Non-retro conquest

[macdownunder]

Hi all,

I've started on the G4 area of my collection in ernest now.

This week, I scored an iBook G4(listed as 800Mhz) sans power supply for a modest $280.

I made a quick power supply converter cable to run from another apple 45W/24V supply and away we went.

It appeared that the DVD drive was not working, and so I had to install OSX via firewire target disk mode.

To my surprise when I powered it up after the install, it turned out to be a G4/933 and with more RAM than I anticipated too.

In attempting to problem solve the DVD drive, I found that it does accept disks. However, they need to be pushed almost all the way into the slot. I am not used to doing this, as the only other slot load I've used is on my Cube - and gravity helps there a lot.

So in the end, a perfectly nice little G4 book to add to my G4 collection. It now stands at:

G4 Cube (modded to 1GHz)

G4 Digital Audio (733MHz)

G4 Quicksilver (733MHz)

G4 Xserve (v1, 1GHz)

G4 eMac (ATI - 1GHz)

G4 iBook 14" (933 MHz)

Regards,

Macdownunder

 

[bluekatt]

hard to believe but G4's are becoming retro too slowly but surley MDD and quicksilver are stil pretty damn high end but anything below them is fodder

especially yikes! and sawtooth mystic is still a player

 

[wgoodf]

hard to believe but G4's are becoming retro

a G4 ibook will never be retro!

well at least until it stops being my main machine and i can afford to upgrade - until then, its high end dammit!

 

[bluekatt]

my G5 imac seems to think otherwise ;p

but they are old tech by now

 

[MultiFinder]

All the graphites are gonna be officially unsupported by Leopard...

 

[LCGuy]

Meanwhile, i wish i had even one G4.

 

[MacMan]

I don't think my graphite G4 is retro yet, and I've now modernized it by adding a new aluminium Apple keyboard!

 

[bluekatt]

G4's have been on life support since 2003 when the G5 was released

 

[The Macster]

All the graphites are gonna be officially unsupported by Leopard...

I think that any enforcement of the lack of support of early G4s will be fairly minimal though, if they bother enforcing a MHz requirement at all - probably only requiring a Distribution.dist edit rather than a hit-and-miss/complicated solution like XPostFacto (the creator of which seems to have disappeared anyway). Hopefully there'll be some enforcement but that is easy to defeat, as it'll mean people who don't know any better than doing what Apple want and go and buy an Intel Inside will give away their old G4 that they think is now useless!