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Daily PPC users- Anything you can't do?
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Google Maps with TFFBox is a bit slow but still offers all features of Maps (including StreetView) on my PBG4 1.5GHz. That is one of the occasions I prefer TFF over webkit/Safari.
Another program I use to block ads (usually in Leopard-Webkit) is GlimmerBlocker. Just remember to add the pgl.yoyo list offered on their website, and you'll be good.
I just spent 3 months using a 1.67 PowerBook as my daily driver.
PS: I'm not posting this to hear what I can do differently. I like my PB exactly the way it is.
PPS: I have a dog that loves to tear blinds.
Hi, could you tell more about the tricks you did with webkit and yt-video?
I guess an mSATA would make your Office2008 experience much better. I prefer to use Office2004 over 2008 since it's much snappier and I therefore (and for the sake of Office2000 on Win2Kpro/WinXPpro/Win7pro) keep all my stuff at Office97-04-level.
Here's a video about booting times (first boot of each program on a freshly rebooted 12" PB-G4 1.5GHz with Leopard):
It's much faster than the latest Office on my MacBook2008 with ElCapitan.
To catch any idea Word'04/'08 are fast enough but I always use some text-oriented stuff like TextEdit, which beats them all...
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The hacks were all found on here. I honestly don't remember specifics. I already did an SD to IDE adapter for the hard drive. I'm basically running a 128 gig ssd. I use iWork for basically everything now.
Oh, if you already use an SSD somethings seems to be wrong with your 1.67GB PB settings.
On my PB Word&Excel (both '04 and '08) launch faster than Word'08 on your PB.
I couldn't load up my video of the booting of Office-apps yet. Will follow soon...
I'm still interested in that menu-bar to preset yt-video output.
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That's the Viewtube script installed via Greasemonky or Ninjakit - guide is here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/youtube-options-in-2016.1986056/#post-23195872
Last time I used my PPC for daily browsing was like 2013, tbh a powermac g5 works better editing 1080p video than it does browsing the resource heavy internet these days. And its really only a software problem, sigh
For web browsing I've noticed a significant difference between a dual core and a single core PowerMac G5. I've have a single processor 1.8GHz (PCI version) which I've used to browse the web for several years. It is common for it to beach ball and on occasion become unresponsive (the browser, the rest of the system is still responsive) while it chews through JavaScript code.
Switching to a dual core system, even the first generation 2.0GHz model, provides a much more pleasant browsing experience. Beach balling and an unresponsive browser are significantly reduced and it feels more like using a modern system.
Kind of sad that web browsing, of all things, is what impacts these systems the most.
It's almost like one core takes are of all the crap a website flings and the other one is working to have the main course of the site come up, isn't it?
Yep. If I have activity monitor running the single CPU is pegged at 100% almost the entire time. The same on a dual processor system shows high, but not 100%, CPU utilization on both processors. Sadly I think most of that is advertising which is why ad blockers can improve performance.It's almost like one core takes are of all the crap a website flings and the other one is working to have the main course of the site come up, isn't it?
SD Cards aren't designed for sustained reads and writes. It will probably go bad on you much faster than an mSATA drive would
Perhaps. But for now, I am having no troubles and lightning fast read/write speeds. I'll take my chances for now, probably replace it later. Thanks for the heads up though.
I do my taxes on PowerPC every year.Well, I can tell you one thing, I still can pay my taxes using TFF on my PPC G4 Quicksilver with no problems
Wealth redistribution is grand. I sure am glad PPC's are cheap.
I've been using a PPC PMG4 without any lasting problems for the last couple months. Something that I thought would be my file server has in fact become a daily driver for me (with a few upgrades I admit). In fact, the only thing that has bugged me about QSG4 10.4.11 is that I can't access my purchased music using Itunes 4.7.1 ... or at least I haven't found the work around yet. Aside from that, with the help of some basic TFF tweaks thanks to eyoungren, I haven't really felt much lacking. I mean it's not lightening fast and video buffers are longer but for a 15+ year old computer - I still am amazed at the longevity and usability of this PPC platform. Your video played just fine for me.
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I think the community here has done an amazing job at keeping these old Macs going, Kaiser with TFF, Erik and his tweaks, Gavin with a software archive, and now Tom with a very nice theme (should be here soon!) I love using my PPCs, but since I got my Mac Pro I haven't been using them as much... I pulled out my TiBook and DLSD yesterday and used them a bit, the KB on the AluBook is still the best IMO
SD cards are way slower than an actual SSD and will not sustain the increased Reads\Writes from a computer. Although they have extremely fast access times, the read and write speeds will be mediocre at best, and may be only a bit faster then a healthy HDD. In most cases a standard SD Card is slower than a Hard Drive
Maybe it's a CF card or something? I have seen people install OS X on an SD card, but it was for testing macs only
I have an IDE to CF adapter installed in one of the Power Mac G4s. It's an interesting beast, and a nice alternative to a mechanical hard drive. Tiger boots up a little faster on the CF card compared to an actual hard drive.
I believe him that its a SD card, but I dont understand why thats the option he chose. Like it works for him, but an mSata ssd makes way more sense to me