First Mac Ever (iBook G4)

[eyoungren]

Yes, the batteries are working great!

I've been having a lot fun these past few days. I'm amazed how relevant and functional the iBook G4 is in 2014, even though at times it slows down to a crawl. But nothing beats that feeling of new discoveries as I delve deep into this machine and operating system. This experience has made me consider getting an iPhone next year. I've always been solely an Android user. What a conversion I've made!

If you have the opportunity to buy an older iPhone (or even an iPod Touch) I would. I'm not saying get it activated and use it as a phone, but I'm suggesting this as a way to acclimate yourself to iOS. I did this with a 3GS about a year before I bought my iPhone 5. By the time I got that phone I had jailbroken the 3GS at least twice and was comfortable with iOS.

Keep in mind too, that as of the iPhone 5 there is no later model iPhone that will sync with our older Macs. The last iPhone capable of syncing with PowerPC Macs was the iPhone 4S and ONLY if the 4S is running iOS 6. A lot of iPhone 4S owners who upgraded to iOS 7 but had PowerPC Macs found this out the hard way.

 

[PowerMac G4 MDD]

Doesn't Webkit upgrade your browser to Safari 5.0.6?

IDK, the Webkit I have used was a stand-alone browser. Just make sure you don't update the default Safari to Safari 5 if you haven't already. Although with Leopard+all the software updates, I am sure it already has been updated to 5. In that specific case, I would stay away from Safari unless for some reason it's not slow. Safari 5 was controversial in that way.

 

[nineteen73]

Last week I downgraded back to Safari 4.0.5, then I installed the Webkit application only. I've been using WebKit more often than TFF. Those times I've used TenForFox is when WebKit is acting funky on a particular site. In fact, TTF handles webmail better than WebKit.

 

[nineteen73]

Yesterday I received the three sticks of 1gb RAM I ordered via eBay for our iBooks. Installation wa super easy and now we each have 1.25gb of RAM. The kids and I are really falling in love with these little PPCs.

Last weekend we visited an Apple store and we dreamed one day of upgrading to tge MacBook Pro. My son especially liked the 15-inch models with a dedicated graphics card. I for one can't decided if a 13-inch Air or Pro is the way to go. Although, I'm heavily leaning toward a Pro for more processing power and features.

 

[eyoungren]

Yesterday I received the three sticks of 1gb RAM I ordered via eBay for our iBooks. Installation wa super easy and now we each have 1.25gb of RAM. The kids and I are really falling in love with these little PPCs.

Last weekend we visited an Apple store and we dreamed one day of upgrading to tge MacBook Pro. My son especially liked the 15-inch models with a dedicated graphics card. I for one can't decided if a 13-inch Air or Pro is the way to go. Although, I'm heavily leaning toward a Pro for more processing power and features.

I am very happy to see the process of your conversion to Mac. For me, it took quite a while but the deciding factor was when I'm sitting there in the rubble of my last PC crash and my inability to rescue any of my data and realizing that the Macs at work just worked. That for me was enough.

Of course it helped too that the 17" PowerBooks just looked awesome.

In any case, it's nice to see that the old PowerPC Macs still have the power to move people.