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Posted by: bibilit on 2011-05-27 12:15:09
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 😎 .
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2011-05-28 13:32:09
Can't go wrong with free, and the machine has great upgrade potential.
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2011-05-28 20:50:08
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.
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Posted by: bibilit on 2011-05-28 23:09:27
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:
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Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2011-05-29 06:11:13
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! 😱)
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Posted by: coius on 2011-05-29 06:33:03
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
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Posted by: bibilit on 2011-05-29 08:17:29
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.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2011-05-29 12:11:49
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.
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Posted by: trag on 2011-05-31 13:40:45
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.
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