How good was Apple's Emac?
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Hello and Welcome to another Budget Builds Video where today we'll be taking a look at the eMac G4 from 2002. A Mac you can pick up online for anyone for around £10, which is about $15/20USD. (Proof of pricing: imgur.com/a/ea... ... Cause lets be honest someone will complain)
Its one of the most interesting macs to buy into on a budget, supporting a wide range of software, featuring a high quality, high refresh rate CRT Display, a PowerPC Based CPU (From when Mac actually meant something), and generally is just an all around awesome computer....But that all sounds well and good till you realise that these things are 15 Years old. So join me, as we find out if these things are still worth it.
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Fan over-Rev was common on the Emacs
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Not that this machine can push such frame rates, but the CRT also does 112Hz at 800x600 which is a nice bonus.
142Hz at 640x480 aswell.
2 more Hertz and you are having a gaming monitor xD
420 hz at 1x1
That's why I love my iMac G3, gets up to 117 hz according to control panel. And on Mac OS 9 it flies and you can really take advantage of that refresh rate
@@MSNWindows7 I have got my 2000 iMac G3 snow white dualbooted with os9 and OSX 10.3 (10.4 is slow) and it works amazingly on os9, the speakers are really nice aswell but I don't wanna wear them out so I use external logitech ones intstead
God my elementary school had an entire computer lab full of these. Ahhh such good memories.
D Adam same at my school and they had this robot alien game on it too
D Adam you guys used Macs ?
Haha...must be an expensive computer lab...my school still uses the HP i5 2500K 8GB RAM computers..
Had been there since i was in grade 2...now i am in college
ali99 _ Man, you guys have i5s? My last secondary school still uses i3s and before to this day. Yes really.
D Adam Oh man back when I was in primary school we had these massive bulky CRT monitors and these really outdated PCs with beige cases and ancient hardware. But it worked brilliantly for the basic MS Word and MS Paint stuff we were doing back in those days.
D Adam schooI (there is a trick. Find it.)
Got my eMac for free behind bestbuy at the dumpster, cleaned it up and it works great. Definitely one of my favorite Macs
Being somebody who uses a PowerBook G4 1GHz a few times a month, I'd say that there are better ways to use the full potential of this machine.
First of all, slap in a larger HDD, something about 100-160GB is the sweet spot for later G4 machines IMO. You should also max the RAM to 1GB
As for operating systems, I'd suggest you install Mac OS X 10.5.8 and Mac OS 9.2.2 dual-booted. Mac OS 9 runs extremely well on later G4 machines and it's great for playing older games since Classic Environment found on Mac OS X 10.4 or earlier just doesn't cut it. Furthermore, the Radeon 7500 may perform better under OS 9 as it's more of a late OS 9 card than an OS X card!
By installing Mac OS X 10.5.8, you'll be able to use a key piece of software called 'Leopard Webkit'. This is a browser engine based on the latest version of Safari (yes, latest as of 2018) that runs with the native Safari UI and performs much much better than TenFourFox. It's so good that it even allows me to watch 360p video on my PowerBook without any lag whatsoever.
Another piece of software that makes these machines shine is CorePlayer (can be found on MacintoshGarden) which is a media player that uses AltiVec instructions to their maximum potential. For example, through it I can play 720p with little to no framedrops on my 1GHz PowerBook G4 which I simply find mind-blowing :)
To make OS X Leopard more bearable (does a huge difference on my Mac), use tips from this link: ppcarchive.dyniform.net/tuning-a-g4-for-leopard.html
On a concluding note, great video and I wish to see more PowerPC stuff on this channel. If you have any questions, ask on the MacRumors PowerPC forums as the folks there are extremely friendly.
P.S: To make your life easier while installing Leopard, I could send you a DMG I use which has Intel code stripped down and lots of junk removed. It can be restored to your HDD in around 3 hours with a USB pendrive and an OS X Tiger install disk.
Aurora A. Unlike your PowerBook, the hard drive is stuck under the CRT and is not easily user replaceable, I have one and it's a real pain 😕
What you say is OK with later eMacs than the one shown here, and great advice. I'm afraid you're quite helpless with the kind of early eMac shown in this video, though
Tiger runs MUCH better on G4s and even G5s. I have a 1.25ghz USB 2 eMac and also a iMac G5 both maxed RAM, and there is a noticeable performance decrease in Leopard. also I dont think eMacs support OS 9
donot ryon Oh that’s odd, my Power Mac G4 867MHz ran better under Leopard than under Tiger.
Most of the folks on the MacRumors PowerPC forum are pretty reasonable, but there are several there that decide to become haughty, passive-aggressive, and gang up on you once you mention the word "Linux". Threads can be derailed very easily, thus, tread with caution.
This was sent from an iBook G4 running Arctic Fox under Debian Sid, browsing the web much faster than TenFourFox ever could. They can't handle the truth.
I am not an Apple fan, but I will say the older models are pretty cool!
I loved mine. Had it from from 2002-2008. Great machine
Next Vid: "Can you game on a Vauxhall Astra"
After that one: ''Can you game on a Corrado?''
ByOniix yes
I own one, my daily workhorse SXI 2003 3 Door 1.6. Still love it... never had any issues with it.
first, upgrade the stereo to a gaming compatable double din unit
@@prv-000 it's the same but the name is used in uk
The emac is the most beautiful mac creation to date, even Tim Cook is astonished by its processing abilities. Its monitor is honestly perfect for some budget gaming. Great vid, keep making this AMAZING content. I really appreciate it, thank you.
It looks good, but it’s no iMac G4
"And it's better than the kind of PC you could pick up for ten pounds"
I've literally pulled Core 2 machines out of the trash.
Those Minecraft figures bring me back to when I'd wake up every morning at 6am and play in the dark on my dad's laptop with around 8-20fps. Anyways, these old Macs are nice, especially the G4 ones. Just gotta get to filming mine. Keep it up man, this video turned out fantastically
HoppsTech thats a bit nostalgic for me also... I remember playing the game on my old e2140 with 1gb ram and a VIA CHROME9 graphics card on windows xp. I played the game until it stopped supporting pixel shader 2.0.
Hell yeah.
I built some pos PC with a Radeon 9200 back in 2011 out of scrapped machines, I played Minecraft on this thing at any sacrifice.
It was a real shitty time but that PC is one of the few good memories.
HoppsTech I used to play Minecraft on my family’s ancient HP Pavilion 7000. I used to get around 2-8fps, 5 most of the time, and 10-12 was the highest I ever got. I’ve still got the old XP-running relic in my room and it still works just about it. Unfortunately it’s hard drive drivers are fucked and I need to find it’s original recovery discs to fix it.
Just Another UA-cam Channel oof I had a Windows XP but sold it😂
@@justanotheryoutubechannel You can burn the iso to a disk, or use linux like i do.
I got one a few years ago for £15, mine appears to be a bit newer with a 1.42 Ghz CPU, DDR RAM (upgraded to 2GB) and a radeon 9600, runs Mac OS X really well, internet is ok, Quake 3 runs really well!
I have a Intel core i5-7200u, 8Gb of ram, 1Tb of storage, and Intel HD graphics 620 GPU which runs Minecraft at 25-40Fps😎
@@mas7rreaper126, I envy you. All I got is a i3-4005u and 4 GB of ram. Only Linux (antiX) made me use it with some pleasure. The system uses less resources than Windows XP (115 MiB of RAM). I think it's impressive for a x64 system.
I have this model as well, and made my own comment. Also maxed the RAM at 2. I wanted to try Minecraft on this maxed out model but kept getting errors trying to launch it. I think the capacitors died in mine, so I have repairs to do. Yours might be due soon too.
@@mas7rreaper126 sounds like your GPU is a huge ass bottleneck
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I got a powermac g5 for free from freecycle which I use for recording and editing my music which is pretty awesome :) all it needed really was cleaning up
Good stuff
Gotta love the fact that if you have a check sign next to your name, you can get away with saying something like "cool" and still amass a truckload of likes :-P
The heart from the creator helps emphasize it too - but 9 likes isn't really a "truckload" at all o_O
I've never used an eMac before, but it seems like a really cool computer, especially with that nice CRT display.
As soon as you started testing the inbuilt speakers I was just waiting for an Oasis track haha
Oasis is my favorite band!!
My elementary school had dozens of these. By the time I entered high school they still had them but most of them were put into storage and replaced. Looking at these specs I would love to have one of these, not too bad!
Thanks to a local repair shop, I now own one myself. It isn’t one that can boot OS 9 natively though but it is the faster 1.25 GHz USB 2.0 Combo drive model released in mid-2004. It is one of the first working PowerPC Macs I’ve owned as the PowerMac G5 2.0 DP from the same time period needed repaired at the time.
Love the Unplugged Nirvana casette!
I noticed that too!
Thanks for making this. This was one of the first computers I ever used and was the only Mac I have ever used until in a few weeks when my M1 Pro MacBook comes in the mail. So crazy to see how far the operating system and hardware have come! It'll definitely be a HUGE leap from my Mac experience 17 years ago!
just watched this video on a 03/04 emac, not the smoothest ever but still amazing for 15 years later.
I have the highest spec eMac in my colletion! The CRT on it is still one of the best screens I have seen in person. Mine has the 1.42GHZ G4, 2GB DDR, ATI 9600 and a 160gb HDD, AirPort Extreme 802.11b/g running Leopard.
I have a vague memory of my grandmother having one
Dude, it's amazing seeing you hit 100,000 subscribers. I think it was at like 64 when I found this channel and knew it'd be a gem. Genuinely happy for you, man!
The G4 was a beast, Nanosaur (Dinosaur game) and Marble Blast Gold ran great on these computers
We also had Cromag Rally and BugDom
I do not turn on notifications for any channel except for this one, your videos are so entertaining and I love your budget builds keep posting!!
Cheers man, will do, appreciate that you do that
Never did have the eMac but a few G3 iMacs which we still have a couple kicking about, as well as 2 G5 towers. Loved the old PPC's. My favourite Mac was the dual 1.25 MDD which I still regard as the most beautiful computer ever built. I put that baby through hell and back. Hmmm.. I might just have to buy one and put an ATX inside.
Love the channel :-)
I'd love to see a follow up, this is very interesting. I wonder if the older versions of Final Cut will work better with that eMac, Photoshop CS2 might actually be usable considering it was a widely used Mac application during the PowerPC G4 era and from what I can tell emulation on it might not actually be insane (No 3D consoles obviously).
The eMac made for a darn nice office machine with its 17" flat CRT screen. It was like an "upgraded" gumdrop iMac. For its time it was great. Apparently it's also possible to get Mac OS 9.2.2 running on it natively. More info on the MacOS9Lives forums.
My middle school still used those in the library as library catalog machines along with a few iMac G3's and a G4. The G3's were between 400 MHz and 600 MHz with 512 MB of RAM and the G4 machines were 1GHz with 256 MB of ram. Not sure if they're there now but they were in 2014. I no longer go to that school so I'm unsure.
Yes! I hoped from the thumbnail this would be an eMac. I used to have a couple and regret getting rid of them. Also, sweet cassettes dude :-D
Your desk fan looks like it's going nuts..
If only they rotated at that speed in real life 🤔 time to overclock?
Anybody else appreciate the majora's mask references?
Dad came home with two of these, a 700 and an 800. the 700 was prone to flyback errors. we had it swapped for an 800, and the other 800 was swapped for a 1.25 later on. the "computer room" had the 800 on one desk and the 1.25 on the other. then the iMac G5 came into the picture and the 1.25 went to a third desk. I sold off the 800 at a yard sale about ten years ago but kept the 1.25. Common problems these have include the build-up of dust inside the back shell, the speaker surrounds deteriorating, and the plastic protectors for said speakers breaking from age. the CRTs are some of the best shipped in or with any Apple product, and it was the last product to have such a thing. The fact that I got to experience one daily in my home when they were new is something I am happy about.
These were also among the last PPC Macs to support running MacOS 9. Dad was interested in solely this for reasons of having a fast all in one machine that wasn't an iMac to get multiple of for use in the family printing company's prepress department. That seemed to go down the drain, since dual-1.25 MDD2003s started appearing on desks instead.
While 10 2009 iMacs were running Snow Leopard and Photoshop in my last post, a single eMac running Tiger was the only Mac capable of scanning from an A3 scanner with a SCSI to USB adaptor. Tiger was the last OS for which drivers were available. Compared to the iMacs, it was very slow but it still performed a vital function. That’s all it did. Files were copied using thumb drives. I salvaged it and I’ve picked up a few others for free. Still have them. Would love to do a mod with a 17” screen and a MacMini on one, or on a G3 iMac shell.
The black and white Macintosh models, the original Imac and the first all aluminium Imac's are my personal favourites
My eMac turned into my main SNES and Gameboy emulation station for years. I got rid of it in 2014 and regretted it. That CRT was perfection. I never had luck with USB drives with the eMac. The constant disconnects drove me insane. Firewire drives worked perfectly and installed dvd apps a hell of a lot faster.
When it's better then anything apple makes today lmao
The Mac pro 5,1 is cheap and still apples most powerful computer
@Poke '07 MacBooks can't run Panther.
@iOS A fully upgraded / specced out Mac Pro 5,1 *will* give the iMac Pro a run for its money.
@iOS 5 nah, the iMac pro will never have 2 processors, 8 memory slots, and pci expandability like the 5,1, which is still apples most powerful thanks to hardware upgradability.
@@mikemartin9792 the new Mac Pro is pretty good but doesn't have dual CPUs unfortunately. Probably doesn't matter that much though because it can be upgraded to a 28 core cpu.
I replaced my 1999-2000 era iMac with an eMac around 2004-5 - except it was from the last production modules, a 1.25ghz with what I believe was a quicker drive. I used it up until mid-2009 when I upgraded due to PPC Macs getting completely left behind. The machine then became my kid's first computer and dedicated DVD player (next generation was DVD) - and it served in that capacity until probably 2016 or so. It still runs flawlessly, and I keep thinking about sprucing it up, but I've collected several other PPC era Macs that are ridiculously more powerful (and way too expensive for me to have ever bought when they were new).
One of my favorite things to push these old systems to do is emulation - they do great with it. I'm actually working towards an online "play by chat" Dungeons and Dragons game using one of my PPC G4 towers with a flashed GPU.
I'd love to see you do more with these sort of budget systems - but, sadly, since the pandemic they have skyrocketed in price due to hobbyists. I was lucky to sneak in years before they went up.
Love all of your stuff, I was poking around in your older videos tonight - including ones I hadn't seen yet (which are few, LOL). Thanks, hope to see more soon.
I love and recognize the use of Sim Copter hanger music in this video. I feel like that game doesn't get enough attention despite how fun and innovative it was at the time it was released! I wish someone would make a similar game with modern graphics in 2018.
I remember using that in early elementary school. So nostalgic. I feel old now. I also remember prying open the CD tray door and letting go to see and hear it snap shut again because I guess that was a fun thing to do as a kid to annoy a teacher. Lol
I absolutely love PowerPC macs and the eMac was one of my favourites. Unfortunately, it's far too big and heavy for me in my flat. I use a Mac Mini G4 as a file server, with Mac OS Server 10.4.11 :) I love making use of older hardware. I feel like Apple lost its mojo once PPC was phased out, never felt the same again and have been a PC guy since. Linux ftw!
So all macs aren't bad then. Sort of a nostalgia trip for me there with a CRT screen, I took ages to change to an LCD. And damn you spent a poop load of time on that video.
I'm watching this video and reading this comment using a CRT right now lol. There are just some applications where they're preferable for me, like retro games. And since they're big and sturdy they last forever as long as you don't drop them!
The old Macs Are credible unlike the new ones (i have an i5 and 8gb ram Macbook Pro (it cost me $2500) for school and my $200 dollar i5 8gb ram computer outdoes it in every way)
I got an early 2009 iMac for free from my dad's friend's mother when she was upgrading. She also gave me her new Magic Mouse and wireless keyboard because she preferred her old ones. It's a very capable machine, and I was able to get it running High Sierra with a little fiddling.
Dang that fan is going ham!
I bought a G3 iMac in the early 2000s in order to hop on the Apple bandwagon (it was a companion to my main PC). It was definitely a lot of fun learning the ways it was different from Windows.
I remember the receptionist of a small local art gallery was still using a eMac back in like, 2014-ish. But I guess they probably didn’t need high performance for that kind of job.
I love how I just was humming the tune to passport.mid and then I hear it in the background!
I have an old eMac ( i think its the first model), what i found interesting is that at lower resolutions, the refresh rate gets very high, at 640x480 for example it can run at 120hz (or somehere close to it), so i tried ports of older games such as Quake 1, but my model is just not powerful enough to get the game above 50/60 FPS to really take advantage of the high refresh rate, you should try that if you are going to make another eMac video.
I still have one of these in my garage collecting dust. Mine has the Power PC G4 at 1.25 GHz though. I used it as a back up computer/music playing computer for years though. And the one I have I remember playing Warcraft 3 and even Vanilla WoW worked nicely at the time.
7:07 Again, always nice to encounter a fellow Oasis fan through unrelated browsing. Standing On The Shoulder of Giants is a criminally underrated album.
I found the 1GHz model on Craigslist for 10 bucks about three years ago. The iMac is one of the last Mac models that could boot into OS 9, making it pretty much the fastest classic Mac gaming platform ever built. Nice that it's so cheap, at least for now.
My university had a Mac Lab full of these (they upgraded it to iMac G5s the year I graduated). I always thought they were very cool and clean looking little computers.
i watch 5 ads and click on them just to help you pay for that eMac :D
Fantastic video. Convince me to get a mac just mess with it.
This is the first Mac I ever used. They had them in my college. When I got the hang of MacOS, I was angry. I thought the annoying quirks of Windows were just something computers did and you had no other choice. MacOS showed me otherwise and I realised how much time I’d wasted messing around with Windows trying to get things to work. I’ve been a Mac user ever since. Sure, there not perfect and Windows is better for certain use cases, but I just find Macs much easier and more hassle free to use in general.
My top-spec computer from 2003/4. I paid a ton for it back then. I upgraded everything. I used it until 2007. I even played vanilla warcraft/TBC on this lol. The speakers were great. I must have had the later model. It had a gig of ram,80 gig hard drive, 1 gig GPU.
I used one of these from about 2003-2007. It was great.
I just picked up one of these a couple of days ago, as well as a Power Mac G5
The G5 is an awesome system
The one I picked up is a dual 2.0GHz model, and (including the price of the eMac) only cost me around £30. I'm using it as a game server now
I own a 1.25 GHz USB 2.0 eMac myself along with a 2.0 GHz DP PowerMac G5 from mid-2004
I have a iMac g5 and the screen is almost always black but occasionally flickers on. Do I have a bad screen or a bad gpu?
Great video as always! I would love to get an eMac, but I wonder how difficult they are to get into and upgrade? Those speakers sound terrific for a 16-year old computer!
We had a music room full of these when I was in school - I loved them, was wonderful for logic.
I had one of the later generation ones. Great little computer. My niece has since inherited it.
3:03 i audibly gasped and said that's so cool at that cd bay drive, such a brilliant location
I loved this series mac In school, nanosaur and internet games :) also I would try marble blast ultra, that was the smoothest running game from my memory
Great video! I love this era of macs, I have both a PowerBook and a powermac with g4 processors. These were the machines I grew up with
Thanks for making a video on my favorite incarnation of the Mac! I still have my 1.25ghz model with 1gb of ram and it still works really well! With Spotify working and a modern web browser selection between Webkit, TenFourFox, and Roccat, and a DVD drive, I still find it really quite useable even today!
I remember using these in school, it made me buy my first Mac, a second hand G4 iMac!
Good video, I would suggest disabling the dashboard and completely closing every single app except for the one your using to get the best performance out of it.
You are one of my favorite channels i always look forward to all your uploads
Cheers man.
For daily tasks such as light webbrowsing and writing documents, light editing so isn't this old Mac that bad
light webbrowsing that slows down all the time, likely by all the adverts... i imagine, javascript and replying to me here are out of the question (this must be "heavy" browsing)
light writing documents, in some old software that isn't compatible (maybe used html or something)
i love that, the excuse is the main purpose of this unit is "light" stuff, when making excuses about it's limitations.... being honest the main use of it is so he can hunt out all the old power pc software as a hobby
DarkShroom Of course It's not something that should be used as a daily driver anymore it is simply too old and can't handle most programs.
I was simply pointing out what it can handle with the ageing hardware, it's however best used for old legacy software for the hobbies sake which you brought up.
I'm typing this reply on a single 450 Sawtooth, I'm sure an eMac can do just fine as a daily use PC if you aren't demanding new games out of it.
I remember seeing several of these back in elementary school. I'd get one but I'd have to make some room for it.
I had this throughout highschool... Now it’s stored inside its box..probably never to be used again. I miss it now
I have an eMac as well, I love this thing. Mine is the final version with 1,42GHz CPU, Radeon 9600, 2GB DDR-RAM and a 500GB IDE Hard Drive. Only the built in Ethernet died during a thunderstorm, so I am using an Apple USB Ethernet adapter.
It can actually handle 720p60 H.264 using CorePlayer, it can browse the web using leopard-webkit and it can play 360p UA-cam without a problem. (I have a video showing this on my channel)
nice! I have a g4 powerbook 1.5ghz I was given by my dad. I upgraded the ram from 512mb to 1.5gb and upgraded it from tiger from panther. i still use it because it has adobe photoshop and adobe illustrator. I even have games such as return to castle wolfenstein that's really fun.
I'll always have a soft spot for this computer even though I dislike apple as a company nowadays. it was the first piece of technology that amazed me as a kid and even today it still looks incredible for a 20 year old machine. if it wasn't such a fat lump I'd love to display it as a piece of personal history and nostalgia
My School District here in Liverpool New York United States has these computers along with Apple laptops. Every school from elementary school up to the high school has these in the classroom. If you did not get a laptop cart you got several of these place in your classroom with a printer. I was in a class called read 180 which helped special needs kids learn how to read back in 9th grade. It was a experimental class which is now an actual class you can take in high school. I use this computer and weekly basis to use the read 180 Program software. He's a great computers because they have built-in microphones so if you're using read 180 done you don't have to configure or microphone just get a standard pair of headphones and you're all set and ready to go I too love this computer it was the best one to use and school for the microphone and because it has wireless internet and doesn't have to be connected to ethernet well my schools did anyway.
I'll admit that I used a G4 iBook I got for cheap from like 2011-2014 because the G4 PPC machines seemed to have aged gracefully when it came to web browsing
When it comes to cheapo laptops, a Chromebook with crouton to have a proper Linux desktop works pretty well.
Reminds me of using my early 2006 mbp. It's the only computer I have with a screen that goes dark enough to use at night. My other computers are all desktops or have fluorescent backlights with about the same degree of brightness adjustment as an oil lamp.
7:07 SOTSOG Is the only record I could really think of playing on this thing, SOTSOG is the most early 2000s record I have ever heard.
"The Internet is getting slightly more bloated" - Dude that's the understatement of the year! :)
BUT... when it comes to computing on a budget you've forgotten about the power usage... That's something to consider if you're running a machine for many hours a day - hard to be exact, but I've found that moving from a CRT and a rather gutsy Xeon system to a lowly I3 and an LED monitor is saving me a bundle. It's all about balance but these older systems aren't always as "cheap" as they seem! Consider a PPC Mac Mini - and put that against (say) a RPi3 - which is considerably quicker yet uses a fraction of the electricity.
Might even be worth adding this into your comparisons at some point - all you need is one of those little wall-plug monitors and you're golden! I found that my little LED fogger was using a staggering 15W (doesn't sound much but it doesn't DO much either).
I have Apple IMac G4 1.25 17-Inch flat screen its my fav it still works great
I have the 2005/2006 model (1.25 ghz), upgraded to 1 GB of RAM and with a 160 GB hard drive, it works very well...
As any fyi a LOT of these have bad crt's or had... They died frequently when I was working on macs. The fix when I was working on them was to replace the crt entirely, though you could replace the caps as I believe that was why they died.
What a legend. Gas Panic is such a great song.
Someone else who appreciates it as much as me!!!
I used a mac mini g4 and other than the ram it was perfect for DVD's for example. You can use PPCAppStore which is available after downloading the Sierra theme IIRC, has a nice repo of apps.
I have a couple of the 1.42GHz variants of these machines. The 1.42 versions run DDR memory and can run 1GB or 2GB unofficially. Those are AMAZING machines
Nanosaur 2 is the perfect game for this, it came preinstalled on most of them.
oh, simcopter music. what a coincidence, i've been playing that a LOT lately.
2:14 Lmao the electric desk fan
I gamed on a CRT 15 inch monitor for YEARS on a Gtx580 (Back in 2013-16)
I OC'ed my 1.42GHz emac to 1.67GHz and 10 years later it's still stable. Runs 2GB RAM and utilizes ATIcellerator to increase VRAM by 50%, GPU 20%. Doom III, Prey, and Postal 2 are all playable 25-30fps 800x600. I used tenfourfox and webkit plus TubeTV for youtube. Can edit HD video with FCP and play HD content nicely via quicktime.
I have one next to me rn,
when I got my new iMac (2012) I just put it to the left of the eMac on the same desk.
3:14 your fan is dancing, nice vid btw!
I got one from my school brand new in the box. Runs at 1.25ghz. First course of order with these is to take them apart and replace the caps on the motherboard/powersupply depending on the model and only then did i power it up
My gaming rig, the 2004 version. Great combo with a real MT32n DOSBox, ScummVM, originals, source ports etc...
My favorite to this day is my iMac G3 from 2000. I made a video about it a couple of years ago when I tried internet. It struggled. A LOT...
I’ve seen people take these and the iMac G3 and cram a MacMini in it and give it a new life, sadly they always remove the crt, I would love to see one of these with the crt display intact!!
I’ve got a 2005 model, in which is fully upgraded. Gotta love these things.
*[EDIT]* At its best, it can run Minecraft at around 30-45 fps
I put Debian on mine - at least you can get a half-decent browser (modern-ish) for that. There's a number of other options too which can get past the problems with using such an outdated OS.
This was the first computer I got, My mum got it for my 6th birthday in 2008 and I thought it was the best thing I had ever seen, it still worked long after I stopped using it though. Ended up throwing it out as it was taking up too much space. I remember it stuggling to run BBC Iplayer and sites alike, I got an upgrade to the G5 a few years later but it started crashing heavily after a week and ended up getting an old dell and I instantly fell in love with windows
edit: I remember OpenTTD running well but im not too sure as I was so young. I would also try using an older version of VLC as I used that for playing DVDs and movies off of my dads file server
Saturday i picked up a PC from a man who was going to trash it. It has a core i7 4970, 12 Gb of dd3 1600Mhz ram and windows 10 pro licence. I took my 4Gb HBM r9 fury x and i got an amazingly good PC for the cost of the graphics card. The PC even had a decent power supply ,a 750w enermax Naxn
DIYelectronics amazing, and he was going to get rid of it?!
I guess some stuff has more value with other people than others.
I wish that things like that would happen were I live . Here the only thing I will find in that way here is a pc with a pentium 2 at best .
ComputerCatGaming "a man's trash is another's man treasure
Dimitris Patsiaouras this is actually the first time in my whole life. Never found anything better than a core 2 duo
DIYelectronics that would be extremely good hardware for my school we are still working on some old crappy PC's with celeron d's