, have you ever noticed that some tray loading iMac G3's are missing their i/o door? Well, that can be annoying when you're looking for a iMac G3 to buy. What's worse is that there are no spare parts online, so if you want a door, you'll need to pull it from a donor iMac G3. I think it's...

Hello, so the revision A and B iMac G3's had the mezzanine slot and while it was intended for internal use by Apple, some accessories like the ForMac SCSI card and the 3dfx Game Wizard were developed for it. Items that also used the slot were Griffin's iDock Now, I was wondering if new...

So I saw a video by dosdude1 where he takes a Mac mini and replaced the soldered cpu with a socket so he could upgrade it. That may me think of something, would it be possible to do that on a PowerPC Mac? It would make some cpu upgrade easier on machines who's cpus are soldered like the iMac...

PowerPac Macs could only run Windows in emulation. A popular product was Virtual PC, which was created by Connectix. Then after version 6, it was sold to Microsoft, who made Version 7, the last version for Macs. For Virtual PC 7, it came with XP, but I wonder if it could accept Windows 7 or 10?

I know the community likes 10.4 Tiger, myself included, especially since it's the last version to support classic. In 10.5 Leopard, Apple removed support for it. While 10.5 is newer and the last version of Mac os to support PPC, how come no one has managed to get Classic to work on it? Sure, I...

Has the Mac OS 9 source code been leaked or reversed engineered? That would be nice because we can add modern drivers, patches, cpus, and hardware.

Well, TenFourFox is now dead, long live TenFourFox! That means that PowerPC in a way is also dead, long live PowerPC, Intel, and Apple Silicon!

Hello, I'm thinking of putting a Mac Mini in a clear Macintosh SE/30 case from MacEffects. Is there any tips or adapters that I can use for fitting a Mac Mini in the Seas case?

So I saw a forum on macos9lives.com (also a member there) that talked about if it was possible to make modern cpu upgrade cards for the power PC machines. Heres a link: http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,5076.0.html Well, now I'm curious if anyone else is interested in this idea...

Apparently, there are some iMac G3 Rev. C models were built using leftover Bondi Blue cases. Has anyone owned or seen or heard of one of these? If so, please explain and provide a photo if possible.

Hello, I'm thinking of getting a iMac G3 tray loader, but I'm wondering how would I connect it to the internet. I don't think it supports a Airport card, and I don't want to have to use Ethernet. Would someone like a Airport base or a modern Ethernet to wifi Adapter work?

I would want to know if someone has or had use them. Feel free to post your experiences. Please add a photo if possible.