Post Your PowerPC Setup

[Smithwick’s]

Hi everyone. I figured this was a good thread to introduce myself as a longtime lurker and new member. I got into collecting PPC Macs a few years back when trying to collect all the iBook G3 colors. Still haven't accomplished that but I do have quite a collection otherwise. Don't currently have an easy way of photographing them all but my collection, in brief:

Power Mac G5 2.3 DC (Late 2005) with a flashed NV Quadro FX, currently quad-booting Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, and Adelie.
iMac G4 20-inch 1.25, dual-booting Tiger and Snow Leopard.
iBook Clamshells (Blue, Indigo, and Graphite, plus an extra parts machine)
iBook G4 1.2 running Tiger
PowerBook G4 (Ti) 867MHz running OS 9 (I run it headless because the dreaded hinges gave up the ghost)
PBG4 1.67 17" running OpenBSD
PBG4 1.5 12" running Tiger (w/Shuriken) - I would love to get OS 9 working on it

My usual go-to is to nix the HDD for an mSATA-IDE SSD and max the RAM, typically do a thorough cleaning/dusting/repasting/repadding as well.

I also have a few 68k Macs (a PowerBook 170 and a rebuild-in-progress Portable)

Hope to share some images of the collection with y'all sometime, in the meantime I'm happy to be here! I definitely owe the community a lot of collective thank yous for the headaches you've helped me resolve, haha. Figured joining was a good way to finally return the favor in some way.

 

[keksikuningas]

Foremost there's an electric table, adjusted to low-most height of it in the picture. You could think this more like a set-up to be, when it's time for me to retire and start tinkering all around PPC.

beautiful setup. Is this your personal workshop of some kind? What else do you have in there besides the aforementioned Macs and HP computers?

 

[mikas]

Thanks, can't remember exactly to be honest. From Mac Plus to, IIci to multiple cMPs, and dare I say it here, a Mac Studio M4 Max as the newest. The first Apple Silicon ever I've used myself. It's going through me only, installing and testing it, and soon it will become a workstation for my colleague at work.

And a lot of HP workstations and couple of Lenovo too. A few Apple laptops only, and intel era only.

To keep it On-Topic, I'll say I do own quite some of the Beige PPC, translucent PPC and aluminum PPC too.

 

[MacOsX10.5LeopardUser]

Hi everyone. I figured this was a good thread to introduce myself as a longtime lurker and new member. I got into collecting PPC Macs a few years back when trying to collect all the iBook G3 colors. Still haven't accomplished that but I do have quite a collection otherwise. Don't currently have an easy way of photographing them all but my collection, in brief:

Power Mac G5 2.3 DC (Late 2005) with a flashed NV Quadro FX, currently quad-booting Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, and Adelie.
iMac G4 20-inch 1.25, dual-booting Tiger and Snow Leopard.
iBook Clamshells (Blue, Indigo, and Graphite, plus an extra parts machine)
iBook G4 1.2 running Tiger
PowerBook G4 (Ti) 867MHz running OS 9 (I run it headless because the dreaded hinges gave up the ghost)
PBG4 1.67 17" running OpenBSD
PBG4 1.5 12" running Tiger (w/Shuriken) - I would love to get OS 9 working on it

My usual go-to is to nix the HDD for an mSATA-IDE SSD and max the RAM, typically do a thorough cleaning/dusting/repasting/repadding as well.

I also have a few 68k Macs (a PowerBook 170 and a rebuild-in-progress Portable)

Hope to share some images of the collection with y'all sometime, in the meantime I'm happy to be here! I definitely owe the community a lot of collective thank yous for the headaches you've helped me resolve, haha. Figured joining was a good way to finally return the favor in some way.

Nice setup