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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Got a Power Mac G4! | Posted by: sega dude on 2015-08-30 09:09:05
Yesterday, I found a garage sale on craigslist that claimed to have "Mac computers". So I went to it. There, sitting on a table was a Power Mac G4 tower with a $10 price tag on it. Ended up getting it for $5 because it didn't have a power cord, but that wasn't a problem. No way was I going to pass it up, I've been wanting a G4 tower for awhile. Got it home, hooked it up, and it fired right up. It booted into a (massively out of date) install of 10.4 Tiger. The date and time were horribly wrong, but that's probably because it was off for so long. So far, the date and time seem to be sticking, but I haven't unplugged it. It has a 350mhz G4, dual hard drives, (a 20GB and a 6GB) and 640MB of RAM. The original ATI Rage 128 video card was upgraded to a ATI Radeon 7500. It also has some sort of SCSI cards in it. It also has an install of OS 9. It identifies itself as Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics), so I believe it's a Sawtooth? Very happy to have this machine in my collection.
| Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-08-30 09:59:36
Yes, that's a Sawtooth, a base model.
| Posted by: bibilit on 2015-08-30 10:32:26
Good price, and nice upgrade concerning the ATI graphics.
A G4 Tower is really useful for a lot of things (to fill the gap for instance)
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2015-08-31 09:42:34
I use mine for a lot of games and classic number crunching (such as making disk images of CD-ROMs, which takes forever on my IIci.)
| Posted by: LazarusNine on 2015-09-02 05:09:01
Great find - especially given the price. I have two G4 MDDs, one of which is flaky as shit, but the other is - as bibilit states - great as an intermediary between my 2012 MBP running Yosemite and all of my other networked classic Macs (IIx, LC III, LC 475, etc.). It makes transferring files between a 'modern' machine and a legacy one very easy (once the OS, AppleShare and OpenTransport are all installed on the older Macs, of course).
| Posted by: Schmoburger on 2015-09-27 13:26:37
Nice pickup. 🙂 I recently aquired a Saw myself in addition to the Yikes ive already had for years. Very nice machine, huge RAM ceiling, uprgradable to a decent degree in the processor and graphics departments, lots of slots, airport compatible out of the box, and capable of running OS8.6 if you can find the correct distribution specifically for the Sawtooth.
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