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Does anyone have more PowerPC Macs than I do?

Intell said:
The ATI 2600 handles newer versions of OS X well. Not amazingly well, but much better than one would think it does.
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So do you think that I could be able to run Mountain Lion (or later) comfortably, or is is something that will put a good amount of stress on my GPU?

I am definitely worried about my second card though, as it's a 7300 GT.

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128keaton said:
I have an awful GT210. I can iMessage from my machine, and even use phone call forwarding.
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I have the feeling that Yosemite is better for these systems than Mountain Lion, but I'd rather have ML.

Are you experiencing choppy graphics on your machine at all?
 
Seeing as how the 2007 iMac with the less powerful ATI 2400 handles 10.10's transparency well, the ATI 2600 should perform just as well if not better.
 
Intell said:
Seeing as how the 2007 iMac with the less powerful ATI 2400 handles 10.10's transparency well, the ATI 2600 should perform just as well if not better.
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I have a Radeon 6790 that I need to order the power cable for lol, I also hope to upgrade the CPUs to Quad Core ones.
 
Okay---then hopefully Mountain Lion will do. Thanks for your input, as I hadn't been able to get a clear answer from people on the Mac Pro forum, except for those who said the graphics would be choppy.

Now to see how my second card (my 7300 GT) would handle this...
 
PowerMac G4 MDD said:
Okay---then hopefully Mountain Lion will do. Thanks for your input, as I hadn't been able to get a clear answer from people on the Mac Pro forum, except for those who said the graphics would be choppy.

Now to see how my second card (my 7300 GT) would handle this...
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Why not Mavericks, since it is basically an improved version of Mountain Lion?
 
Southern Dad said:
Actually they were 3,1 and 4,1 machines. I still use two of them. One is used with an El Gato game capture card to catch all the fun stuff that the girls do on the Xbox One and PS4. (The Wii doesn't have an HDMI port.) The other we use as that main computer of the house that is never actually used. it's the one on the desktop in the photo. It is the place where all the photos, songs and other media is stored and where our iPhones/iPads sync too.

Sometimes, I use it but normally, I use my MacBook Pro and the girls use their MacBooks.



There are several good government auctions but here are two. GovDeals and GSA Auctions. NEVER FAIL TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON A WON AUCTION. They will ban you forever and send collections after you.

On the kids building them, I cheat a bit. Often, I'm disassembling what they will be reassembling prior to their arrival. It helps to avoid failures.

A little girl named Amanda tells me the other day that she determined her mother's Dell has a bad VGA port. Keep in mind, she's 12. I asked her how she knows that the VGA port is bad. She rolls her eyes at me and then tells me that she tested the monitor and the cable on another computer. The Dell is still coming to life but the monitor doesn't have anything on it. So she Googled it. She went on to tell me that Dells are junk. But she got a VGA card from another Windows computer. Now her parents think she's a computer genius.

Check out this auction listing in Texas on the GSA site

And this one says it is an unknown MacBook. It's a mid-2010 13" MacBook Pro. Bid is at $73, ends in 3 hours.

If you've got an extra $3500 lying around here's 70 MacBooks (2007 & 2008), that comes to around $50 each.
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Do you know of any websites like this in the UK? If not, what should I search on Google to find one?

Thanks
 
I think I'm up to 48, and am working deals on two more.

Old World ROM:

7100
7350 WGS
8500
8600
G3 desktop 266mhz
G3 desktop w/400mhz G3 from a B&W
G3 Minitower 266mhz
G3 Mintower Server with 10K UW-SCSI drives in RAID
(working on a 9600 and a heavily upgraded G3 minitower)

New World ROM:

iMacs:
Bondi Blue rev. A(doesn't work)
Indigo G3
17" G4 1.25ghz

Powermac G3s:
B&W 300mhz rev. A
B&W 400mhz rev. B
B&W upgraded to 450mhz G4(rev. B)

Powermac G4:
Yikes! 350mhz
Sawtooth 400mhz
GigE dual 500mhz
2x DA 533mhz
Dual 800mhz Quicksilver
QS2002 w/Gigadesigns dual 1.8ghz upgrade, currently running at 1.6ghz
QS2002 factory dual 1ghz
Another QS currently without a processor, waiting for something fun
MDD dual 867mhz
MDD dual 1ghz
2x MDD2003 single 1.25
FW800 single 1ghz
G4 Cube 450mhz x2
G4 Cube 500mhz

Powermac G5:
Single 1.8ghz, first generation
Dual core 2.0ghz

Xserve G5, dual 2.0ghz

Laptops
iBook G3 "Clamshell" Indigo 366mhz FW
iBook G3 "snow", 800mhz 14"
iBook G4 1.02ghz 12"
iBook G4 1.25ghz 12"
iBook G4 1.33ghz 12"(need to take apart and install HDD)
Powerbook G3 "Pismo"
Powerbook G4 Titanium 400mhz
Powerbook G4 Titanium 867mhz
Powerbook G4 Titanium 1ghz w/Combo Drive
Powerbook G4 Titanium 1ghz w/Superdrive
Powerbook G4 Al 12" 1.5ghz(typing this from it)
Powerbook G4 Al 12" 1.5ghz w/mSATA SSD
Powerbook G4 Al A1138 15" DLSD w/SSD
Powerbook G4 Al A1139 17" DLSD w/SSD
 
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Southern Dad said:
Many of them have went to my daughter's friends. A dozen went to her elementary school. That took an act of the mayor, almost literally. I don't see many PowerPC laptops go through the government auctions. I have gotten a few white Intel MacBooks but trust me, my daughter always knows a friend that needs one.

We don't just give the kids an eMac. They have to find the right ram, install it, then find a hard drive, install it. They format them, do all updates on them. Trust me, they come away with a little more understanding of how it works.



You would be surprised at how many government agencies are getting rid of eMacs these days. Mostly schools. When you buy one of these auctions you have to carry away all the pallets that day. They are often surprise packages. One day, I bought an auction lot. It said five pallets of computers. The photo showed a couple short pallets but I saw three Intel Mac Pros on one of the pallets (two disk drive slots) so I bought the lot. It went for a couple hundred dollars. When I got there, I found that one of the pallets had 24 G-5's shrink wrapped. Another pallet had cinema monitors. The Mac Pros that I had seen and three Mac Minis.

So you never know what you are going to get. I used a forklift getting the pallets into my trailer but it was all me getting them out.
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Woah, you got TWENTY FOUR brand new PM G5s?! 3 Mac Pros, 3 Minis and a whole pallet of Apple monitors? What are you going to do with all those? And also how much did they cost, I'm curious!
 
Gamer9430 said:
I know it's none of my business, and I don't mind if you don't tell me, but getting anything good?
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They're listed in my edited post above, but I'm working on a 9600 200mhz MP(one of the few OWR multi-processor computers that Apple made) and a souped-up G3 minitower with a G4 upgrade, Radeon 7000, and 15K SCSI drives.

I've wanted a 9600 for a while, even though I have an 8600 which is actually very similar. The 9600 goes down in history as being the most expandable Mac ever made, with 6 PCI slots and 12 RAM slots. Plus, the fact that it's dual processor has me really excited.

Both are being offered to me for the cost of shipping-but that's still not an insignificant amount of money.
 
keremtezcan said:
Do you know of any websites like this in the UK? If not, what should I search on Google to find one?

Thanks
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I don't know how government auctions work in the UK, sorry.

keremtezcan said:
Woah, you got TWENTY FOUR brand new PM G5s?! 3 Mac Pros, 3 Minis and a whole pallet of Apple monitors? What are you going to do with all those? And also how much did they cost, I'm curious!
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They weren't brand new but certainly not abused. That lot has been a while but I believe it went for around $575. Last month, I got one of my best deals ever, a dozen Mac Minis for $25.
 
keremtezcan said:
Do you know of any websites like this in the UK? If not, what should I search on Google to find one?

Thanks
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Schools etc don't have a central disposal facility. They tend to engage local auctioneers on an individual basis as and when. I knew of an auctioneer neer the centre of Birmingham that regularly held disposals of unclaimed stolen property that the police released. That disappeared a few years back and was the closest thing I knew to what the GSA handles. Probably the best place to pick up a Mac anything.

Remember also that schools in the UK have nothing like the amount of Apple gear that US schools do. Most likely you will end up with some old Dell or HP stuff. Try looking at your local schools and universities. Some handle their own auctions, like Kent Uni

http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/systems/faq/auction/index.html

I have seen schools dispose of old iBooks and the like on eBay. The condition of those is as you can imagine and you have to be prepared to buy in bulk and collect. They rarely ship.
 
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weckart said:
Schools etc don't have a central disposal facility. They tend to engage local auctioneers on an individual basis as and when. I knew of an auctioneer neer the centre of Birmingham that regularly held disposals of unclaimed stolen property that the police released. That disappeared a few years back and was the closest thing I knew to what the GSA handles. Probably the best place to pick up a Mac anything.

Remember also that schools in the UK have nothing like the amount of Apple gear that US schools do. Most likely you will end up with some old Dell or HP stuff. Try looking at your local schools and universities. Some handle their own auctions, like Kent Uni

http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/systems/faq/auction/index.html

I have seen schools dispose of old iBooks and the like on eBay. The condition of those is as you can imagine and you have to be prepared to buy in bulk and collect. They rarely ship.
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Wow, great answer man. You answered all my questions!!
Now that I think about it, it's a shame there are far less Macs in the UK, especially older ones. (Sold when Apple wasn't as well known)

Also 'Southern Dad' is probably the luckiest guy I know! 12 Mac minis for 16 quid, one of those would be cheaper than a chocolate bar! :eek:
 
keremtezcan said:
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Also 'Southern Dad' is probably the luckiest guy I know! 12 Mac minis for 16 quid, one of those would be cheaper than a chocolate bar! :eek:
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My best deal was 10 PowerBooks and a Macbook Pro for £16, too, incidentally. I have about half of those up and running already. A couple look beyond help, the rest I will look at when I have more time.
 
weckart said:
My best deal was 10 PowerBooks and a Macbook Pro for £16, too, incidentally. I have about half of those up and running already. A couple look beyond help, the rest I will look at when I have more time.
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Wow, that's even better! If you have 10 PBs and a MBP and live in the UK, I can buy one of the working ones off you for a couple quid if you want! Maybe even trade a few of them for a Quad G5?

What condition are they in, btw? That's a great deal you got there.
 
PowerMac G4 MDD said:
I have the feeling that Yosemite is better for these systems than Mountain Lion, but I'd rather have ML.

Are you experiencing choppy graphics on your machine at all?
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I feel that graphics performance was noticeably improved for systems with weaker GPU's first in Mavericks, and then in Yosemite again.
 
weckart said:
My best deal was 10 PowerBooks and a Macbook Pro for £16, too, incidentally. I have about half of those up and running already. A couple look beyond help, the rest I will look at when I have more time.
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:eek: :eek: :eek:

:(
 
keremtezcan said:
Haha, IKR. I'm curious to know where weckart got that awesome deal?!
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I'll let you into a secret: It wasn't Harrods. I got the number wrong or there might have been another slipped in when I collected. Can't remember now as there have been quite a few since. The seller said all the batteries were dead but both the TiBooks' were virtually unused and giving well over 3hrs each. Pretty sure the MBP battery has plenty of juice in it, too. Those alone were worth the selling price.
 

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