Got a powermac g4 what did I get?

[Altemose]

Upgrade hard drive then either get a torrent for OS X or get MintPPC

No piracy.

 

[Schaftenau]

Have a 750 Watt PSU in my Quicksilver and a Motherboard Mini with 3.4 Ghz Quad to fit. Shall be ok then with 16 Gb Ram and Ubuntu on

 

[gooser]

I also got a couple of QuickSilver 2002s recently, if you like tinkering with older stuff they are great.

Put a OS 9 install in and head over to Macintosh garden, lots of classic software to pass some time on a cold day. Also grabbed a old CRT monitor as the older games run at lower resolutions that look better on a CRT I find than scaled down on a LCD.

The speed of the older machines does not matter much for OS 9 stuff, your 733 is fine.

Next I want to find a Cube to add to the collection.

Many judge them on how they run today's software, but to me at least that is not the point.
I have machines that can run today's programs fine, but it's neat to have some classic macs running software from that era.

there's a lot of wisdom in this post.

 

[drnebulous]

No piracy.