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Favorite Power Mac G4 model?
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Really?My QS has color!
Erik, I am worried about you working as graphic designer seen color there.
Compare G3 color with G4s can not be more black and white.
All G4s pale close to a B&W G3. They look like lisas...
Me too!You didn't see the blue light from the LEDs mounted on my two case fans?
LOL! I know what you're getting at, I was just joking with you.
I stripped all the original paint off the plastics using surgical alcohol. It took ages to to do. (Days) and gave me such a headache.
Then, once all the paint was off I repainted all the inside of the plastics to graphite grey.
It is my daily mac, I have another quicksilver, all the flavours of the G3 slot loaders, and some of the compact macs, but they are not for modding.
Then, once all the paint was off I repainted all the inside of the plastics to graphite grey.
It is my daily mac, I have another quicksilver, all the flavours of the G3 slot loaders, and some of the compact macs, but they are not for modding.
Ha. Haven't had my coffee yet. Thats easily my G4 Cube. I mean that thing is cool!
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Definitely my QuickSilver 2001 867 MHZ. The machine is built like a tank, and looks so great too! I have upgraded it, but I also like to keep a stock look on my Macs, so I got the original mouse/keyboard and monitor for it as well. It looks and runs as great! I actually found it on the side of the road without the RAM or a HD, along with a Sawtooth, but I accidentally killed the Sawtooth when I tried to put a Geforce 5200FX in the AGP slot and mangled it to heck. But my QuickSilver is still chugging along, and I sometimes remove the Intel iMac and place that on my desk just for the pleasure of using it!
Thanks for starting the thread!
Definitely my QuickSilver 2001 867 MHZ. The machine is built like a tank, and looks so great too! I have upgraded it, but I also like to keep a stock look on my Macs, so I got the original mouse/keyboard and monitor for it as well. It looks and runs as great! I actually found it on the side of the road without the RAM or a HD, along with a Sawtooth, but I accidentally killed the Sawtooth when I tried to put a Geforce 5200FX in the AGP slot and mangled it to heck. But my QuickSilver is still chugging along, and I sometimes remove the Intel iMac and place that on my desk just for the pleasure of using it!
Thanks for starting the thread!
Within 4 hours of owning mine I replaced the fans, my god what a difference! Much more tolerable, but my 2.7 G5 is still much more quieter than the MDD.
MDD, or the Cube. I still have my OB MDD FW800 1.25, I would like to bump it to 1.42 if I can find a cheap processor. Did they make faster processor cards?
Apple did not.
Sonnet, NewerTech and Giga Designs did. However, I don't recall seeing any for an MDD. Most of the cards I've seen by those companies were for the Sawtooth, DA and Quicksilvers.
My QS has a dual 1.73Ghz card. Faster than the MDDs and the 1.6Ghz G5.
I've heard of 2.0Ghz cards using the 7448 G4 processor. Keeping my eye out for those. Rare and expensive.
I thought I remembered 3rd party cards, but I probably would have hunted one down if they existed. I have been looking for a 1.42 card, rare and expensive.
Sort of on topic, where do you guys find your old Macs? I'm in the US and I peruse Craigslist and ebay. Rare on craigslist and shipping is expensive on ebay.
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Right, the G4 Xserve used the same processor cards, it's all coming back to me now. Thanks. I know where all the PPC experts hang out now!
Most of my Macs were eBay purchases. It's starting to change now, but at the times I bought the sellers tended not to be Mac users so were not aware of what they had. Things like the flashing question mark on boot, or other minor issues caused them to be listed as for parts or repair.
In 2010 I got a 17" 1.67Ghz PowerBook G4, HD-DLSD for $252. A decent price at the time, not what I'd pay now, but the seller never mentioned that it was the HD-DLSD version in the auction. Had he done that he could have gotten at least another $100. The seller had dropped it on a corner. A little metal bending and it looks ok. Not great, but ok. Better still, it worked fine.
My son's PB was $25. I replaced the screen (I had a spare). My wife's PB was $50. I replaced the screen for $25. All because these Macs were listed in the repair/parts category. My wife's Mac rolled down a flight of stairs and my son's Mac was a business liquidation.
My QS however, I got because I knew someone on here who was selling it. I got my iMac G5 and iMac G3 free from the same guy. With accessories.
Yes, like how the Pismo won't startup with a dead PRAM battery, got a great loaded 500Mhz that way.
That's a beautiful paint job, I like my case mods to be as close to stock looking as possible, but that looks gorgeous!
My favourite G4 model is the cube.
Same as how I got my free Sawtooth dead PRAM battery, wouldn't boot. I'd walked into a ghetto Tech Repair to have a look and asked about PPC machines that had and the guy told me "that pos in the corner, just take it" so I did.
To this day it's my favorite PPC machine, but wont read tiger; disc 2. Now it just sits under the desk with no OS.
Someone I know had one of those 2GHz cards, he sold the computer although I did try to buy the processor!
This was last week, but he wanted to sell the entire computer, didn't like Apple stuff and always has PCs.
