My First G4!

[30pin]

Just brought home my first G4!! It is a 400mhz AGP model. 1gb of ram and two hardrives. A 10gb and a 40gb. Came with the 17 inch CRT Studio Display. The display is huge!!! Pro keyboard and optical mouse. Condition is great!! It is the newest Mac I own. And the only one that runs O.S. 10!!

 

[funkytoad]

Awesome. Horray for OS 10!

 

[Christopher]

I think you sir are the first person I know that has just bough a G4, even though they love mac's

 

[Temetka]

Not a bad G4.

With a decent Video card and CPU upgrade it could be a competent OS X box. Otherwise I'd keep it for OS 9 and Classic.

 

[bluekatt]

for the money upgrades cost you can buy a complete G4 mini

even with just 400 mhz this is a competent os x box stick with panther not tiger

 

[IPNixon]

even with just 400 mhz this is a competent os x box stick with panther not tiger

Why Panther? I've found, in a couple cases, that Tiger runs *much* faster on any given system than does Panther.

Best example is my Lombard 333; after I installed and updated (to 10.4.5 at the time), I found it was a lot more faster and more responsive than Panther.

I'm also enjoying my Cube (main machine) on Tiger; 450MHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, OS 10.4.11. It never lets me down.

Just brought home my first G4!! It is a 400mhz AGP model. 1gb of ram and two hardrives. A 10gb and a 40gb. Came with the 17 inch CRT Studio Display. The display is huge!!! Pro keyboard and optical mouse. Condition is great!! It is the newest Mac I own. And the only one that runs O.S. 10!!

Nice score. Congrats!

 

[paws]

I have a 400 MHz AGP G4 and Tiger is better than Panther on it.

 

[Temetka]

Tiger IMO, has outperformed Panther on any machine I ever ran it on. Tiger was and still is an awesome OS. A 400MHz G4 is fine for Tiger. However even a modest 32MB Radeon will make a vast improvement in the GUI responsiveness of the machine. If you want to go all out you can:

Install a 1.8GHz G4

1GB PC100 / PC133 SDRAM

SATA / PATA Controller Card

Radeon 8500 or better GPU

Modern HD

Be prepared to spend some bucks though.

I'd rather drop that cash into a DP system which would run faster, have better upgrade possibilities and provide for a lengthened system life time.

Although I could never step down to a 400MHz box again, I can certainly understand for someone else who just now got a G4.

Congrat's on the machine, may it serve you well. 8)

 

[The Macster]

Although I could never step down to a 400MHz box again, I can certainly understand for someone else who just now got a G4.

Tiger on my 500 MHz Beige G4 feels insanely fast to me even though I'm used to a (also extremely fast) dual-core Vista box as my main machine Though I suppose it's just because I don't end up comparing the two different OSes directly - if I installed OS X on the PC then the G4 would probably end up feeling slow as I would start making direct comparisons between the speed of the OS.

By the way, Tiger is generally thought to be slightly more optimised than Panther, especially for AltiVec. However, the AGP G4 can run Leopard with only a very simple tweak of the install DVD, and that's what I'd do if I had one!