Is he an agent of chaos, despatched to set the noble PowerPC brethren against one another...there will be much weeping and gnashing of teeth before the new order gains ascendance 
Yes and no.Oh noes, are you telling me that PowerPCs were not the golden age of Apple computers and in reality they were not as good as everyone says they were back then?
(I am just being a bit sarcastic)
Over 4 posts with nearly a 100 replies the only other contextual information is the OP got a Macbook Pro in 2012.
Why not elaborate some @2aw ?
I have already moved on from PowerPC, I am currently looking for an Intel laptop from Apple.
Thank you all for taking the time and effort to answer my questions in the OP, you all have been very helpful.
What are you considering? You might want to post in the Early Intel forum for advice on models which would be a good value and those you'd likely want to avoid. It'll basically be the same cast of people that you see here.I have already moved on from PowerPC, I am currently looking for an Intel laptop from Apple.
Thank you all for taking the time and effort to answer my questions in the OP, you all have been very helpful.
It'll basically be the same cast of people that you see here.
Your quest is over......you already have one - a Macbook Pro.I am currently looking for an Intel laptop from Apple.
What he said.If you are wanting an old Apple desktop, I highly suggest looking into a 2009/2010/2012 Mac Pro, which can once upgraded with a Metal-capable GPU and SSD can run modern macOS releases like Monterey and Ventura just fine. A 2012 Mac mini could also be another option.
The modern internet is a huge CPU sink.
I envision the two this way. The early intel forum is full of N95 masks. PowerPC forum is full of Lucha Libre Mascaras.What are you considering? You might want to post in the Early Intel forum for advice on models which would be a good value and those you'd likely want to avoid. It'll basically be the same cast of people that you see here.
Sidebar: we are not characters! (well, except you know and also, you know…)
It’s also worth mentioning that a MorphOS license is not free. It’s 80 euros per machine.Morph has the fastest run of them all, but is highly picky.
He reached out to me recently on The Garden recently asking why some banking sites don’t work in TenFourFox as if I’d know because of my toolkit. 🤷♂️The last we heard from him, he was saying something like
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He reached out to me recently on The Garden recently asking why some banking sites don’t work in TenFourFox as if I’d know because of my toolkit. 🤷♂️
After reading this amusing review of the Power Mac G5 http://women-and-dreams.blogspot.com/2017/11/apple-power-macintosh-g5-flame-on.html
I usually don’t use desktops anymore (laptops are much more convenient), but I have an extra monitor + keyboard + mouse set. Should I get a used Power Mac G5 (they can be gotten for a good price in the local classified if you wait long enough), upgrading to either 4 GB / 8 GB / 16 GB of RAM: https://everymac.com/actual-maximum-mac-ram/actual-maximum-power-mac-g5-ram-capacity.html and use it to browse the internet with TenFourFox?
According to the link above, the:
Fastest 2 x dual CPU G5 geekbench is 3316
Fastest dual CPU G5 geekbench is 2259
Fastest dual core G5 geekbench is 2082
Fastest single core G5 Geekbench is 1047 (is this too slow?)
Fastest iMac G5 Geekbench is 1106 https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac_g5_2.1_20.html (is this too slow? Also see the lack of RAM on the iMac G5 compared to the Power Mac G5)
I would have a nicely designed aesthetic tower computer case and I theorize that a G5 with 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB of RAM (would even 4 GB work, is that still too low for the modern web? I have 16 GB on my MacBook Pro and I wouldn’t go any lower if I was buying a new laptop today) should be fast enough for TenFourFox.
What do you all think?
- What is the minimum G5 CPU I should get?
- I think an SSD upgrade would be good too, they keep dropping in price.
- What is the noise level of the Power Mac G5’s? I like my computers to be very quiet, would I be able to swap out the stock fans for quiet (or almost silent) ones?
What can be improved on this idea?
Fortunately, this is not an issue with a G5. Thanks to the limitations of Apple's implementation of PPC, you get up to 2GB of RAM per application, regardless of how much memory you actually had in your G5. To get more internet you would have to fire up another instance of TFF somehow.The "modern" Web with a G5 is no fun.
Even if you are part of the User-Agent-Changer-Gang.
This is not a hardware-problem, that would be cool:
The more RAM i have, the more "Internet" i get.
Bwaahaaahaaa. Hoo, I quickly began avoiding any posts s/he/they either began, and abandoned others that s/he/they onvolved themselves with....He reached out to me recently on The Garden recently asking why some banking sites don’t work in TenFourFox as if I’d know because of my toolkit. 🤷♂️
Bwaahaaahaaa. Hoo, I quickly began avoiding any posts s/he/they either began, and abandoned others that s/he/they onvolved themselves with....
He was unapologetically, indisputably a dude — it was, literally, right there in his name…
...along with his photograph too.