Power Mac G4. When Apple Was Thinking Different
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- Опубліковано 22 вер 2024
- Join me as we take a look at this gorgeous piece of Apple history, from back when Apple was doing everything it could to establish itself, through… Interesting tactics.
This is a Power Mac G4 3,6 (also known as the MDD - Mirrored Drive Doors). It sports dual 867 MHz G4 processors, 2GB of RAM and a 64 MB graphics card. Let’s take it for a spin.
Epic. I remember when the G5 came out. It was mind blowing at the time.
Hey, thanks for commenting! Oh yeah, we’ll have to take a look at that for sure! 😁 Cheers!
Oh, i must be older than you. I remember when the G3 b/w came out. THAT was mindblowing.
@@jensputzlocher8345 Haha, I bet we’ll have someone in the comment section who’ll remember the original 128k Macintosh 😂
@@schvabek _shrugs_ I learned to use a computer with my dad's old _Apple IIc_ when I was 6, complete with floppies that were _actually_ floppy, and even the _Image Writer II_ "micro-perf tearing" experience for assignments I printed out. Fun times...
I even had a _MDD 1.42 Dual-Processor G4_ in my teens when I learned _Final Cut Pro_ and began helping my dad create 30-second commercial spots as well as feature-length programs. It was nearly $4.5k new back then, but it paid for itself several times over.
The big deal with the _PowerPC G5_ was the first implementation of consumer 64 bit computing IIRC, but I was more interested in the _"Project Rosetta"_ rumors going around at the time, and that ended up becoming _Universal Binary_ for the new Intel chip Macs.
Fun Fact: Certain spacecraft have been powered by specialized radiation-shielded _PowerPC G3-powered_ boards (made in partnership with BAE Systems). This includes the NASA/JPL _Perseverance_ Mars rover, as well as the NASA/Lockheed-Martin _Orion_ craft.
why you say that ?
apple without Jobs you need ?
awesome video my first Computer was a Launch Power Mac G4 then i upgraded to a G5 also at launch they are some of my fav macs
@@Salty_Cracker213 Hey, man, thanks a lot! 🤟 Must’ve been awesome having these beasts back then!
your stairway to heaven solo was incredible!!
@@lunabell-2 Hey, thank you so much! ❤️
You know what man I'm impressed because I don't think I seen you have to use a double dongle one time! You definitely got a lifelong viewer to your channel from here on out row I appreciate your genuine vulnerable approach to tech I really do
Man, you rock, thank you so much for the kind words ❤️ and thank you for subbing, it really does mean a lot! 🤟
Steve Jobs: Guys, let’s think different.
Years later…
Steve Jobs: Fuck that motto. Let’s use Intel chips.
@@Vindix007 Haha, yeah, many hc Apple fans were quite upset about that at the time. But, as far as I’m concerned, the Intel switch was the best thing they did at the time. Not just performance wise, but the compatibility got so much better. As a Mac user, I was all for it back in the day.
And the media: "Apple makes the best Windows laptop". I specifically waited and bought the very first MacBook Pro in 2006 and everyone was jealous as it ran everything way better than the HP dc7600 CMT we had in the lab, which not even bad PCs at the time.
@@gentuxable Yeah, I dual booted xp back in the day and it looked like black magic 😂 especially after ppc architecture which could hardly run any wintel software
@@schvabek You do realize the complications of running Windows/Intel software on a system that is neither Windows nor Intel?
@@jfbeam Sure, now I do. As a kid a didn’t. I was just frustrated I couldn’t run my pc friends game discs lol
My first Mac ever was a MDD that I bough tin 2007. I was 19 then and made music with it. I've been an Apple user ever since.I even had a G4 Cube for a short time which I upgraded with an aftermarket 1,6 GHz G4 processor..
@@haramaschabrasir8662 Hey, that’s super cool! I’d love to have the g4 cube myself, but haven’t been able to find one locally. It’s such a cool design.
I remember when the original Mac came out in 1984. Staff in my lab bought one. I had never seen anything like it. When this G4 came out I was blown away again. Compared to my lowly pentium running an early Debian, that thing looked futuristic. TY
@@samshort365 Man, thanks for sharing! I’m glad this took you back ❤️
I have one of these Mac's still works just fine. Amazing for its day!
What you run on it ?
@@andrefelixstudio2833 That’s awesome! 🤟
Back when it was new, this G4 was a very good video editor and programmed DVD maker! It felt like a breakthrough the way the M1 did in 2021.
@@stephenkeever6029 oh yeah, these machines were very desirable in video and music production (like most macs). Also they started shipping with dvd burning drives, which was another big deal back in the day.
Fascinating 👍
I remember my old elementary school in West Virginia, USA had some Apple III's we used to play old learning games. Granted this was in like 2003, the schools in West Virginia could NOT afford newer machines, so I got a taste for the old stuff at a very young age.
Thanks for doing videos like this!
@@Carnage_Lot Man, you rock, thank you so much for the support! And, wow, Apple III?? Those are super rare nowadays, and to think you had a whole classroom full of those! What a sight!
@@schvabek Really we had like 4. Lol
It was a small school in rural West Virginia. My class had like 10 students. I imagine they were donated to the school at some point!
@@Carnage_Lot Still, quite cool. Wonder what happened to them later, they would be worth thousands today.
I still own a G4, unused on the shelf for about 10 years. Time to restore it. And time to restore the iMac G5... and the G3DT... and the Motorola Starmax PowerMac Clone... Need to have more time...
@@jensputzlocher8345 Hey, man, that’s awesome! What a thing to have, an unused G4! I’ll try covering all the models I have 😊
@@jensputzlocher8345 haha your iMac G5 is still alive? Those things were toasters...
@@chrisa4072 All of these computer have been hibernating on the shelf for years. So i hope the iMac G5 would not toast itself.
The early Intel iMacs had the same problem: not enough ventilation on the motherboard. Mine died suddenly with a little cloud of smoke.
@@jensputzlocher8345 funny, my core2duo mbp 1,3 actually melted the surface of the desk it was sitting on. I was testing XP media center via boot camp and of course Apple during that time said that running Windows is at the user's risk. Boot camp had fan drivers that matched OS X profile rather than Windows'. My Mac didn't last very long (and it was a costly $2500 then when minimum wage was still $4)
Love the Zeppelin at the end :D
@@steve-852 Thanks man! 🤟
It was assembled in Cork in Ireland in the old apple 2e factory, the IBM and Intel factories are in Dublin. All the parts are shipped to Cork and it’s all assembled there.
Hey, thanks a lot for the info! I didn’t know that! 🤟
People always complain. As they say in any job that you deal with customers a customer is going to customer. Thanks for making this video to try and give back to the UA-cam community
@@michaelanderson654 man, thank you sooo much! 😢❤️ I really appreciate your support, you rock! 🤟
Vacum cleaning computers have killed so many computers :/ Sad times. R.I.P. anyhow really fun and nostalgic video
@@arianaponytail Hey, thanks so much for your support! Really appreciated! 🤟
kewl video, i love the strat! g4's are my fav, i still have a g4mdd running open suse its great for everyday surfing and streaing video! thst is one of macs best machines ever! i made a sweet hackintosh using a g3 mac pro case. it looked original but had an i7 and running monterey
Hey, that sounds AWESOME! I would love to see that thing! And I can’t believe you’re still surfing the web using that thing, that’s mind blowing!
Thanks a lot for commenting, cheers! 🤟
I actually owned one of these. I think it may've even been this exact model. It was a huge upgrade from my G3 iMac, and to this day, my favorite Mac. The G5 I bought a couple of years later was faster, but not as elegant. And the locked-down monolithic soldered boxes they serve today are an absolute disgrace by comparison.
Hey, thanks for sharing! Yeah, I also miss the crazy futuristic translucent plastic designs of the late nineties 🤟
Ciao, i had this wonderful Apple Powermac G4, running OS X 10.5.8 on it, loved the Aqua UI, many greetings from brunswick in Germany and please stay safe 🙃
@@sandrodellisanti1139 Hey, man, thank you so much for sharing and the greetings! Bleib sicher to you too and cheers! 🤟
I had a dual 867mhz. New. It was a super computer at the time. I made a lot of videos editing and audio mixes on this machine. Found memories! Thanks!
Thanks for sharing, that’s awesome! 🤟
A small thing. If the binary was universal, you could still run OS 9 apps under Rosetta up to Snow Leopard 10.6
@@orestes1984 Really? That’s pretty interesting, I know Rosetta runs ppc apps, but I didn’t know it went back to OS 9. I was reading how support for OS 9 support ended with Power Mac G4 and Tiger.
@@schvabek it depends. If they were written in cocoa or carbon. There were two APIs that developers could use by OS 9 one was Cocoa the other was Carbon. Provided an app was written in Cocoa and there was a universal binary patch it can run either on OS 9 or OS X up to Snow Leopard.
It's one of the reasons why I kept a 2011 MacBook Pro for so long. It can play some older games, provided they had a universal patch.
Leopard. 10.5.8 is latest version you can install on MDD Macs.
@@revco196 Sure, but I don’t think that runs Classic.
@@revco196 I was not talking about that.
I used to have a top-spec FW800 G4 that had the dual 1.42ghz G4s, 2gb ram and a 9000 pro. Thing was a very cool machine when I had it. I now have late-05 G5 2.0 that is interesting in its own right and that I wanted another Power Mac
Hey, thanks for sharing! That’s awesome, G5 is such a cool machine! 🤟
I would love one of these cases... even if the computer inside is not salvageable
@@MK-of7qw Yeah, I also love the late nineties Apple aesthetics! 🤘 That would be a fun project too - putting a 4090 in it or something lol
I pulled a G3 (the blue and white one) out of e-waste last year. I cleaned it up and put it away until I can dedicate some time to tinkering with it. It looks complete, and I have since collected copies of the OS and software from that era hoping that I can get it running again.
@@Mad4400 That’s an awesome find! 🤘
The G4 MDD is one of my all-time favorites! I’m still running one right now with powerPC supported versions of Linux,in fact I’m watching this video on an MDD right now. I can even install a g5 upgrade card from sonnet!
@@johnnugent7136 Hey, that’s awesome! To think people are watching this on a G4, just insane! 🤟
Loved this type G4 Power Mac. Used to get them cheap from schools who upgraded to G5s. This model was Very Very Loud. You had to put it under a desk as if was on top you would go deth
Hey, thanks for sharing! Haha, yeah, it’s quite loud, and one funny story I’ve read is how people bought these machines for music production, and were upset by the noise, so they had to put them in special noise cancelling chambers 😂
Oh my goodness, this was a ROLLERCOASTER of a video! I never really "studied" anything Mac before 2007 or 2008, so these old machines are totally new in my eyes. That machine is simultaneously hideous and cool looking at the same time lol! The opening "door" feature is cool. I laughed out loud at the "boom" sound it made when powering on! 😂
Thanks for the story time about how you got into old computers, and the old footage of you and your friend! It really gives context as to WHY you spend your free time working on these old machines! You're right- not all of us grew up with all types of computers (or any computer at all for that matter) so you definitely need to enjoy what you have whenever it shows up in your life!
I never got into playing PC or Mac games, but definitely played games on NES, SNES, Gameboy, and N64 consoles - so that footage really gave me a rush of nostalgia!
Sorry to hear your previous uploads got cc flagged! Totally ok for talking over that portion of the video, especially on this video because that song was played at my cousin's funeral... I'm ok, and I didn't cry- thanks to the voice over! 😊
Hey, Thrifty! Glad you enjoyed this one too! I’ll have to remember to give you a shout out next time I make a video, your warm comments have always been such a motivation! 🤘
I recently found some all footage of me and my friends while digging around, so I thought it helped paint the picture.
P. S. I’m sure your friend is rocking it up there somewhere ❤ 🥲
@@schvabek @schvabek Lol- no need for shout outs for the time being, as I'm not currently uploading on this channel right now due to other factors... maybe down the line though! 😅
I noticed you've been posting consistently, and that's great- glad all those auction wins and warm comments from viewers have been a motivation for you!
Yeah, I'm certain my older cousin is rocking his heart out! 😎
@@thethriftyfawnWell I’m trying to see if I can make this YT thing work 🤷♂️ And I’m thrilled with the response! Aaaaand it’s a good way to justify cluttering my storage room with old auctioned off junk 😂
@@schvabek You will DEFINITELY make this work! To put it into context- I am NOT "techy" at all, I don't do electronic related repairs, and I otherwise would not have likely had any interest in watching content related to "the insides of old computers" or anything else related to electronics...
However- the delivery of the subject, the before and after of each piece, the storytelling, the editing... it allows the videos to appeal to a wider audience of people. I love vintage things, thrifted things, restorations, and creativity/innovation with cleaning and repairs when needed to bring something back to being usableand enjoyed again. And of course, nostalgia!
Plus- you are genuine, you are being yourself, and you reply to comments/interact with the audience. It's obvious you enjoy what you do, and you would be doing these activities with or without rolling a camera and posting it online. That right there shows your authenticity and allows the viewers to be at ease and enjoy the videos! 😊
@@thethriftyfawnif I ever “make it big”, I’ll never forget people like you being there for me in the beginning❤
List of My Mac Collection ------ Imac G3, eMac G4, PowerMac G4 Mirror Door, PowerMac G5, Intel PowerMac dual 2ghz, iBook G4, PowerBook 2.5ghz Intel, MacBook Air 2017, MacBook Air 2022, Mac Mini Intel, Mac Mini M1, Mac Pro 2015 Trash Can 6,1, Mac Mini M2Pro and finally Awaiting ----- The Mac Mini Pro M4
Hey, that’s and awesome collection! 🤟
@@schvabek Its taken several years to find and repair/upgrade my little retro museum - but I love them ......
You sound a bit like Halliday from Ready Player One. Quite therapeutic.
@@nomeat1337 Man, thank you so much! I’m still quite self conscious about the narration thing, since English is not my first language. Glad you don’t mind my voice lol! 🤟
My uncle used to have a mid 90s grey box Macintosh, I don't know which one, but it was loaded with software and I remember playing lemmings on there. Unfortunately it was just dumped at the recycling centre along with an 1984 look alike classic Macintosh, maybe a special throwback edition or the original, im not sure also loaded with games and software that I used to play on. It came with a microphone on the side, that we used to record songs into and it played prince of Persia
Hey man, thanks for sharing your story! That’s so awesome! Pity about them ending up recycled, but I’ve also thrown a lot of cool tech in the trash, because I’ve never thought I’d need them again or that they would become collectibles.
Regarding Nanosaur, double jump off that first mountain and you get 999 ammo. American McGee's Alice is another good match for the G4, a lot of things don't work well in OS 9 mode, great video!
Hey, thanks so much for the support and the Nanosaur tip! If you have any other suggestions about the games I could run on a G3-G5 system, I’d love to hear them!
you forgot a lot, there is a 2003 OS 9 specific build for those MDD G4 macs. you should get it and use it because there are a few programs that don't like Classic
@@joshj88 Hey, yeah, I’ve mentioned in the video that I tried a couple OS 9 builds (one I thought was for this one in particular) but it didn’t work. Ultimately I just wanted to instal Tiger and run OS 9 apps in classic. But I am aware that not all apps run how they should, I myself had issues with some of them.
Fastest OS 9 native machine possible
Bro I usually don't give compliments or props to people that do reviews or tutorials or anything of that nature or even in this nature of computing hardware be an older new because usually they get it wrong, that said bro you're doing a great job man and do not conform to what viewers say or present in your comment area do you and do what's comfortable to you and I live in an apartment myself and I have neighbors that don't recognize times to be loud and times not to be loud but also two keep this in mind with a vacuum that only creates a magnetic static based filled when it's around the motor it does not transition outside of that and newer vacuums or shielded to protect its own electronics from that field created by the motor. Also two you run the risk of igniting and establishing an allergy to an unknown substance because you don't know where those PCs will come to from. But don't stop doing what you're doing man I love that you're digging back into what has started technology as we know it today. I hate Macs with the passion I really do but I remember back in the day when they used to ship with dual Motorola CPUs. I was so taken back by that that I ended up buying an old power Mac that was used for graphics design and a printing company Little did I know that a lot of the hardware being used on that board was also available by Texas instruments and I'm not even going to go any further with that because you know what their famous for, calculators lol. I almost forgot the most important part bro and this was actually before my short story lol, you always hear the term customer is always right well this day and age of the customer is always right they wouldn't be on your site watching a video they would be doing the video because customers come to people like you and I that take the time to learn this stuff and understand where it's come from and they don't. If people and nay Sarah's one and they say and complain let them they say complain in the mirror because that's the only demographic that they haven't reached yet.
Hey, man, thank you sooo much!! I really appreciate the support, and your comment really made my day! 🤟 thank you also for sharing your story! Rock on! 🤟
Bel video, mi mancano quei tempi, ho ancora molti vecchi Mac tra Intel e PPC che tengo da collezione, la Apple di ora non è più la stessa.
@@GiuseppeGalli Grazie!!!! ❤️❤️🤟🤟
great video! I've got one of these and it's perfect for just playing retro games, though I also use it to browse the internet once in a while. It actually performs alright and can play UA-cam videos, although only at a lower res. I have it paired the Apple Pro Speakers and audio quality is amazing.
Also just wanted to point out that you put it the PRAM battery backwards
@@scarlettppc Hey, thanks a lot! Thanks for sharing your experience, it’s crazy that it can actually play UA-cam at all!
And, yeah, I’ve already gotten a ton of comments about the battery - not sure how that happened, pretty dumb 😅 it’s fixed now!
Still up and running over here.
@@fiskurtjorn7530 That’s awesome! 🤟
I was hoping to see repasting of the IBM Power CPU:(
Hey, I also thought about changing out the thermal paste, but since I wasn’t going to be using it for extended periods of time, I just decided not to mess with it for the time being. I’ve read some horror stories about the CPU’s cooking themselves to death if you apply an incorrect amount of TP. 😬 But if I do end up using it more often, I’ll definitely change it. Thanks for commenting! 🤟
I love old PC tech, I have in my posession the PowerMac G4 in the blue case one of the 1999 models I got it from a friend and it has a dead power supply and am waiting for the replacement to arrive. I also have an iBook G4 1.2ghz model that works great for what I need it for.
What facinates me is the community and folks like me that have respect of these old systems and how PAINFULLY SLOW they were back then compared to today but they still got the required task done.
Hey man, thanks a lot for sharing! Hopefully you’ll get yours up and running soon 🤟
@@schvabek thanks for that. I hope so too.
In 4:13 you puts battery backwards polarity ;/
@@dktr2 I did switch it to correct polarity later 😁
Was the bios battery installed backwards?
@@dvdr866 hey, thanks for commenting! I don’t think so.
oh! if you can find the copper heatsink and dual 1.42 G4s get them
@@joshj88 Is that the last model 3,6, FireWire 800 one? I’d love to have one! 🤟
@@schvabek I mean you can upgrade the CPU module in the Mac you already have.
But it runs pretty warm so Apple made the heat sink copper instead of aluminum for most of the duals
you think that bong was nuts, try the Pioneer japan only power mac 6100 clone... it has a real big bong thanks to an integrated 2.1 speaker system
@@joshj88 Haha, I’d love to try that one! It’s not only loud, but like distorted, woolly and harsh, that speaker is kinda blown out. I loved the sound!
It might be fun to install a modern power pc Linux operating system and use it as your main pc for a period for a video.
@@michaelanderson654 I’m running a Mac Pro 1.1 almost daily, did a video on it 😁 But I definitely should try Linux on these old things, definitely a video in the future!
still using my g4 powermac & scsi canon scanner to scan in my photos :)
@@christopherhood9241 Haha, that’s AWESOME! 🤟
I had a mirror door G4 back in the day. At one point I brought it to work and used it as my work computer. It was pretty good at the time. I remember when I eventually sold it, not long before the Intels came out, I got very close to what I paid for it. Oh, amazing Apple resale value, we miss you.
@@SSubZero Hey, thanks for sharing! Yeah, I actually used to refurbish and sell older Apple MacBooks (2008-2012 models) and I was able to sell them all the way through to around 2020. So people were happily buying and using a 10-year old Mac.
4:15 Did you install the battery backwards?
EDIT: Yes it’s definitely backwards.
@@nyccollin It’s in correctly, not sure how this particular shot made it in the video 😂
@@schvabek If you took it out and reversed it but yeah the video shows it being put in backwards.
@@nyccollin Yes, i did. Not sure how I managed to do that, pretty dumb, but it’s in the right way around now 😅
its somethong how something so expensive and wanted most ppl would nt even want for free now thats how fast n powerfull our computer evolutiio is now
Yeah, it’s crazy! Although these old Macs have become quite a collectible, and they can fetch insane prices actually.
To this day, selling my complete-in-box, G4 MDD FW800 back in 2013 is my biggest regret.
@@ProtoFalcon07 Hey, man, that sucks! I also have my fair share of regrets. My dad and I had like 5-6 Macintosh Performas we got for free, and ended up recycling them because we had to get rid of them, and nobody wanted them back in 2007-08
Believe this machine can run OS9, but it has to be the correct version. It’s very picky because of the ‘newer’ CPUs.
Yeah, as I’ve said I’ve tried a couple of variants I thought were compatible. If I want to run os9, I can always boot to it from that boot disk 🤘
This isn't a super computer... Not by any standard. This is a Workstation. Think about Xeon workstations... WTX standard Motherboards and such. The Power Mac Series were Workstations and the Power Mac G5 was a Dual Socket like the WTX standard except it was Apple's own design.
I totally agree. The only reason I called it a supercomputer is because Apple did so in its marketing 🤷♂️
7:53 EARRAPE BONG!!!!!!!!
@@vaderexmachina I definitely wasn’t expecting that lol 😂 it was all distorted, fuzzy and muffled too, sounded awesome!
Great video! Subbed!
@@coredoughboy Aww man, that’s awesome! Thank you! 🤟❤️
I have made a mATX Hackintosh in this Case.
Hey, that’s very cool! Would love to see how that runs! 🤟
Nanosaur has an M1 Apple Silicon version
@@danielktdoranie I knew there were ports to x86 and m1, but come on, this is cooler 😁
Apple would never do it, but if they sold replica ATX or ITX cases of these, there are lots of people who would want them
Hey, thanks for commenting! Yeah, I can’t imagine Apple doing that, but I guess nothing would prevent you from putting a regular mobo in this thing. I guess it would require a bit of modification, but an interesting project for sure! Especially if you have a dead or gutted unit.
@@schvabek That's true, it can be done. It does take a lot of skill and knowhow though. For a while G5 cases were a favorite for 'hackintoshes'
@@zaxchannel2834 Yeah, I guess the G5 cases had a lot more room and were more akin to “regular” cases, and therefore easier to modify. Especially when you removed the processors and the heat sinks. Those things take up a ton of room.
PPC G4 and AMD K7 was released in 1999.
AMD Athlon, Intel Pentium III and Alpha engaged in the GHz race.
Yeah, at this point Apple did its best to “bust the ghz myth” 😁
@@valenrn8657 but SIMD ALU was something only the Motorola/IBM G4 had. Btw @schvabek - there were two versions of the G4. small batch that IBM produced rather than Motorola. I've read it on an article somewhere - might've been Anandtech during that time.
This era of Apple is my favorite because they had all the energy and cleverness of a market leader, with none of the pressure for conformity - or the opposite! The incentive was to go for new colours, new materials, new shapes, and the scale of manufacturing also allowed more experiment and variety.
And personally exciting because the energy and focus was all about desktops, not yet smartphones. Laptops were definitely getting more attention after 2001 titanium though, but while it represented perfection, it was also the start of 25+ years of similarity! That first G4 laptop was certainly an amazing template for the 21st century of laptops (and computers generally, you could say) - 25 years will be more like 50.
@@whophd Right?? Exactly what I’m feeling! I like the sleek, no-thrills aluminium/steel/glass aesthetic, but man do I miss the times they did crazy, futuristic translucent plastic designs. Just awesome.
@@schvabekRight!!! ✌️ The iMac G4 maybe represents this the best, but recently I rediscovered the 1999 MacWorld keynote. It was probably the last time somebody outside Apple introduced Steve Jobs. But as I watched it, I was shocked at how SERIOUSLY they were respecting the choice of colours and styles. They had an ENTIRE PROFESSIONAL lineup in blue, and THIS WAS NORMAL NOW. I literally got on board with this 100% (and I was the perfect age to ingest this propaganda as well).
@@whophd Oh yeah, the keynotes are my guilty pleasure for sure 😬 I can’t even watch the modern ones, but the old ones really did feel like Christmas. I know it’s silly, but still. I started watching them when we’ve gotten flat rate internet (around 07 I guess), and yeah, I was a total Apple cheerleader.
Sorry a song got stuck in my head had to figure out what song it was so I stopped watching for a bit which may hurt your metrics. It was Tom’s diner
@@michaelanderson654 Haha, that’s cool, no worries! Good song too! 🤟
@@schvabek I sometimes wonder if I have undiagnosed ADHD
@@michaelanderson654 Haha, don’t we all? 😂
mumbling russian curses is the epitome of rosyah
@@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim It’s something of a second language for me, so the curses come natural to me in stressful situations 😂
Hi there, I know exactly what you mean! I do this frequently and recently I bought a Powermac G5 Quad to patch up. This one did not survive unfortunately, LCS died. But I also have a Powermac G5 early 2005 maxed out. Is works great with two Apple Cinema 23 Displays, 8gigs of RAM and a killer Nvidia 6800 Ultra DDL videocard. It runs on Sorbet Leopard.
Hey, that’s AWESOME! Sounds like a killer config. Thanks for sharing!
The G4 was epic. It was my first rodeo with Adobe Photoshop. However this version I was in 11th Grade when it released. Snow Leopard OS 8 was the one I was on in 8th/9th grade. (after the Y2K event)
Hey, that’s awesome, thanks for sharing! ❤
I hung on to mine for awhile and then gave it away. I had it running debian towards the end of life.
That’s cool! Hopefully the person you gave it to is enjoying it 🤟
what auction did you get this from? i love these machines. never had one. i kept my dual-socket mac pro 5,1 just in case.
Hey, thanks a lot for commenting! It’s a local auction here where I live, so not eBay.
@@schvabek oh nice. I've always wanted a quicksilver Mac (that's what that powermac was called). Some of the best versions Apple had. The early G3/G4 with the frosted text was my favorite, since Mac OS 9 was also my favorite OS (the window shares were fantastic)
@@chrisa4072 there were three generations of g4, quicksilver is the second one I believe. This one is great, but as far as design goes, they’re all superb in my opinion. The g3/g4/g5… There’s just something about the design of the day, before aluminium.
@@schvabek actually I think those were called the mirror powermacs because of the shiny cd/DVD/super drive tray. The quicksilver came later (those had the optical doors which slid a different way) but also just as nice looking. The Aluminum G4 power books were very nice too but most covered were the titanium PowerBook G4. OS X tiger was their best visual implementation IMO, and I think began the move away from the aqua interface which Microsoft tried to copy with XP media edition/longhorn that eventually became vista/7
@@chrisa4072 Yeah, Mirrored Disk Drives - MDD 😁
I have one that used by Disney ❤
Wow, that’s cool! Disney and Pixar were big on Apple 😂
500 MHz CPU.
236 MB of RAM.
for $3500........😶
The SPECs on the USB DRIVE plugged into my computer right now are higher than that.😐
@@pacershark452 Oh boy, wait until you hear how much 640k of ram costed back in 1985 😁
@@schvabek It can't be more than a PS5 PRO....🙄
@@pacershark452 Well, depending on the source, you could’ve paid about 1300$ in 1984 (or 3935$ in todays money) for a megabyte of RAM. I don’t know how many ps5 you can get with that, but the point is, yeah, technology gets cheaper and better every day 😂🤟
@@schvabek Ugh......I love the 80's, but not THAT much.🙃
LOL! The moment that thing was announced I already had a MORE powerful PC with four processors. That overpriced POS from Apple was not a supercomputer. Perhaps if it had released in 1971.
A shame you know nothing of computing histoyr.
@@Great-Documentaries Hey, thanks for commenting! I also probably wouldn’t call this thing a supercomputer, I just quoted Apple 😂 The catch supposedly being it can perform 1 billion operations a second 🤷♂️
MDD G4 wasn't classified as a weapon, though. That's the last G4 before the G5 came out.
I don’t how how much I believe all that marketing mumbo-jumbo about it really being classified as a weapon though 😅
@@schvabek Don't believe any of it, as it was all marketing bull. (export restrictions were a thing, but because of "MIPS".)
Prefer the previous G4 , this one is just too noisy
@@scubadive25 Yeah, this one is quite noise! I’ve read about how people who bought these things for music production were upset by the noise and had to build custom noise suppressing cases for them 😂
There used to be good games for Mac, what happened?
@@michaeldavidson8971 I’m also so sad Apple gave up on gaming, at one point they were really pushing hard for that market. The issue for me was availability. I think that outside the US, retail games (especially before internet) were really hard to come by, at least in my experience 🙁
Prediction: sub count will be at 1K within the next 48 hrs
@@thethriftyfawn Let’s goooo! 😎🤟
@@thethriftyfawn P. S. Thanks for checking in on me 🤟😊
@@schvabek I put the video on to watch and listen to again as entertainment while doing chores that I don't feel like doing but need to get done lol... and saw the numbers have climbed! 😃
@@thethriftyfawn Your killing me - that’s my favourite way of enjoying UA-cam 😂 And to think that people now are doing the same thing with my videos just warms my heart ❤️ You do them chores with my videos in the background!!! 🤘😎
@@schvabekAwwwwww! Yeah, but reat assured, I only put on youtube videos that I've already seen while doing chores- I always make sure my initial viewing is with my full attention (with the exception of food or snacks while watching LOL 😁)
i have a Powermac g5
@@2xtreem4u That’s awesome! What configuration is it?
@@schvabek PowerPC G5 (970) @ 1.60 GHz
G4, why you need that, running WHAT ????
I don’t need it, it’s just fun 🤷♂️
You don't, in same way no one needs to drive a 1950 Cadillac automobile or fly a 1914 biplan plane. You do it for fun and the nostalgia factor. I'm a bit older and I have an Amiga computer that I still use from time to time, for the same reason.
@@regisdumoulin well said! I have an Amiga myself, as well as an Atari 1040ST and I love them!
using apple devices? opinion rejected
@@Dar1gaaz Somebody doesn’t like Apple 😅
This is what I don't understand. How does someone not plug in the power? How many thousand devices have you powered in your lifetime to STILL forget to plug in the power?? I always wondered who the first step in user guide troubleshooters 'ensure power is plugged in and switched on', was aimed at. And have you literally NEVER EVER used that socket before, by not knowing it doesn't work?! I mean, WTF dude.
@@leodf1 Lol, sorry, I didn’t mean to upset you dude 😂 I’m setting these things up temporarily on my table and I have to get the power from an extension cord plugged to the other side of the room, because I don’t have an outlet nearby. So the extension cord was not plugged in, because I’ve plugged something else in in the meantime.
As far as the socket not working, the breaker popped for some reason earlier in the day. So there’s that.
No need to be so salty, sometimes people are just dumb, like me 🤷♂️😂
It's going to be okay, I promise
@@coredoughboy Right? 😅
@@schvabek LOL, sorry man. I get triggered for nothing. You have such a laid-back cool attitude; I suppose forgetting the power fits. Hahah. Keep it up.
@@leodf1 Hey, I appreciate you being understanding 😉 Cheers!
Omg. I couldn’t sit through the whole vid…
@@carlosnumbertwo Hey, man, sorry to hear that! Anything in particular that bothered you?
Скоро сшвабеку понадобится еще одна хата для его апл техники.
А х86 выйдут? А скиньте линукс/ретрошиндовс.
Видел, что на старых маках работают лбди в глубинке, где есть старое тв-вещание. Вроде что-то конвертеруют или похожее
ЗЫ я все еще жду видос по стим дику
Норм запилы в конце кстати
@@ro1934 В скором будущем съезжаем отсюда)) Будет нормальный дом с подвалом для всего моего хлама.
Про этих ребят из глубинки на маках надо срочно выпуск снимать, офигительная тема!
А стим дека нету у меня.
ua-cam.com/video/Ea0-Sots0qY/v-deo.html Миленько)) Думал, послышалось
@@pentiummmx3482 Ну, это типа для своих))