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I am wanting to upgrade my powermac g4 quicksilver 2002 933mhz single processor to a dual processor. i wonder if a processor from a mirror drive door would work with the quicksilver 2002 model or not. i would like to make a very nice mac out of this one...
Started by rmx77 on
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Also the g4 can handle....
175 is alot of money for me to pay for something like a g5 and so thats why i got the g4 like i did.
Powermac G4!
- Nick Unless you have programs that work with a dual processor..theres no reason to install for.
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I have a Powerbook G4 that someone gave me with a blank hard drive. I'd like to install OS X on it, but the only version listed on apple.com is Snow Leopard, which only supports Intel processors.
What version of OS X can I use with this G4, and any ideas...
Started by romandas on
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In some areas it is much faster than 10.4, plus you get .
I run it on my 1.5GHz G4 PowerBook Mac OS X 10.5 on my iBook G4 and it runs fine.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Want to install Tiger 10.4 instead.
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I have stumbled upon an iMac G4 ( looks lie this ). Upon booting it has a series of user account to which I have no idea what the password might be. Obviously a reinstall is in order. The question is, what OSes will work and, more to the point, which ...
Started by Craig on
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Now I had it in on a 933mhz g4 tower and I found it too be on the edge be any Intel, PowerPC G5 or G....
10.5.8 is the most current version.
A 866mhz G4 or better and a DVD drive, but it could potentialy work on slightly slower machines.
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I have an Aluminum FW800 G4 Powerbook (specific specs are 1.25Ghz G4, 512Mb RAM, SuperDrive) that I recently replaced the original hard drive. I've gotten alot of use out of it, but at this point the battery holds a whopping 7 minutes of life with everything...
Started by Bob King on
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However, I doubt I could....
I was just given a 1ghz 12" G4 powerbook by a friend who got of money invested.
My experience with the G4 and software development with Java (which you will probably encounter get out of it towards a new MacBookPro.
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I want to buy my dad an iPod nano for christmas. All he has for a computer is an old G4 that is still running Mac OS X 10.3.x (10.3.9 probably)
What iPod can I buy him and he still be able to use? The newest nano requires iTunes 9 which he cannot run....
Started by bobber205 on
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A G4 should be able to run 10.4 (or even.
To the chart only the 1st and 2nd Gen nano's will work in 10.3.x .
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A friend's taken the keyboard off his 17" Mac G4 Powerbook, screwed it back on and now nothing happens when presses the power button. I don't have 'eyes-on' but he says he didn't do anything else apart from unscrew it, look around then screw it back on...
Started by Ho Li Cow on
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I had this same problem but I observed that my PowerBook G4.
Cheers, let us know what happens.
G4 Powerbook dismantlings myself, your friend might have not properly re-connected either
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I have an iBook G4 whose wired and airport card aren't leasing a dhcp'd IP address. ifconfig shows that neither interface has an ip address. The DHCP server is known to be good and working properly. Physical network cable works fine with another laptop...
Started by Dennis Wurster on
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Hardware Check the Airport card by creating an ad-hoc network on the Mac and then... .
Do you get link lights on the NIC?
@Dennis:
Since you were knowledgeable enough to run ifconfig, I've made assumptions about your ability to perform the following actions .
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I have a 5yr old G4 PowerBook that I use while travelling, and I had intended to get some work done whilst I am away for the next few weeks.
Eclipse just seems to be horrendously slow on it. I've tried tweaking the memory allocated to the VM, but it doesn...
Started by Matt on
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Want to try a crazy idea? Install linux on your PB G4 and try running.
What is the configuration of your G4? One thing you can do to make things Dell D620 with lots of projects.
Of the best IDEs for Java.
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I have an old iBook G4 (A1054, 1.2 GHz) which has issues when it loses power or is shut off. If the battery drains—which happens quickly, as its remaining capacity is very low—it enters some sort of weird mode where it's not really awake (the screen is...
Started by Jonathan Patt on
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Either way, you'll be paying for service if you're out of warranty (which based on it being a G4.
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Recently my 9 year old Apple G4 file server has been randomly crashing. Often it's a kernel panic, but sometimes the system just locks up. It seems almost always to happen when I'm out of my office... but even when I'm in my office, the system is in a...
Started by Josh on
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I'm assuming that if this is running as a file server that it's running Mac OS X Server, correct? If it's not automatically rebooting after a kernel panic then your hardware is old enough that it's probably not supported for that as it's the default on... .
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