Some time before I got laid off from that electronics recycling/reselling company when they began financially suffering, I acquired another PowerPC computer for my vintage Mac collection:
A 14" iBook G4 from 2005! It's got the 1.42 GHz G4 chip and a slot-loading SuperDrive. When I got it, someone had kind of damaged the case prying it open to get the hard drive out, so I had to do a little fixing up to it. (I may also need to re-fasten the internal speaker connection, as if handled too much the sound can go off and on.) I maxed out the RAM to 1.5 GB, and ordered a replacement hard drive connector and the appropriate IDE-to-mSATA adapter and put a 256 GB SSD in it, like I did with my two PowerBook G4s. Here's when I installed Mac OS X Tiger on the SSD...
Transferring documents from my Titanium PowerBook G4 via Target Disk Mode...
Needless to say, once I got it connected to the Internet I updated it to version 10.4.11.
It really satisfies me to see that message on the Macintosh Repository site when I open it up on one of my PowerPC Macs.
Unlike my PowerMac G4 MDD and my aluminum PowerBook G4 running iLife '06, for this I installed iLife '05, to celebrate its 20th anniversary! Here's iPhoto 5, the first one to implement photo book creation, slideshow creation, some more advanced image editing features, and RAW support. Those photos are from when I went to Anthro New England 2025 more than a week ago!
iMovie HD 5, the first version of Apple's popular video editing software to support HDV and 16:9 widescreen footage! It also introduced the automated "Magic iMovie" feature. (The Big Bad Wolf cosplay footage here is standard-definition DV.)
A 14" iBook G4 from 2005! It's got the 1.42 GHz G4 chip and a slot-loading SuperDrive. When I got it, someone had kind of damaged the case prying it open to get the hard drive out, so I had to do a little fixing up to it. (I may also need to re-fasten the internal speaker connection, as if handled too much the sound can go off and on.) I maxed out the RAM to 1.5 GB, and ordered a replacement hard drive connector and the appropriate IDE-to-mSATA adapter and put a 256 GB SSD in it, like I did with my two PowerBook G4s. Here's when I installed Mac OS X Tiger on the SSD...
Transferring documents from my Titanium PowerBook G4 via Target Disk Mode...
Needless to say, once I got it connected to the Internet I updated it to version 10.4.11.
It really satisfies me to see that message on the Macintosh Repository site when I open it up on one of my PowerPC Macs.
Unlike my PowerMac G4 MDD and my aluminum PowerBook G4 running iLife '06, for this I installed iLife '05, to celebrate its 20th anniversary! Here's iPhoto 5, the first one to implement photo book creation, slideshow creation, some more advanced image editing features, and RAW support. Those photos are from when I went to Anthro New England 2025 more than a week ago!
iMovie HD 5, the first version of Apple's popular video editing software to support HDV and 16:9 widescreen footage! It also introduced the automated "Magic iMovie" feature. (The Big Bad Wolf cosplay footage here is standard-definition DV.)
