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| Mac Mini G4 boxed | |
| Posted by: joshc on 2020-05-23 04:54:30 I received a Mac Mini yesterday, which I found on eBay and won for only £66 inc shipping. Specs are 1.42GHz G4 - but the computer reports it as 1.5 GHz ? 512MB DDR SDRAM Fresh install of OSX Tiger 80GB hard drive Airport Bluetooth I thought it was nice to pick up a complete example of this iconic Mac, I remember the Stevenote for this one well.  | |
| Posted by: dzog on 2020-05-23 07:55:49 Very nice find! Looks like you got the secret speed-bumped model produced in the final months. It's like the LCIII+ of G4 Minis. In addition to the fastest CPU on a PPC mini, this one also came with a faster HDD, double the VRAM (64 vs 32), and a faster SuperDrive (if configured with one) vs the advertised 1.42 model. | |
| Posted by: joshc on 2020-05-23 12:34:15 You are right, it has 64MB VRAM! :rambo: | |
Posted by: maceffects on 2020-05-23 12:36:50You are right, it has 64MB VRAM! :rambo:What a great find! I had an earlier version new. They are great little machines and 64mb VRAM really does make a big difference relative of the programs of the time. | |
| Posted by: LaPorta on 2020-05-23 15:50:10 Yeah, it doesn’t get much better than that! | |
| Posted by: trag on 2020-05-24 01:23:24 In case you weren't already aware, the smart guys at ... can't remember, someone else will fill it in, have worked out how to boot the G4 Mini with OS9. | |
| Posted by: pcamen on 2020-05-24 11:28:29 Here is the page from Macos9lives.com: http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=2408.0 I have two Mini G4's sitting under my primary desk with a KVM on a single monitor. One is running System 9 and the other 10.4 with classic. They are pretty awesome little systems. | |
Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2020-05-24 11:44:31I received a Mac Mini yesterday, which I found on eBay and won for only £66 inc shipping.@joshc So you won this in the end? My max. bid on this was £43. There are a fair few 1.5GHz mac mini G4s in the UK. I`ve found 2 already in the last few months (I've won one and lost this one). If the serial number isn't given, I ask for it. There is a useful link at everymac.com here: https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/ In the end, if it is going to be used for Mac OS 9.2.2, the speed and the amount of VRAM isn't all that important. There are few games where it makes a difference. What's more of a nuisance is the fact that the internal speaker doesn't work under Mac OS 9.2.2. I've gotten around this by plugging a portable bluetooth speaker into the headphone socket. There is a fellow in Switzerland selling an overclocked mac mini G4 [1], so they are overclockable. One has to be careful. It's actually a 1.25Ghz mini. [1] https://www.ricardo.ch/de/a/mac-mini-g4-1.5ghz-1112813084/ | |
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