Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac
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Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac
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Re: Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac
#2Las week I brougth an old G4 the poped up in the marked. A rare thing to occour here, since they where super expensive when new.
I paid something like 20 bucks for it. It came with a busted ide hard drive, but no worries. I went online and brought an ide to sd card adapter, and will now install Tiger in it.
I don't spect to take any serious workload, but It will problably be fine to run Starcraft and Diablo II in it. Will see.
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#3There are some Linux distros that still support 32-bit PowerPC architecture. Many old Macs find second-life running Mate or Xfce desktop.
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#4I'm not trying to be a downer, but there is absolutely no reason to do this. For $50 you can do so much better without really trying all that hard.
Now I fully appreciate the draw of doing something like this as a hobby or something, but this article is talking about productivity. This is not an investment for productivity.
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#5Maybe it's just me, but the user interface on that old PowerPC Mac looks gorgeous - way better than modern "flat" UIs
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#6Uh, if all you need is to write documents on an air-gapped machine, it seems like practically anything would do the job. Any Mac of any age whatsoever, a typewriter ...
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#7For approximately 10x as much ($500 USD), you can get a pre-retina Air, which has a much improved keyboard, working wifi, flash storage, and a modern OS and browser. It also happens to be way lighter.
To me that’s more than a 10x improvement over the setup the author describes. There’s relatively little you can’t do on such a $500 machine.
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#8new web browser for PowerPC Mac: http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
new OS for PowerPC Mac: https://voidlinux-ppc.org/
or, a new PowerPC computer: https://www.talospace.com/
Re: Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac
#9Las week I brougth an old G4 the poped up in the marked. A rare thing to occour here, since they where super expensive when new. I paid something like 20 bucks for it. It came with a busted ide hard drive, but no worries. I went online and brought an ide to sd card adapter, and will now install Tiger in it. I don't spect to take any serious workload, but It will problably be fine to run Starcraft and Diablo II in it.…
You'd be better off with a CF to IDE adapter. SD really isn't well suited to be a main OS volume. Or just get a SATA to IDE adapter.
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#10Maybe it's just me, but the user interface on that old PowerPC Mac looks gorgeous - way better than modern "flat" UIs
I find flat more aesthetically pleasing but often harder to use, and I've seen data to back that up.
Problem is that people tend to confuse the two and fool themselves into thinking pretty equals usable. Glossy vs matte screens are the classic example. Glossy looks pretty but has way more issues with glare.