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Now that it's 2015, how do you plan to use PPC Macs?

CYB3RBYTE said:
Well, I don't know about everyone else, but my PowerPC machines are going to be put to good use still, especially my recently acquired PowerMac G5. I plan on maxing out the RAM to 8GB, and installing a 500GB HD, so that I can use it as my Photo Editor/File Server while I am building my gaming PC.

My PowerPC isn't dying anytime soon!
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My Mac Pro has taken the place of my poor PowerMac G5 :(. It feels like a waste because I upgraded the RAM to 8GB and everything. I undid my lighting set-up and put it in my Mac Pro, but it doesn't look as nice since the Mac Pro's internals are more closed-up.
 
PowerMac G4 MDD said:
My Mac Pro has taken the place of my poor PowerMac G5 :(. It feels like a waste because I upgraded the RAM to 8GB and everything. I undid my lighting set-up and put it in my Mac Pro, but it doesn't look as nice since the Mac Pro's internals are more closed-up.
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You can use both the PowerMac G5 and Intel Mac Pro alternately. A friend of mine has both the PowerMac G5 and an Intel Mac Pro. He likes both machines. What he does is like this week he uses the G5 and the following week the Mac Pro and so on. He seems to enjoy using 2 kinds of machines at varied time frames.
 
Altemose said:
I am buying an iBook G4 to use as a school laptop pretty soon. I am rocking PowerPC until the end.
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I use the iBook G4 (800Mhz one that you were asking about) as my school laptop ;). Note-taking on this thing is very pleasant, and I don't have to worry about it as much as I would my MacBook Pro. It is pretty embarrassing--though--when I have to do a project with another student in class, and they ask me to make a Google Doc and share it with them... I have stall while the thing loads---Hahaha.

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Macsonic said:
You can use both the PowerMac G5 and Intel Mac Pro alternately. A friend of mine has both the PowerMac G5 and an Intel Mac Pro. He likes both machines. What he does is like this week he uses the G5 and the following week the Mac Pro and so on. He seems to enjoy using 2 kinds of machines at varied time frames.
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I will be doing this with PPC Macs now that I am once-again not using PPC solely. I will be using my iMac G5 as my schoolwork computer, at my work desk. The reason why I was skeptical about the PMG5 (even before I got my Mac Pro) is because it uses tons of power yet does less than my MacBook Pro does. It's not necessarily that I would prefer using the MBP over it--it's just that it seemed like a waste to suck tons of power with a desktop, when an efficient little MacBook Pro could do way more than the G5, yet use way less power. Also, the PowerMac G5 was becoming straining to use for long periods of time; I felt like I was running some nuclear reactor underneath my desk. This doesn't really have to do with PPC vs. Intel as much as it has to do with the machine itself. My iMac G5 isn't that quiet, but it has definitely simplified my set-up. I am saving the monster set-up for my Mac Pro, in our "computer room".

What I plan to do now is have the best of both worlds and use PPC and Intel side-by-side again, just like the last time (the first time) Intel made an entrance. I will be enjoying the comforts of my PowerPC Macs, yet at the same time, I'll be enjoying the luxuries of my speedy Mac Pro (I sort of need an Intel Mac anyway for the games I play, but otherwise I have great patience when it comes to computing, so older computers don't bother me as much as they bother others).
 
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PowerMac G4 MDD said:
I use the iBook G4 (800Mhz one that you were asking about) as my school laptop ;). Note-taking on this thing is very pleasant, and I don't have to worry about it as much as I would my MacBook Pro. It is pretty embarrassing--though--when I have to do a project with another student in class, and they ask me to make a Google Doc and share it with them... I have stall while the thing loads---Hahaha.
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My main programs for school include AirPort Utility, Microsoft Word 2008, Rosetta Stone V3, Leopard WebKit, and Mail. I don't think that should be a problem at all.
 
Same as always. I don't do anything overly complex on my PPC Macs. Mainly writing, music playing and web browsing machines with the occasional YouTube video thrown in.
 
My eMac will continue to be used as my jukebox until the day it dies. And then I'll pick up another one :p

My Cube is sat on the main setup, hooked up to my 23-inch Cinema Display via a KVM switch with the Hackintosh. I boot it up pretty frequently just to have a mess around really. One specific purpose it does have is whenever I'm writing or researching something, I choose to use the Cube over the Hackintosh as it's just so much quieter, meaning I can concentrate without having whirring fans around me.
 
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Altemose said:
My main programs for school include AirPort Utility, Microsoft Word 2008, Rosetta Stone V3, Leopard WebKit, and Mail. I don't think that should be a problem at all.
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Yep, that wouldn't be a problem---what model of iBook G4 are you getting? (I'm assuming something in the 1.33-1.42Ghz range?).

P.S. Make sure you have the RAM for Leopard and MS Word 2008!
 
Goftrey said:
My eMac will continue to be used as my jukebox until the day it days. And then I'll pick up another one :p

My Cube is sat on the main setup, hooked up to my 23-inch Cinema Display via a KVM switch with the Hackintosh. I boot up it up pretty frequently just to have a mess around really. One specific purpose it does have is whenever I'm writing or researching something, I choose to use the Cube over the Hackintosh as it's just so my quieter, meaning I can concentrate without having whirring fans around me.
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I know what you mean there; for me it's not really the noise--as I don't use my Cube--but the distraction of a modern computer with more capabilities. I don't get distracted like crazy, but like everyone, I sometimes get sidetracked while on my computer. It's nice to use a PowerPC Mac for work because they are a pleasure to use; however, I won't even bother loading YouTube or some other bloated site on one, and that helps keep me on-task!
 
This year will probably be the year I leave the PPC platform and maybe even Macs altogether. My main machine is a Intel windows pc that runs every thing I need, so there doesn't seem to be a use for my PowerBook or powermac anymore.
 
In my Quad that I sold this year I had a sata2 ssd, thing had 10gb ram as well and was super fast in booting and opening/closing apps.
 
Goftrey said:
My eMac will continue to be used as my jukebox until the day it dies. And then I'll pick up another one :p

My Cube is sat on the main setup, hooked up to my 23-inch Cinema Display via a KVM switch with the Hackintosh. I boot it up pretty frequently just to have a mess around really. One specific purpose it does have is whenever I'm writing or researching something, I choose to use the Cube over the Hackintosh as it's just so much quieter, meaning I can concentrate without having whirring fans around me.
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I use my eMac for music too!
 
I'll use my Powerbook G4 (1.5ghz, 768mb RAM) as just a secondary machine to my Windows PC, I'll browse the web on it using WebKit, watch YouTube (HTML5) on it, occasionally watch a movie with VLC, play some emulators with my Playstation 3 controller hooked up to it, et cetera. Recently, I bought a new battery for it on Amazon, since when I bought it off of eBay, the stock battery held 50-60% of its normal capacity, and has since dropped to 40%. I'm really happy with this Powerbook, :)
 
hellothere231 said:
I'll use my Powerbook G4 (1.5ghz, 768mb RAM) as just a secondary machine to my Windows PC, I'll browse the web on it using WebKit, watch YouTube (HTML5) on it, occasionally watch a movie with VLC, play some emulators with my Playstation 3 controller hooked up to it, et cetera. Recently, I bought a new battery for it on Amazon, since when I bought it off of eBay, the stock battery held 50-60% of its normal capacity, and has since dropped to 40%. I'm really happy with this Powerbook, :)
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Try YouView for YouTube.
 
Just got my first Mac this week, an ibook g4 12 inch 1.2 with 768 mb ram running Leopard. I'm just using it for word processing. Though tempted to see how minecraft works on it.
 
Blackomen said:
Just got my first Mac this week, an ibook g4 12 inch 1.2 with 768 mb ram running Leopard. I'm just using it for word processing. Though tempted to see how minecraft works on it.
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You may want to upgrade the RAM if you are running Leopard. It is doable, but I would never run Leopard on anything under 1 GB unless the machine did not support it. Minecraft would likely choke the machine with high CPU and GPU usage. I don't think it will be playable on there.
 
Altemose said:
Try YouView for YouTube.
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I used to, but I've recently been getting some really annoying moments where the video in YouView freezes for a little bit, then goes back to normal. I also used MacTubes after that, but the search option for it isn't that good, so that's why I've started to just go on the YouTube website and use HTML5.
 
hellothere231 said:
I used to, but I've recently been getting some really annoying moments where the video in YouView freezes for a little bit, then goes back to normal. I also used MacTubes after that, but the search option for it isn't that good, so that's why I've started to just go on the YouTube website and use HTML5.
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I never had an issue with YouView. Doesn't HTML5 stutter and cause high CPU usage?
 
Altemose said:
I never had an issue with YouView. Doesn't HTML5 stutter and cause high CPU usage?
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It does when I start a video, but it doesn't stutter as much as YouView for some reason. YouView actually never used to do this before, but now it does either when I pause the video, or fast forward it. Maybe it could be cause by my slow internet connection? I'm not sure.
 
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