powerpc g4

I have a Late-2005 G4 Mac Mini running Leopard which originally shipped with Tiger. I can't find the original install discs anywhere. What is the best/easiest way to perform a clean install of it's original OS similar to Internet Recovery? Ik internet recovery doesn't exist for it. Is there a...

I want to upgrade the stock 450mhz processor on my Cube, but I do not want to spend 200 bucks on a single 1Ghz Sonnet upgrade on eBay. So my cube has a 7400 G4 and the logic board is also compatible with 7410s (like the G4 processor the 500mhz cube has), but will my cube work with a 1ghz...

Hi all, I have an old PPC G4 MDD single 1.25 GHz currently with the RV250 ATI card and I am looking for a replacement. I happen to have a RADEON 9550 256mb, an HD 3450 512 mb, an HD 2600 PRO 512 mb and a GeForce FX 5900 128mb laying around from old PCs. Does any of them work on a PPC G4? Do they...

so i've been wondering about a quicksilver 2002 i have and if its possible to add more ram and exceed the 1.5gb limit, i've noticed slow performance when running some applications like minecraft for PowerPC and Garageband. any idea if this is possible or if the system would even accept the...

Found it on a Matrox image capture card for $100. NXP wanted more than $1500 for it; they overcharge the crap out of their PPC units. Heard it’s quite rare and only a few PPC Mac users have ever seen one.

Hi everyone! I'd like to know if anyone has used a PPC G4 recently to edit modern HD video shot on an iPhone? I filmed some shots in 1080p HD on my phone, but when I transfer these to my iBook G4, Final Cut can't read the file. I know this is due to the age of the encoders on OS X 10.4.11, but I...

Hey all, I recently acquired a 2000 Graphite Gigabit Ethernet Power Mac G4 from an estate sale, and it came with the mouse, keyboard, monitor, and everything. It’s in very good condition, but the thing doesn’t power on right now because the clock battery inside of it is dead, so I’ve ordered a...

Hello all, I decided to make this post here because I was interested in knowing what some of you have used in terms of PCI upgrades for a PowerMac G4 AGP. I have a PowerMac G4 Digital Audio with an upgraded GPU with no populated PCI cards at the moment. I'm wondering what would be some good...

Hello! I am back at it again with the PowerMac G4 DA (Digital Audio), I got a compatible GPU upgrade coming in the mail soon. That GPU being the BFG Nvidia GeForce 7800 GS 256MB AGP GPU (BFGR78256GSOC). I looked around The Mac Elite Wiki and found that this very card is compatible and I saw...

Hello all, I have a 15" Alu PowerBook G4 1.5-1.67GHz in near to max configuration, and I'm trying to use it like a mac mini – I'm very satisfied by internals, ports and power consumption (compared to G4 mini). Unfortunately due to my limited desk space and all cable connections present I cannot...

Who’s ready for a new refreshed browsing experience for ppc based macs? On an earlier thread, someone mentioned the name PowerFox would be a good iceweaselppc name replacement as Iceweasel was the Debian version of Firefox and is trademarked. That got me thinking about a new tenfourfox based...

On an earlier thread about Firefox 68 for Linux 64 bit, the Quantum browser got a lot of positive reviews from users claiming it was finally less buggy, more stable than before and loads websites really fast. Someone mentioned it was trying to be ported to Linux 32 bit for PPC meaning the dual...