Powermac G4

[bibilit]

My first post here.

Just collected a Powermac G4 400 mhz Sawtooth, already have one, but can't hardly resist as this one was for free

No HD nor ram, but owner advised it as tested and working.

The case was cleaned inside and out... a set of ram sticks, plus a second hand HD and i have a new toy to play with .

 

[olePigeon]

Can't go wrong with free, and the machine has great upgrade potential.

 

[Unknown_K]

You can go wrong with free if you are the type of person who has to completely upgrade the machine (parts cost money).

If you are lucky the sawtooth has a later board revision that allows dual processor modules, they are fun to mess around with.

 

[bibilit]

For the time being, the PM will probably remain more or less stock.

The lucky find is that somebody replaced the graphic card with an Adc/Vga Nvidia Gforce 2 Mx.

If necessary, this will be used in my Cube...as a cheap upgrade :lisa2:

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Graphite is my all time favorite case design, I love my G4/466DA's visual appeal.

I nabbed a Quicksilver '02 Dual 1GHz on eBay a couple of years ago and still haven't got it fully set up. Partially do to Db & BTU production, but the Graphite DA is still a joy to use under 9.2.2 for all my Y2K era Graphic Design & CAD/CAM Apps . . .

. . . and it looks faster! )

 

[coius]

If I were you, I would dual boot 10.3 and OS 9 on it and use it for vintage apps. Maybe turn it into a file server for classic stuff.

You can put up to a 120GB HDD (Reasonable if you don't want to absolutely hit the 128GB limit) without going over, but it would be nice. Or put a SCSI card and a few SCSI drives in it and make it run super fast.

Sawtooths don't have gigabit Ethernet, so if your run Gig Enet you might want to get a PCI ethernet card. I recommend a Realtek 8169 chipset. they have drivers for 10.3 and you can use that (I use it on mine). They may have OS 9 drives.

Of course, you can also source 10.3 server for that and use it as a OS X/ NetBoot server for macs

 

[bibilit]

Right now i have 3 units, 2 of them i collected recently.

I have a Yikes and two Sawtooth.

All of them are dual boot, and some came with interesting softs.

Graphite is my all time favorite case design

I agree with you and most of all, are easy to work with and to upgrade.

 

[olePigeon]

Graphite is my all time favorite case design, I love my G4/466DA's visual appeal.

The Dual 533 G4 Mac is in my top 5 of all-time favorite Macs, and is my second favorite case design next to the PoweMac G5.

 

[trag]

You can put up to a 120GB HDD (Reasonable if you don't want to absolutely hit the 128GB limit) without going over, but it would be nice. Or put a SCSI card and a few SCSI drives in it and make it run super fast.

Or put an ATA card like the Acard AEC-6880M in it, thus avoiding the HDD size limit and gaining the capability to have a RAID that is bootable/usable in either OS 9 (and earlier) or X.

Sawtooths don't have gigabit Ethernet, so if your run Gig Enet you might want to get a PCI ethernet card. I recommend a Realtek 8169 chipset. they have drivers for 10.3 and you can use that (I use it on mine). They may have OS 9 drives.

Realtek published OS9 drivers. They were on their website. I haven't checked back in a long time. One of Amazon's sellers has a Realtek 8169 card for less than $8 shipped. http://amzn.com/B004FLSHSW

I have not ordered nor tested one.