Not as I hoped, but pretty good. QuickSilver!

[coius]

After posting a FS/FT post on Craigslist, I got a call regarding my Cat5e cable (both ends jacked) custom made for the person @ 75¢/ft. Well, he said he had just moved in and saw that I was looking for a Cube or TAM (I was just hoping someone was gullible enough). He said he had just gotten (what I heard was two machines but was one) a PowerMac G4 1.8Ghz Machine. I made sure it was a G4 and not a G5 (he said it was silver), and he said it was upgraded.

Well, I went over there tonight and spent 30 minutes putting ends on the cable and running 20' of cat5 and terminating the ends with jacks, and he hauls out this machine. I look on the back of it. it says 733Mhz. I thought, "Why not open the door". Well, i have never seen the inside of these, so I didn't know the heatsink it had on it was standard (at the time I saw it) so I figured it had the upgrade.

I got it home and it DOES have the 733Mhz CPU, and NOT the 1.8Ghz G4 I was hoping. Oh well...

I popped the 1.5GB RAM out of my dual 500Mhz G4 (SawTooth) and my GeForce4 MX AGP card, and threw it into the quicksilver. Btw, I never knew how the power for the monitor got to the card, but I saw the black block and it hit me instantly what it was. it was the power feed for an external Monitor (or rather, the apple CRT Displays)

Anyways, it runs OK. can feel sluggish at times. It's running OS X 10.4.11 right now

This is the specs:

PM G4 "QuickSilver"

733Mhz G4 256K L2 Cache

133Mhz FSB

1.5GB RAM (3x 512MB PC-133)

AGP 4x GeForce4 MX 64MB ADC/VGA

FW400/USB1.1/Modem/Airport Card SLOT!(no airport)/Gig-E/Sound in/out

in PCI Slot 1 I have:

PCI SATA Sonnet 2-port SATA Controller Card.

hooked to it I have: 320GB SATA 7200RPM HDD w/ 8MB Cache

hooked to IDE CD-ROM Channel, I have:

Sony DVD-+RW DL

and that's about it. No CRT DIsplay (Didn't want it. those things KILL G4s so easily). I took my existing Aluminum Keyboard and Logitech mouse, as well as my 32-bit 1440x900 ProView Display and hooked it up and am posting from this.

While It didn't meet my expectations, I guess it wasn't a bad haul for some cheap cable and 30 minutes of time

 

[Christopher]

Try running ProPresenter on one of the those.

Mine has almost the same specs. The only differenence is that it has the Geforce 2 and radeon 7000. Also it has 1.25Ghz of ram and Leopard.

I'm thinking the way it chugs has to do with the crappy video cards. :-/

 

[coius]

Man I am just jumping through hoops trying to get leopard onto this. T'would be nice if it would install...

Right now, I said "Screw it!" and took my TiBook (1Ghz) with no LCD Display, hooked it up to my monitor (in clamshell mode) and am installing it onto it with the G4 in FWTDM.

Hopefully that will get it running

 

[Christopher]

Man I am just jumping through hoops trying to get leopard onto this. T'would be nice if it would install...Right now, I said "Screw it!" and took my TiBook (1Ghz) with no LCD Display, hooked it up to my monitor (in clamshell mode) and am installing it onto it with the G4 in FWTDM.

Hopefully that will get it running

Leopard assist helped my 733MHz see the light of Leo.

 

[coius]

Didn't work for me. Even doing it through OpenFirmware didn't work. So I ended up taking my TIBook and installing it through that.

Btw, L.A. is written by one of our very own forum Members. He is "iMac600" I remember talking to him while he was writing. So one of our very forum members (or was a forum member, i think he left) has made an easy-to-use piece of application history

 

[Christopher]

Yeah I remember, he was basically endorsing the thing.