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Updating my G-4 466 DA . . . finally! =8-/
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Trash80toHP_Mini
NIGHT STALKER
Hooray! Thanks for all your input, comrade. Not too shabby for $22 shipped!
Got any links to suppliers of (relatively) inexpensive/(fairly) high quality cables. You know that ole' price/performance sweet spot! = ;-) I'll be needing an adapter to HD-15 VGA as well, which port for which?
jt =8-D
p.s. anybody have good links to howtos for fixing impedance mismatched speaker/A/V Receiver combos. :
Trash80toHP_Mini
NIGHT STALKER
. . . I won an nVIDIA GeForce4 MX 64 MB on this go-round all right . . . but maybe the packaging and shipping costs are a TEENSY bit on the extreme side . . . :-/
. . . . ships in original packaging with all the trimmins' . . . nestled inside a Power Mac G4 Dual 1 GHz MDD. 8-o
jt :lol:
. . . . ships in original packaging with all the trimmins' . . . nestled inside a Power Mac G4 Dual 1 GHz MDD. 8-o
jt :lol:
Trash80toHP_Mini
NIGHT STALKER
HEH! }
Erm . . . not a freakin' clue! :-/
jt =8-D
alk
Well-known member
You know, over the last couple of months I've been watching the price of G4 Macs come way down. It's been really very impressive to see an MDD that a few months ago would have sold for $600 start selling for $200-300, and, IMHO, about time. Picking up a dual G4 at 800MHz or faster is now actually affordable. The real question is what to do with that hardware! ;-)
I've devoted a lot of my spare CPU cycles around the house to ripping my rather sizable DVD collection to my Macs using HandBrake. That is something the MDD will be able to do handily, and it can play some nice movies on your HDTV. It'll make a decent DVD player if you so desire, or you can turn it into a home theater system if you have a large collection of ripped movies like me. I'm working on about 1TB of MP4 files split over two 1TB SATA drives on my dual 1GHz Quicksilver. I've shared out the drives by NFS so all my Macs can access the video files, and I play them back on my HDTV via iBook, PowerBook, or anything else I have on hand. Of course, you still need to calibrate your expectations: HD content (720i/p, 1080i/p) is still largely a no-go on the G4.
One day I'll build my own HTPC out of the carcass of my old Apple Set Top Box and a PowerBook G4 or something. That will be fun. I keep looking for junkparts on eBay I can bend to this use but get distracted by them and end up using them for something else (like digital picture frames) before I can actually finish this project... ;-)
Peace,
Drew
I've devoted a lot of my spare CPU cycles around the house to ripping my rather sizable DVD collection to my Macs using HandBrake. That is something the MDD will be able to do handily, and it can play some nice movies on your HDTV. It'll make a decent DVD player if you so desire, or you can turn it into a home theater system if you have a large collection of ripped movies like me. I'm working on about 1TB of MP4 files split over two 1TB SATA drives on my dual 1GHz Quicksilver. I've shared out the drives by NFS so all my Macs can access the video files, and I play them back on my HDTV via iBook, PowerBook, or anything else I have on hand. Of course, you still need to calibrate your expectations: HD content (720i/p, 1080i/p) is still largely a no-go on the G4.
One day I'll build my own HTPC out of the carcass of my old Apple Set Top Box and a PowerBook G4 or something. That will be fun. I keep looking for junkparts on eBay I can bend to this use but get distracted by them and end up using them for something else (like digital picture frames) before I can actually finish this project... ;-)
Peace,
Drew
Trash80toHP_Mini
NIGHT STALKER
I've got a Metric CrapLoad of LICENSED Graphics, CAD/CAM software, some of it for cutting silk-screen stencils. vinyl cutting/pen plotting on paper & doing Photographic Quality (circa 1998, but good enough for me!) Color Printing on the 40" Plotter now residing in my living room. I've got lots of Apps for building fonts, digitizing logos or artwork,etc. Not to mention yet another Metric CrapLoad of LICENSED Software consisting of (Claris)AppleWorks, Quicken, Utilities and Misc. Apps that only run under OS 9.
That'd be my answer as to your question of "what to do with that hardware!"
IIRC, this is the second fastest machine ever made that'll boot right up in OS 9.2 :?:
It comes with the original packaging, KBD, (the accursed) Pro-Mouse, install CD's, and Manuals. :b&w:
It's got TWO procs runnin' at over TWICE the clockspeed of the trusty ole' 466 DA's lonely all on its ownsome CPU . . .
. . . and I snagged it for only $335 w/shipping. 8-o
Not such a bad way to upgrade, eh?
jt :lol:
Christopher
Well-known member
If i had a decent amount of G4's of the same speed, I would actually buy Pooch and run my very own parallel computing center.
