That results in an Intell only binary plugin that doesn't work at all on PowerPC Macs. It'll bypass the Installer checks, but it won't run.
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What to do with an old PowerMac G5
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That results in an Intell only binary plugin that doesn't work at all on PowerPC Macs. It'll bypass the Installer checks, but it won't run.
I tested it in 2009, the results were it didn't work. Safari and Firefox saw the plugin, but it never did anything. Feel free to test it.
I actually tested that last year. I got really excited after people talked about how bypassing the install check makes it work. It installs but does not work sadly.
It worked on a few sites back when it was first introduced many have tried it and a few succeeded.
I feel there is no way to test this now as all sites have moved on.
I decided to temporarily convert my Mac menagerie to a conversion station. My Dual 2.0 G5 is going to rip and convert all of my DVDs while I meander around the web with a MDD Dual 1.25.
I finished the layout and setup this morning. As I type, HandBrake 0.5.2 (running on Tiger 10.4.11) is converting a movie at between 35 & 45 FPS, roughly 90 minutes to complete. I set the target size to 950 MB and it's running OK without any issues. The time required is roughly equivalent to what I use in OpenShiiva.
Sure, the Mac Pros can do much better, but for an older Mac, I'm fine with that.
I checked out their website, they don't really have much information but it may be worth trying out. Ill have to make sure that my G5 is one of the 2 they support.
Have you used it? Whats it like? I cant tell if its a slimmed down linux system or not.
Install a word processor on it and donate it if you don't want to keep it, if you do, I don't know what to tell you. It's hard to come up with uses for a computer you don't need or use. Especially when you have newer, more functional ones at your disposal. If it were a windows machine of that age we were dealing with, the answer would be simple, it could work with anything a PC from 2014 can with no workarounds. The same can't be said for PPC sadly. Hell, right now I'm on a PC from 2006 (just something I set up today for ***** and giggles) and it's running Windows 7, Office 2013, Firefox 29, playing YouTube all without a hiccup. I can put in a USB3.0 card, a blu ray drive and any other peripheral I wanted and it would work right out of the box.
Best of luck in finding what to use your G5 for. Worst comes to worst it can be a room heater for next winter. If you have kids or a guest room you could set it up in there. Or put it in a workshop or garage to use there assuming you have or can get internet connectivity to those areas.
Best of luck in finding what to use your G5 for. Worst comes to worst it can be a room heater for next winter. If you have kids or a guest room you could set it up in there. Or put it in a workshop or garage to use there assuming you have or can get internet connectivity to those areas.
While I agree with your answer, I do not think that the whole PPC to PC equivalent is a fair fight. Something had to give and the fact that the whole architecture changed gives the tip to PC.
Now if Apple stuck with PowerPC, and you compared it to a PC of the same time frame, then the results may be surprising. But, I guess we'll never know.
Ehh I don't know that saying that is fair either, since the PPCs apple has been very quick to stop supporting things. Mavericks doesn't run on older intel macs, some do but graphics cards aren't supported, iOS is a fragmented mess with what will and will not work. I love all my macs and apple products but fact is when it comes to "older" hardware PC lets you keep things more relevant.
True. Very true. Generally, iOS devices (specifically iPhones) get four major software updates since the 3GS came along.
I am typing this from a ThinkPad from the 2006 era running 7. But also, you don't see most PC manufacturers coming out with innovative new things like Apple does. And to be fair, the reason the latest OSes (Lion, ML, and Mavericks) have dropped support for older hardware was to streamline the OS to a slim and lean 64 bit kernal and to promote 64 bit programs. Windows needs to support 32 bit, but in the future 64 bit is the key to the expandability we crave to get the job done! Keep in mind, the G5 was the first personal computer that was 64 bit.
I understand and agree the jump from ppc to Intel was a "neccisary evil" but since then it seems like some hardware is left behind just to promote upgrades. PC at least gives the option to upgrade(like my 2004 single core HP running 8.1) are things slower sometimes, yes but at least I can run it. Just as 1 example why does my iPhone 4s run siri but not my 4? I'm sure there is some answer out there but like I said that's one example. I love all my Mac stuff hence why I'm trying to purpose it.
The 4S runs Siri but not the 4 because of the ambient noise reducing mic. That is also why PCs are so held back in some aspects is because they need backwards compatibility.
Yeah but remember when it was a standalone app? Obviously it wasn't as integrated with the OS but in my opinion it worked just fine and that ran on the 4 till they shut it down when the 4s came out.
Do you remember how poorly it performed when it was a standalone app? Even in a quite environment, it missed quite a bit of words.
And it doesn't miss words now or miss understand you? My point is it was a functional app that they discontinued to push an upgrade with a "exclusive" app. Let me run my watered down (for lack of better phrase) apps on my desktops and handhelds. Dont tell me that there is no possible way to run ios7 on my ipad 1 just take out the features it cant use. I have a 2008 MacPro and Im almost positive it wont run the next OSX, why? The specs are above and beyond but it wont have the right firmware. Its ridiculous and thats what Im talking about when I say PC is better at this because I can upgrade my older gear.
Siri does need it. Do newer phones still misunderstand, sure! But the fact I am able to get it to understand me with a lot of background noise says it requires the updated mic.
I really didn't have that much of an issue with it on my iPhone 4 as an app so maybe I was just lucky, I just really didn't see a reason to discontinue it. That to me is like saying I can't use Skype because I don't have a 1080p webcam. Would it look better with a better camera, sure but its still functional without it
It still misses words, but at a much less frequency in noisy places. Before it rarely caught anything, now with Apple's Siri it catches most words. In a mostly quite din it catches every word I speak to it. There's no possible way to run iOS 7 on an iPad 1 because Apple never released a pubic build of it and is not signing SHSH blobs for it.
See that's what I mean, why not release that instead of making things obsolete before they need to be? I love my apple products and they function for a very long time why not support them? It saddens me because apple used to be much better with that.
Trust me. You do not want iOS7 on an iPad 1. iOS 5 on it is bad enough with its 256mb of RAM. Sometimes there are technical limitations. That'd be like trying to run mavericks or mountain lion on an iBook G4 with 256mb of ram. It would be horrid.
Do you know how horrid iOS 7 would run on the iPad 1? Sure it would run, but it would be like running Windows 7 on a Pentium 3 with 256MB of RAM and a 10GB hard drive on a ATA/33 bus. Completely awful. And before you say it, no the iPad 1 is not that similar to the iPhone 4. The iPad 1's GPU has to work much harder to drive more pixels, something that iOS 7 heavily taxes already on the iPhone 4. It's ram is half that of the iPhone 4's with the iPad 1 already being the most ram deficient of all A4 devices, due to its large screen. The only better thing is its CPU, but that isn't enough to make up for its overall extremely poor performance. Even when compared to the iPod Touch 4 and iPhone 4 all running iOS 5.1.1, the iPad 1 was the overall worst performer with the 3Gs beating it out in everything but raw CPU related tests.