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How am I going to use PPCs?
Here's my setup: At breakfast I use the iBook G4 1.33 for reading the news and listen to the ‘Lunduke Hour’ podcast (I share his love for Linux and his hatred for Ubuntu/Canonical but unlike him I’m still in love with Macs).
In the University I use my PowerBook G4 1.67 Al for writing, Photoshop CS3, Programming in Eclipse Kepler, Spotify and study related web browsing.
At home I use my ‘trio of awesomeness’ - a Mac Mini G4 1.5 for accounting, movies, web browsing and ‘homework’. Right beside the Mini is my eMac, currently primary used for Spotify/iTunes and watching movies while working on the Mini. The last member of the trio is my newly acquired PoerBook 1400c/166 (sadly no G3 upgrade and no optical drive) which I use to write emails or the articles for this blog because of it’s great desktop like keyboard.
This is btw my daily setup! I further do have a powerful windows 10 tower standing underneath my desk which I use only for modern tasks like Netflix, Games, 20+ tabs chrome browsing if needed for my studies, a virtual machine with Linux for some tasks and one online game. As none of these tasks is mandatory for my daily life I convinced I can get through the week without any real problems. Of course I will miss the occasional Call of Duty 4 games and Netflix as well as the online game (Forge of Empires). But I have quite the experience of living without these things as I regularly go on one week hiking trips without any technical device at all (with the exception of an emergency phone of course).
That all being said I’m happy to be a member of such a great community and I hope we all will have much fun during ‘the week’.
Day2
I skip the first day because I had no time for using a computer.
Day 2 now... wow! I’m very impressed how capable these old machines are! Yesterday I worked on the PB and eMac and did massive multitasking on both. The PB reached 133°F (56°C) with fan settings as in the picture below whereas the eMacs HDD (only temp sensor) settled at 123°F (51°C). I have a feeling that’s way too much but at the moment there’s not much I can do or want to do about it. The fan speed is controllable through a Zalman Fan Mate 2 and my default should be approx 6-7v – I can hear the fan but it’s not disturbing.
I didn’t use T4F on the eMac since october last year. I updated to FP1, applied all tweaks, installed bluhellFW and uMatrix, customized the latter a bit and violà – it’s a quite good browsing experience. I don’t know why but after customizing uMatrix I don’t have any lags (maybe a few milliseconds) typing on MRF with rich text editor enabled!
Today I improved the sound of my eMac a lot, but the setup a bit tricky and I hope someone might help me to improve it. Music is played on the PB which is connected to my old Logitech 2.1 soundsystem. But instead of having speakers plugged in I connected the audio out with the eMacs microphone port which is routed to the internal speakers via Audio-MIDI-Setup. Yeah, why so complicated? The soundsystems speakers are dead

Is there any advanced audio routing software allowing me eMac headphone plug -> soundsystem -> eMac microphone -> eMac speakers? That would help a lot make it more useful.
So far I’m content with using only PPCs, but with the exception of the eBay and Amazon website – very slow in LWK and not usable because of the scripts in T4F.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that the PB is hoocked to a 23" 1920x1080 monitor in clamshell mode
