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Posted by: Byrd on 2009-08-19 19:26:24
Hi,
With the advent of Snow Leopard, G4 towers sure are getting cheap these days ... picked up this beauty for AUD $99! It came in pristine condition (bar many stickers on the sides) and is the last MDD made (the one with FW400 ports, OS 9 compatible, 2003 model).
Specs:
- G4 1.25 single, 167Mhz bus
- 1.25GB RAM
- 80GB HD
- Combo drive
- Radeon 9000 Pro
What I'm going to do:
- Overclock to ~ 1.5Ghz, seek out cheap dualie 1.25
- Up to full 2Gb RAM
- Have a spare 250GB IDE HD
- Superdrive
- Video card upgrade: I believe MDDs have issues with some PC flashed cards due to a differing ADC implementation, but I'll look into it. Have two potential upgrades: Radeon 9800XT or Geforce 6800GT (probably an overkill, better off in my PC!).
- PCI USB 2.0 card, PCI wireless card
Sweet!
JB
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Posted by: LCGuy on 2009-08-19 20:52:05
Very nice haul, I remember back at my old job (cicra 2005) I was in charge of maintaining 5 dual 1.25 Ghz MDDs (as well as about 20 eMacs and one G5)...running Panther and pre-CS Adobe apps with a full gig of RAM I remember them being faster than greased lightning!
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2009-08-20 02:36:58
$99 :O 8-o > 🙁 :-/ 🙂
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Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2009-08-20 11:49:39
$99 :O 8-o > 🙁 :-/ 🙂 How much is that in REAL money?
jt [😱)] ]'>
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Posted by: LCGuy on 2009-08-20 14:31:39
As of this morning, $99 in plastic money is $82.28 in paper money. 😉
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2009-08-20 22:18:27
Wow, really? Go, Aussie dollar! Time to consider US$ purchase again.
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Posted by: Byrd on 2009-08-31 16:49:14
Hey,
I've spent a little time tinkering with the MDD some more. By all accounts it's the fastest Mac I've owned - much faster in general use compared to my G4 Cube (with a Gigadesign 1.5Ghz 2MB L3 cache CPU).
- Overclock to 1.58Ghz - seems any higher requires a voltage increase, which I'm not a fan of doing
- Dual Superdrives - well, the slots are there 🙂
- Video card: the Radeon 9000 seems pretty good and I've a Geforce 6800GT AGP in my PC which would flash over, but I'm confused about running flashed cards in MDD machines (seems it doesn't like most of them)
JB
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Posted by: Temetka on 2009-09-01 00:57:12
Those are great machines.
I bet OS 9 at 1.58GHz flies!
A dual CPU upgrade would make OS X feel like butter on that machine. If you have cash, I wonder if you could get a SATA card and some HD's for it.
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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-09-01 14:22:33
They can handle HD right? If so then that could be a set top box. Put 3 500GB drives and you're set. :beige:
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Posted by: Byrd on 2009-09-01 17:35:10
I don't think "HD 1080" and "G4" can be said in the same sentence; you basically need an Intel Mac to do this sort of stuff. Still, it makes for a wonderful server/general use machine.
JB
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Posted by: waynestewart on 2010-03-09 11:28:19
Even 720p is pushing it for a G4.
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Posted by: Quadraman on 2010-03-09 15:34:57
I had a chance to grab a FW800 single 1ghz machine for $119 not long ago. That's less than I paid for my 533mhz DA a few years ago. I let it go because the shipping would have been too much and I didn't feel like driving over to Brooklyn to pick it up although he did also have the seldom seen 667mhz DA and a couple of other things that might have made an in person pickup worth it.
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Posted by: geeko on 2010-03-09 16:42:38
I had a chance to grab a FW800 single 1ghz machine for $119 not long ago. That's less than I paid for my 533mhz DA a few years ago. I let it go because the shipping would have been too much and I didn't feel like driving over to Brooklyn to pick it up although he did also have the seldom seen 667mhz DA and a couple of other things that might have made an in person pickup worth it. 2 weeks ago i got a 1.25 DP FW800 for $75 b/c the person who sold it to me didn't seat the ram correctly and it prevented it from starting up. Last weekend I got a 1.25 UNI (the fastest stock OS9 machine) for $15 that the person said had a dead CD drive. Well, i got that one home, and it does not power up (the light on the power button comes on for a second, but it won't do anything else), so i think it has a dead PSU, but i got 2gb of ram for the one that does work, so that made me very happy!
I think my oldest half brother has a 667mhz DA, I never new they existed until i saw his 🙂
but yeah, the prices on G4 towers are plummeting, I no longer feel bad about passing up a QS for $90 about a year ago 😀
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Posted by: Mars478 on 2010-03-09 17:04:11
Yeah these G4s and G5s are going to drop like rocks when the newbs figure out they cannot install SL on it.
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Posted by: Quadraman on 2010-03-09 18:13:15
Yeah these G4s and G5s are going to drop like rocks when the newbs figure out they cannot install SL on it. Second Life?
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Posted by: Mars478 on 2010-03-09 18:22:41
Snow Leopard.
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