Has anyone gotten one of these Raptor Computing Systems Talos PowerPC computers and run MacOS 10.5 and TenFourFox on it?

[2aw]

Raptor Computing Systems::Products

www.raptorcs.com

Seems like a modern PowerPC, it should be powerful enough to easily run MacOS 10.5 with some hacks and then you can install TenFourFox and be able to browse the internet on it.

Who knows, if these Raptor PCs get popular enough there might even be a version of Google Chrome that will come out and be able to run on PowerPCs.

The revolution is near!

 

[Amethyst1]

Seems like a modern PowerPC, it should be powerful enough to easily run MacOS 10.5 with some hacks and then you can install TenFourFox and be able to browse the internet on it.

You can run OS X and TenFourFox on them using QEMU+KVM. It's been done.

Is this "Part 3"? Why are you so keen on TenFourFox? These machines run Linux and have much more up-to-date browsers. Running OS X and TenFourFox would actually be crippling them.

Who knows, if these Raptor PCs get popular enough there might even be a version of Google Chrome that will come out and be able to run on PowerPCs.

Too niché, too expensive (IMHO) sadly.

 

[Hrududu]

POWER9 is a far cry from the PowerPC chip in the Macintosh. Closest obviously is the PowerPC 970 which was based on the POWER4 from 2001. There is some shared DNA there, but virtually zero chance Leopard would run on it.

 

[sailorMH]

In any case Talos is very interesting machine, of course powerful enough for KVM+MacOSX
In past I was thinking about it ( for linux of course ), but before I finished thinking, they several times increased the price :-(

 

[orionquest]

Can't wait for part 4. Curious what other hardware the OP digs up.

Eitherway this is a fun project, but I think if the OP is wading into unfamiliar hardware territory a pass might be a better option instead of frustration of trying and failing to make this work, for what seems like a limited use.
I could be completely wrong.

 

[TheShortTimer]

Can't wait for part 4. Curious what other hardware the OP digs up.

@B S Magnet already suggested the Nintendo Wii. It's easily hacked to run other stuff beyond commercially released games and it comes with a version of Opera.

I also suggested the Wii-U and the GameCube because they all use enhanced versions of the G3 and the Wii-U could play Netflix content in full 1080p.

 

[B S Magnet]

Raptor Computing Systems::Products

www.raptorcs.com

Seems like a modern PowerPC, it should be powerful enough to easily run MacOS 10.5 with some hacks and then you can install TenFourFox and be able to browse the internet on it.

Who knows, if these Raptor PCs get popular enough there might even be a version of Google Chrome that will come out and be able to run on PowerPCs.

The revolution is near!

This thread is unhelpful. QED.

p.s., Do you live in Lviv? I know a guy…

 

[TheShortTimer]

This thread is unhelpful. QED.

p.s., Do you live in Lviv? I know a guy…

 

[B S Magnet]

 

[barracuda156]

Raptor Computing Systems::Products

www.raptorcs.com

Seems like a modern PowerPC, it should be powerful enough to easily run MacOS 10.5 with some hacks and then you can install TenFourFox and be able to browse the internet on it.

Who knows, if these Raptor PCs get popular enough there might even be a version of Google Chrome that will come out and be able to run on PowerPCs.

The revolution is near!

More hopes for RISC-V.

Raptors are insanely expensive and have no laptops.

 

[lepidotós]

Seems like a modern PowerPC, it should be powerful enough to easily run MacOS 10.5 with some hacks and then you can install TenFourFox and be able to browse the internet on it.

Hacks... that involve totally rewriting the Mac OS to not need Open Firmware and not need a valid Mac identifier, and writing brand new drivers for every new commodity PCIe component to come out in the future.
TII/Blackbird are good PCs, but the closest you'll get is virtualizing a Mac or modifying hello or ravynOS. Personally I plan on getting one but I already have Power Macs and qemu's Power Mac virtualization runs about as fast as a real hardware G4 or early G5 tower with much more latency, so I'll just use a real Mac to run the Mac OS and a Blackbird as just my main workstation rig.​

 

[barracuda156]

Hacks... that involve totally rewriting the Mac OS to not need Open Firmware and not need a valid Mac identifier, and writing brand new drivers for every new commodity PCIe component to come out in the future.
TII/Blackbird are good PCs, but the closest you'll get is virtualizing a Mac or modifying hello or ravynOS. Personally I plan on getting one but I already have Power Macs and qemu's Power Mac virtualization runs about as fast as a real hardware G4 or early G5 tower with much more latency, so I'll just use a real Mac to run the Mac OS and a Blackbird as just my main workstation rig.​

Knew about hello, did not about ravynos. Sounds interesting, thanks. May try it out.