I have a 1999-vintage G4 tower
Those have a pretty low power draw, something like 20W.
(Assuming you didn't hot it up too much.) They'd be a
fairly decent media server, assuming they'd be up to
the task. Our dual and quad G5's are 10-20x the power
draw, leave them on and you'd see it in your
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net wrote:
that i am likely the only person here to be using a pre intel PowerPC mac
as his main computer.
Hardly, all my email is on this 233MHz G3. Though most days I'm
using Vine server and Chicken of the VNC to run it from
i gave my g4 tower to my kid and she pretty much gave up on it. :(
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Alex Chamberlain
apchamberl...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net wrote:
that i am likely the only person here to be using a pre intel PowerPC
My main laptop for dragging to work and on trips is a TiBook 1 GHz
(2003), and my desktop is a MDD dual G4. I've been experimenting with
later MacBook Pro's (reflowing the video chips), but I don't think
they are as reliable.
Good, solid machines.
Peter
I have a G4 Quicksilver sitting in the back bedroom acting as a backup machine.
That's about as old as mine get.
My current machine (which just recently replaced a C2D 20 iMac) is a Mac Pro
1,1 Intel. I want to upgrade the processors to 5355s and make it an 8 core
machine, but I'm just not
At 11:54 PM -0400 10/26/13, Gary Hurst wrote:
basically to run an email client or it can do more than that?
Email, limited Net access and iTunes, basically. In a pinch, I can
do simple graphics work on it.
i had a bunch of pismos i gave away to some kid
Got a stack of junker Pismos in
yeah, i loved that pismo. had 2 or 3 working ones and a few parts ones. i
wish someone built a machine like that today. i liked how you could either
plug in a drive or an extra battery :)
i also had some small investment in PCMCIA stuff. not sure what happened
to that. probably in the ex
Pismo's were great -- with two batteries, I got upwards of 8 hours of
run time, specially after new cells in the batteries. However, it was
slow as molasses with Word, which I'm stuck with, and much heavier
than the TiBook.
My TiBook is back to full function now -- I lost a screw out of
Don't remember any video chips cracking off the boards or stupid stuff
like that in those days either (self-igniting Powerbooks aside, as
that wasn't a Apple issue, it was a Sony battery issue that persisted
for some years). Now they are high priced self-destructing throw-
aways -- my
i still like big free standing desktop units. i dont' see how those
laptops can work out consistently
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Peter Frederick psf...@earthlink.netwrote:
Don't remember any video chips cracking off the boards or stupid stuff
like that in those days either
Don't know if desktops are a habit or a requirement, but for most
people it doesn't make any difference. In fact, for a lot of people,
a smart phone is all they really use.
Me, I have a couple SCSI scanners attached, two printers (and soon
three when I get the BW R1800 fixed), so a
Speaking of reballing GPUs in G5 iMacs and others, I have two 20 G5 iMacs on
my bench that need cap replacements. I have the caps, but I don't have a
soldering iron that is hot enough for the newer solder they used.
I should put one of those on my list
Dan
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 27,
i don't know how many smartphones have 3 28 screens. i want big video and
big audio
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Peter Frederick psf...@earthlink.netwrote:
Don't know if desktops are a habit or a requirement, but for most people
it doesn't make any difference. In fact, for a lot of
I sold my 15 CD MacBook Pro last year to fund an iPad with LTE/3G. I got
enough for it to buy a refurb iPad 2.
Between the iPad and my desktop I can pretty much do everything I need. I don't
miss the laptop at all.
I would say that had I been able to find some sort of cellular arrangement for
i rarely need to be away from my computer, but i think a tablet would be
adquate for me in that situation
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
I sold my 15 CD MacBook Pro last year to fund an iPad with LTE/3G. I got
enough for it to buy a refurb iPad 2.
Between
The Android OS on the HP TouchPad did everything I needed and more, and it was
easily configurable and allowed me to tinker under the hood all I wanted. The
was purportedly a Euro version of it that had LTE, but I've never seen one.
The only determining factor was connectivity, but to be
Speaking of bad caps, I have a MacBook Pro that is totally inert now
except that the battery charges. Any chance of a blow fuse or bad cap
on the logic board keeping it from booting? Acts as if the logic
board has now power, and I don't really have the tools to investigate.
Peter
At 1:55 PM -0400 10/27/13, Gary Hurst wrote:
yeah, i loved that pismo. had 2 or 3 working ones and a few parts ones. i
wish someone built a machine like that today. i liked how you could either
plug in a drive or an extra battery :)
Yep! With two batteries in good nick, that thing would
Travel mac is a 2.2 core2 Duo macbook. I tote a airport express for secured
wifi
Desktop is a MacPro quad Xenon with 8 gig triple monitor and a bank of firewire
externals for all my junk.
Media Mac is a 2009 MacMini hooked to a 42 Sony. External drive has iTunes
and ripped video. Two
yeah, that's kinda what i'm talking about. someone finally understands!
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 6:09 PM, clay redgh...@comcast.net wrote:
Travel mac is a 2.2 core2 Duo macbook. I tote a airport express for
secured wifi
Desktop is a MacPro quad Xenon with 8 gig triple monitor and a bank of
My buddy still uses his G5 w/ 30 Cinema display bit admits its getting
tired.
I still have my 2007 17 MBP though it too is getting tired. I don't need
screens to just appear, but as the software becomes more complex it gets
slower and slower. It can't really keep up with my scanner like newer
that i am likely the only person here to be using a pre intel PowerPC mac
as his main computer.
i'm hoping to keep it working long enough to get it to 10 years old before
considering retiring it. odds are not on my side to get it to the middle
of 2015
--
*reliable vendor of superior parts for
I've used a 12 G4 PowerBook as my main computer for years (though at
this moment I'm using and slowly transitioning to a mid-2007 iMac).
Still use the old G4 on an almost daily basis though.
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013, at 11:30 PM, Gary Hurst wrote:
that i am likely the only person here to be
this is good to hear. i don't think old things should be discarded simply
because marketing types propping up consumerist society try to convince you
to discard them and get something new.
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.eduwrote:
I've used a 12 G4 PowerBook as
I use a 1999 G3 Lombard as my main laptop on the road...
-MMM-
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Gary Hurst jabbahur...@gmail.com wrote:
this is good to hear. i don't think old things should be discarded simply
because marketing types propping up consumerist society try to convince you
to
basically to run an email client or it can do more than that?
i had a bunch of pismos i gave away to some kid
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:48 PM, M. Mitchell Marmel marme...@gmail.comwrote:
I use a 1999 G3 Lombard as my main laptop on the road...
-MMM-
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:47 PM,
You may already be aware of
[1]http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ which provides custom
builds of Firefox for PPC Macs. It's the only way I know of to get a
modern, updated web browser for these computers.
No plugins though, so no Flash. I live quite happily without it, if you
want to
that i am likely the only person here to be using a pre intel PowerPC
mac
as his main computer.
Hardly, all my email is on this 233MHz G3. Though most days I'm
using Vine server and Chicken of the VNC to run it from this G3
pismo.
The only things these systems fall down on is surfing. The
i have flash on tenfourfox
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.eduwrote:
You may already be aware of
[1]http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ which provides custom
builds of Firefox for PPC Macs. It's the only way I know of to get a
modern, updated web
i am very happy to hear all this. i really thought i was alone in this
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net wrote:
that i am likely the only person here to be using a pre intel PowerPC mac
as his main computer.
Hardly, all my email is on this 233MHz G3.
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