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  1. Powermac G4 MDD Single 1.25Ghz Core 1MB L3 Cache 1.75 GB DDR SDRAM, Ati Radeon 9000 Pro (though i think about changing it to boost video/graphics performance)

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  4. iBook G4, 1.2ghz, 10.4.11 and MintPPC. Tenfourfox with downloadhelper and flashvideoreplacer extensions, Camino and Omniweb, Office 2004, Mactubes and Youview for youtube. Coreplayer allows me to playback and stream 720p HD video on this old mac. XMBC gives me Al Jazeera and Vimeo in HD. Classic gives me access all of my classic apps and files created over twenty years of computing. PowerPC forever.

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  6. -Powerbook G4 15″, 1.5 GHz, 1.5 GB ram, 80 GB HD, Superdrive, 10.5.8
    -Powermac G5 2.5 GHz, 5 GB ram, 300 GB HD, Superdrive, 10.5.8
    -iMac G4 15″, 700 MHz, 1 GB ram, 80 GB HD, Superdrive, 10.4.11
    -iMac G3, 500 MHz, 512 MB ram, 80 GB HD, CD-rom, 9.2.2
    -Mac LC II, 16 MHz, 2 MB ram, 80 MB HD, CD-rom, 7.5.5

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  7. Still enjoy my emac G4 700Mhz model cd rom model.

    It does tasks ok.

    Please Keep mac PowerPC alive.

    Its not fare for high end G4 and G5 users to misout on modern fun

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  8. PowerPC macs are 4 years behind in software

    Intel macs are currently up to date.

    There’s no new software for PowerPC macs.

    Is there any game projects for mac powerpc?

    Im looking for good games for mac powerpc?

    PowerPC macs have missed out on lots good games compared to windows side.
    For example no grand theft auto for powerpc macs.

    We need to come up with some good GTA 3 clone for PowerPC macs
    How about Power Theft Auto.

    I can’t find a GTA 3 clone for mac PowerPC.
    Im limited

    I still like my beloved emac 700Mhz it plays games well it has a sharp flat crt screen.

    A flat CRT monitor would be hard to find on the PC side.

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  9. I’m Polish, and even though we did not have to sell Apple computers with PowerPC processors, however, I am fascinated by them and write a similar blog.

    1. iMac G4 1.25, 1.25 Ram, 80Gb HDD and Leopard on it.
    2. iBook G4 1.20, 512 Ram, 30 Gb HDD and Leopard on it.

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    • While Microsoft (and even Apple) has everyone thinking that x86, CISC processing is the way to go, the Power architecture and its ARM/RISC brethren are quietly taking over the world (and even Mars). CISC is a great platform for lazy coders, but RISC (and especially vector-processed RISC) processors are the best bang for the buck there is when they coding is done well.

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  10. Production machine:
    PowerBook G4 15″ 1.33 GHz 2 GB ram, 10.5.8

    Couch surfing & Road machines:
    iBook G3 12″ 800 MHz 640 MB ram, 10.4.11
    PowerBook „Pismo“ 400 MHz G3 1 GB ram, 10.4.11

    Running Tenfourfox 9 on all machines. Photoshop 8 (CS1), Office 2004, GraphicConverter, iTunes 10.5, Cyberduck, Safari 5, Google Earth, EyeTV etc. on the production machine.

    The PowerBook G4 doesn’t feel „old“, the G4 has enough power for what I do (mostly typing and researching), the software is current or semi current (not worse than on a typical Windows machine or even Intel Mac). None of the computers looks old, heck the Pismo is 12 years and going strong and looking better and cooler than most of today’s Windows laptops (and is more expandable than any Intel MacBook). The iBook is really cute and small and lighweight. I don’t have the urge to buy a new computer any time soon.

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  11. iMac G5
    eMac G4
    MacBookPro Intel

    If we are truly moving to “cloud” computing then power pc should be adequate for years to come for most users.

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  15. Power Mac G5, Dual 1.8 ghz
    Upgraded hard drives, Wireless card, Super-drive, etc.

    Runs great, mostly used as a media server and household chores. General surfing, email, etc. handled by original iPad, iPhone 4S and Apple TV 2.

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  16. Power Mac G5 Quad (4 x 2.5 GHz G5), 6GB RAM, 2 x 500GB SATA RAID-0.
    PowerBook G4 (last version)
    Both running 10.5.8. Performance was great until somewhere around Safari 5.0.6, which is dog slow on Flash and JS-heavy sites (youtube, tuaw, etc.). Performance is still good in other areas.

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  17. ibook 1.33hgz
    imac 20″ G5 2.0ghz
    imac g3
    imac 17″ g5 1.8ghz
    another imac g3
    and 2 intel macbooks….
    love the idea behind your blog… love my powerpc’s and always trying to keep them alive…just donated to you and consider it money well spent

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    • Hi there, I want to say thank you for your comment and for the donation, but I was checking my paypal account and there is no donation pending, did you complete the transaction? Check your statement to make sure that you were not charged.

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    • I’m running an iBook G4 10.5.8 at 1.33 GHz with 1.5 GB ram 30 gb HD with a pair of 2 terabyte hard drives , mini vga out , with dual display hack , iSub by Harmon Kardon for the boom(required some hack also). I use a VLC remote app on my iPhone , a VNC app and WordPress app powering a LAN site. My only wish list is for an offline Wikipedia reader ! Or way to put it onto media wiki as I also have that running on the server using MAMP pro ( I found it very hard to access MySQL without MAMP). I recently sold a 1ghz G4 iBook and a 500 mhz G4 Powermac.
      Love my PPC macs always looking to pick one up out of retirement and recently saw an old tangerine clamshell running OS9 !
      Thanks for the great site !

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  21. I have a Power Mac G5 dual 2.3 GHz
    6 GB of DDR2 RAM
    90 GB OCZ Vertex II SSD
    1.5 TB Samsung drive
    and running on Mac OS X 10.5.8

    And it’s really fast!

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  22. I have a Powermac G4 MD 867 Mhz DP 1,5GB DDR RAM 160GB HD (two partitions) + 75 GB HD. This machine runs on 10.5.8. I also have a Powermac G4 350 MHz SP 1GB 40 GB HD (which I use sometimes to do long-lasting procedures. It runs on 10.4.11, but honestly it is a bit slow compared to my other machines.
    I also use an iBook G4 1.33 512MB ram 40GB HD, on 10.5.8.
    My G4 867Mhz is faster than my iBook, which proves that dual processors are more important than clock speed.
    My wife has an iMac i5 on Lion (2.5Ghz 4GB 500GB). I don’t like this machine and it doesn’t run any faster than my G4 867Mhz. I think this is due to heavy Lion. Anyway, I like Leopard most of all versions of OSX. I hope I can keep on using it for a long time still. I think the design of Jaguar was most beautiful of all, but the system was limited in possibilities (compared to Leopard).
    I have got the beautiful install packages of Leopard (5-pack), Tiger, Panther, Jaguar and OS9. I never had the chance to buy the full installation discs of 10.1 en 10.0.
    O yeah, my first Mac ever was a ColorClassic 4MB RAM 80MB HD, system 7.5. I sold it for 50 dollars, which was a stupid thing do… :-( I also had a Performa 630, but honestly, this wasn’t my most beautiful Mac. My iMac 17-inch Core 2 Duo is broken a the moment – the screen has a big flickering looper of about a inch…
    You can call me a Macfreak, although I have used with most Windows versions too :-(

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  23. But I bought most of them for almost nothing. I bought my PowerMacs for 50 and 30 euros. My iBook costed me 125 euros… :-) Second hand Macs are just as good as new!

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  24. I have: PowerBook G3; iMac G3; PowerMac G3; PowerMac G4; eMac; PowerMac G5…and they are just my powerpc machines! Love them and will never get rid of them.

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  26. iBook G4 12 inch 1.33 GHZ running Leopard
    iBook G4 14 inch 1.42 GHZ with no hard drive
    iMac G3 running panther

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  28. PowerMac: dual 1.42GHz G4, 2GB PC2700, Radeon 9600 (AGP) and Radeon 9200 (PCI), SATA RAID, USB 2, FW800 and AirPort Extreme (Leopard)
    PowerMac: dual 533MHz G4, 1.5GB PC133, Radeon 9000 (Tiger)
    iMac: 17in ALS, 1.8GHz G5, 2GB PC3200, Radeon 9600 (Leopard)
    PowerBook: 12in, 1.5GHz G4, 1.25GB PC2700, GeForce FX Go 5200
    Mac Mini: 1.42GHz G4, 1GB PC2700, Radeon 9200 (Leopard Server)
    eMac: 1GHz G4, 1GB PC133, Radeon 7500 (Leopard)
    iMac: 600MHz G3, 1GB PC133, ATi Rage128 (Tiger)

    Plus some Intel Macs, including a couple of Hackintoshes.

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  29. Quicksilver G4 800 and 933, MDD Dual 867, PowerBook G4/1.33 and my 1st non-PowerPC, iMac 27″ 3.4 i7. My PowerBook has been replaced by the iPad for the most part but it has the Adobe CS4 suite (licensed from work) on it so it’s still quite usable for some pixel work on the road. The 933 and the Dual 867 were freebies from work along with two 23″ ADC monitors.

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  30. I use two old iBook G4s, two Macbook Pros and an iMac with PowerPC. For those wanting to upgrade to the new Mountain Lion, be forewarned that you’ll need to upgrade to Snow Leopard before being able to get Mountain Lion (I’m on 10.5.8). And as is typical of Apple, the Snow Leopard upgrade is NO LONGER AVAILABLE in the Apple Store. I guess they’re just trying to phase us out as always. I quickly grabbed a Snow Leopard on Amazon for $50 but they’re going fast.

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    • Wow Peggy did you pay $50 for Snow Leopard on Amazon? They were $29 at apple.com few weeks ago but I checked and they are no longer available anymore. In my opinion Snow Leopard is the best Mac OS X ever, it’s too bad PowerPC can not upgrade because if we could I would be very happy using Snow Leopard.

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      • Well, I guess I’m a sucker too! Bought Snow Leopard, tried to install it and no go! No Way! No Snow Leopard for PowerPC. So I’m returning it. Is there no hope for us? My iMac is perfect, powerful, functional. What now? Is it only a matter of time until we’re obsolete?

  31. Sawtooth G4 dual 450, 256 Mb, 80 Gb + 160 GB raid array. Swapped for a case of beer ‘ cos it had fully optioned FCP on it.
    OS 9 and 1.5GB ram on the way plus a USB 2 PCI card so I can install my Yamaha DSP Factory card. Also have a Mercury Xtreme CPU which I’m not sure what to do with atm. Hoping to get it all running Leopard soon.
    iBook G4 1.3Gb, 768 Mb, 40 Gb HDD runs Tiger. I have Cubase 4 on this because I couldn’t get a firewire audio interface running on a Windows machine.
    I also have a Core 2 Duo Mac Book with Snow Leopard which has has no firewire socket. Grrrr.
    Can anyone tell me if cloning my Tiger drive from the iBook will work in the Power PC?

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  32. Hi
    Powermac g5 Dual Core 2ghz 8go memory
    250 go HDD
    dual Geforce 6600 256Mo with dual 24″ screen (may be one another next month)
    running 10.5.8 Leopard

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  33. I have Powermac MDD 867 Mhz Dual 1,5 GB and iBook G4 1,33 Ghz 0,5GB. I installed my Family Pack Leopard on both of them. They work nice – I use them every day!
    I also have a Powermac 350Mhz 1GB on Tiger but I don’t use very often anymore, mostly just for browsing the internet.

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  34. Gosh, where do I get starter? I am a PPC nut! 11 iMac G3s, 1 PowerMac G3, 2 Power Macintosh G3s, 1 iBook Key Lime, 1 PowerMac G5 2.0 Dual, 1 PowerMac G4 Quicksilver, 1 eMac 1.25, several old 603 and 604 Macs and Clones, and More to Come!

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  36. My PPC Home:
    My Everyday Workhorse:PowerMac G5-Dual 1.8ghz/4g RAM/BluRay Burner/2x500g hdd’s/Radeon 7800 running Dual DVI Displays/OS X 10.5.8
    My Roommates Machine:MacMini G4 1.25ghz/1g RAM/OS X 10.5.8
    My Sons’ machine:IMac G3 400mhz/512mhz RAM/OS x 10.4.11&OS 9 Classic
    My Portable/Work Machine:PowerBook G4 15-1.67ghz/2g RAM/OS X 10.5.8
    (all running pretty damn good, I might add!)

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  37. I own and use five PowerPC mac’s. Each one is used at least a few hours every week, but the one I am using most right now is my G5 and powerbook. These very reliable and stable machines all run Mac OS 10.4.11 and have provided me with years of service. I hope to continue using them for years to come. Thanks for creating this website!

    1. Powermac G5 / dual 2 ghz / Nvidia 6800 Geforce 256mb
    2. Powermac G4 (Quicksilver) / dual 800 mhz / ATI Radeon 9800 128mb
    3. Powermac G3 (Blue & White) / 400mhz / ATI Sapphire 64mb (flashed)
    4. iMac G4 / 1 ghz
    5. 17″ Powerbook G4 / 1.67 ghz

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  39. Long life to your blog.

    PowerPC
    Macintosh Classic (l’ancêtre, running pretty well) System 6.0.3
    iMac G3 – 266MHz / 256Mo (tangerine) 10.3.9
    eMac 1,42GHz / 1,5Go (children’s one) 10.4.11 & 10.5.8
    PowerMac QS 2002 1x800MHz / 1,25Go (everyday use) 10.4.11 & 10.5.8

    Intel :
    MacBook C2D 2008/MacPro quad 2008/iMac i5 2011 10.7.2 & 10.8.1

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  42. G3 900mhz 12″ iBook
    Two @ G4 1.25ghz 17″ iMacs
    Multiple newer Intel Mac laptops & iMacs
    BUT………….still love and use my ppc machines!
    (heck yeah my 26+ year old MacPlus still boots and runs 7.5.5 like a champ with a whopping 4 MEGs of ram and a huge 40meg external LaCie drive!)

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  43. iMac G5 1,6 Ghz PPC 17′
    1,25 Gb DDR SD-RAM
    80GB Sata HDD
    Combo Drive /soon Superdrive/
    GeForce FX5200 Ultra vga card
    runs : 10.4.11 Tiger /soon change to Leopard 10.5/

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  44. iBook G4 14-inch 1.42 Ghz 1.5GB RAM DVD still rockin’ for dailly internet surfing & Youtube with Mactubes and Youview & soon (i hope) iMac G5 1.9 Ghz 17” or 20” w/integrated iSight Cool…..Collected: Macintosh LC 580 68k all-in-one with Apple video capture system….:-p Thanks for macpowerpc keeping alive PPC (y)

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  45. Summer 2002 Power Mac G4 quick silver dual 1Ghz, 1.5Gb memory, 200Gb hd.

    June, 2004 power Mac dual G5 2Ghz, 8Gb memory, 2 1Tb Maxtor hd’s airport extream and blutooth, OSX 10.5.8 running Logic Pro 9

    Late 2009 Mac mini, 2.26Ghz intel dual core, 8Gb memory, 500Gb momentous XT hybrid Hd, OSX mountain lion.

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  46. A 500Mhz Titanium PowerBook with 512MB and Leopard. Heck, some friends don’t believe it’s 12 years old! It still works great for typing, spreadsheets and some PowerPoint stuff. And watching DVDs on that fantastic widescreen.

    Then a 12″ PowerBook G4 for travelling. A little faster, but not as sexier…

    (and an Intel iMac for heavy stuff, but I don’t use it everyday…)

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    • Titanium Powerbook is such a nice model , with its’ sharp and thin widescreen, and the black-translucent keyboard…..has some look-alike to the current Macbook Pro style but sleeker….I’m chasing for one unit with the 1ghz G4 processor, hope to find one soon. Congrats for your Powerbook. I have a daily-use iBook G4 1.42 14-inch …nice ‘book also….

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  48. Hello folks. I have a powerbook G4, 10.4.11. Any Idea what can I do to play flashvideos on the net ? I put the adobeflashplayer right version that is and it didn’t work, videos jump all the time
    Thanks a lot.

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    • What flash videos you’re talking about? *.flv files? Or you are trying to watch youtube? For the flv files, you might download a tool called ‘Perian’, which unfortunately won’t get updated anymore. It works for OSX 10.4.7 and up. It includes a ‘pack of codecs’ for watching several formats of files within Quicktime Player (including the flv videos). Also, you could download Realplayer for Mac and VLC Player for Mac.

      For watching Youtube: well, the videos jump all time since the Adobe won’t update Flash player for Macs with PowerPC chips (i.e., powerbook g4, g3, ibook g4, g3, power mac g5, g4, g3 etc)….So, for a fluent watching of this stuff, you might want to go with two software apps : Mactubes, or Youview. Both can play Youtube stuff in a decent way. If you play via Mactubes, there’s a little configuration you need to do, for setting the videos playing via Quicktime player (if you download and doesn’t configure that, videos will also play choppy). So, if you download and launch it, go to the upper menu to : Player -> (and select) Quicktime Player…..and that’s it. Search for the video you want and done. Youview doesn’t need to configure this (but you aren’t able of downloading the videos ;)

      Hope this will work for you.

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    • @baraka… I think a good alternative is to download mactubes and view youtube clips from that application. Another option is if you are using the TenFourFox browser then there’s a nice extension called “Quicktime Enabler” which will allow you to just right click in a window where flash video (like youtube) is playing and open the video in Quicktime. Will even play H.264. You can read more about it here: http://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/wiki/QuickTimeEnabler

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  49. Powermac G5/2.0 Dual/2GB RAM/OS X Leopard Server running server stuff
    Powerbook 17″ A1085 OS X Leopard and couple of Intels, but PPC is more magical

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  52. This is what i keep, most of them in working condition

    Mac Mini Intel Core 2 Duo, 1.83 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard
    iBook G3, 900 Mhz
    PowerBook G3 500Mhz “Pismo”
    iMac G3 400 Mhz Lime,
    iMac G3 600 Mhz Graphite
    PowerMacintosh G3 Minitower 233 MHz,
    PowerMacintosh 5500 Director Edition (Black) 275 Mhz,
    Powermac G4 AGP, 40 Mhz
    Macintosh Quadra 650
    Macintosh IIsi
    Performa 630 Dos Compatible
    Macintosh LC III
    Apple II+ Clone (Katson), 1 Mhz, 64 Kb RAM, 2xDisk II 5,25´

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  55. November 3, 2012 @ 12:32 AM
    Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 2.5 GB DDR SDRAM [upgradable to 8GB] HD 149 GB [I believe I have a port for another but never put one in- may have to soon- almost full! Mac OS X 10.5.8. I love my Mac- orphan that it may be!

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  56. I have 7 macs, 6 of which are ppc or previous:

    imac g5
    ibook g3 dual usb
    ibook g3 clamshell
    powermac g3 Blue and white
    mac lc 475
    mac 512k

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  57. I have 2 Macs…
    PowerBook Duo 230C – still working
    and my default computer is (when i have two powerful PCs)
    PowerMac G5 2,3GHz, 16 GB RAM, HDD 250+500+1000GB, Mac OS X Leopard…

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  58. Power Mac G5
    Prozessorgeschwindigkeit: 2 GHz
    Anzahl der CPUs: 2
    Speicher: 8 GB

    GeForce 6800 Ultra
    VRAM (gesamt): 256 MB
    Core Image: Hardware-unterstützt
    Quartz Extreme: Unterstützt
    Cinema Display: 1680 x 1050 32-Bit Farbe

    ST3160318AS:
    Kapazität: 2x 149,05 GB (Raid: 0)
    Dateisystem: HFS+

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  59. PowerBook G4 800mhZ running OS X 10.4 Server Unlimited Client,
    MacBook Pro 2.3ghZ running 10.8.2
    Not a crash from either of them!

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  62. My PowerPC collection includes:
    Powerbook G4 12′ 1.33GHz, 1.25Gb RAM, 250Gb 5400rpm HDD (primary computer)
    Powermac G4 Cube with 1.33GHz Sonnet CPU, 1.5Gb RAM, 320 Gb HDD, ATI Radeon 7500 + 17′ studio display (media server)
    Powerbook G3 400MHz, 1Gb RAM, 16 Gb CF card (backup machine)

    I’ve also had an Intel macbook (dead motherboard), happy to be back on powerpc machines…

    only Intel machine is a mac mini (originally 1.6 Core Solo, 1Gb Ram), upgraded to 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo, 3 Gb RAM (after firmware upgrade), attached to an apple 20′ ADC cinema display…

    Keep up the good work!

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  63. Found my first Mac on a garage sale for 30€ or 45$. It is a powermac G5 1.6 GHz, 500 GB HDD and 3 GB Ram running with Leopard .(:-)). It only needs a new graphics card. I bought a used ATI 9800 Pro 128 MB and now ….I love my Mac. Fast, great sound and outstanding design.

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  64. 1) 12 inch IBook 1.33 GHz G4 1.5 GB memory 40 GB hard drive, 32 MB ATI video card with sudden motion sensor, DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive and
    2 15 inch Powerbook 1.5 Ghz G4 2GB memory 80 GB hard drive 64 MB ATI video card, no Sudden motion sensor, DVD-R/CD-RW drive, both running Leopard 10.5.8. They are the most stable and energy-efficient Macs that I use (also have three Intel macs). Using Safari 5.0.6, Camino 2.1.3 nightly build. Use Office 2004 and LibreOffice on 15-inch, and LIbre-Office/Abi-Word on 12-inch. Matte displays are dim in sunlight compared to Intel macs, but heat production is very low and feature sets (Bluetooth, WiFI, modem connection, ethernet port, USB and firewire ports, DVD drives) and both are able to play standard definition DVDs without a hiccup, something my Intel Macbook cannot do!

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  65. 12″ Powerbook G4 1.5Ghz maxxed out to 1.25Gb RAM running Leopard, new aftermarket battery gives me 3hrs+ surfing / email and it fits nicely in a leather slipcase designed for a 13″ MacBook Pro.

    Also have a MacMini 2.4 Intel Core 2 Duo with 8Gb RAM and a 64Gb SSD drive running Mountain Lion – v v quick.

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  66. 17″ G5 iMac (1st gen), 1.8Ghz maxed at 2GB RAM running Leopard 10.5.8
    Still love it, great piece of design and practically never fails. Really slow by today’s standards but I love the experience and feel of this machine! Thinking of Swapping the 80GB HDD for a nice large 1TB =)
    PPC lives!

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  68. Powerbook G4 12”, 1.5Ghz. I updated RAM up to 1.25Gb, and replaced original 80Gb HDD with WD Ceviar Blue 320 Gb. Leopard 10.5.8 runs on it pretty well. I like it very much:)

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  70. I have an MDD (originally a single 1.25GHz) modified to the Dual 1.42GHz with Geforce 4 Ti 4600 Videocard. Had wanted to stay fully OS 9 capable, so avoided certain upgrades. OSX 10.4.11 & OS 9.2.2.

    • Maxed Ram (2GB),

    •120GB Hitachi 7200 Deskstar system drive with two partitions – one for OSX and one for OS 9 (Ultra 100 Bus),

    •250GB Hitachi 7200 Cinemastar storage drive split into two partitions for document, video and iTunes folders on one, and a minimal OSX 10.4 rescue system/scratchdisk volume on the other (Ultra 66 Bus),

    •2-4TB Hitachi 7200 Ultrastar drives for long-term storage setup as a mirrored-raid running through a PCI Sata/ESata card,

    •NewerTech 300MB/S N PCI wifi card for OSX,

    •IoGear Universal 150MB/S N ethernet to WiFi Adaptor for OS 9,

    •6 Port USB 2.0 PCI card,

    •Adaptec SCSI PCI card for OS 9 HQ scanning support,

    •Dual Monitors – ADC 17″ CRT for Primary Display, 17″ Dell LCD for Secondary Display (use for watching movies/web-tv through XBMC while working),

    •Sound provided by Harmon Soundsticks II,

    •x86 emulation as needed with DosBox and Q-Emulator.

    •Have managed to find apps/work-arounds to keep it quite useful for graphics, web-design (right up through HTML6), writing, video/animation, publishing and games/entertainment. LOVE MY G4 -Vroom, Vroom!!!

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  74. As I collect certain computing equipment that I like (Mac, IBM clone, Sun etc), I also have the following PPC stuff in my personal museum;

    Powerbook’s: Pismo, Titanium 1GHz, 12″ DVI
    Powermac’s; G3, G4 gigabit, G4 quicksilver, MDD 2003, Cubes, G5 late2005
    iMac’s; G4 15″ early 2003, G5 20″
    Mac mini; original

    My faves are the Powerbook 12″, Cube, PowerMac G5 and iMac G4.

    Nice to know Im not the only one still using my old PPC Macs (entered on the PowerMac G5).

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  78. Power Mac G5, Dual 2.0 ghz PowerPC
    8gb ram
    dual 160gb hd
    leopard 10.5.8
    Cinema 17″ Display

    Just getting my head wrapped around it, for free I’m very happy

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  81. PowerMac G4 Gigabit Ethernet
    400MHz CPU Upgraded with a Sonnet G4 1.2GHz
    Geforce 6200
    2Gb PC133
    Sonnet Tempo SATA PCI
    Samsung 500Gb F3
    Mitsubish 930SB CRT

    and a OCZ Vertex 2 120Gb coming =)

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  83. Although I have an Intel MacBook and Mac Mini to work on I spend my leisure computing time (web surfing/Facebook/iTunes) on my beautiful G4 Flat Panel iMac. The newer iMacs (in fact all the newer Mac products) have never exceeded the design genius of this era. It has a warmth and personality the newer ones lack. Coupled with an external iSight camera, the great Mac Pro speakers and even the Harmon Kardon clear sub-woofer it is a joy to sit down and use every day. Photoshop CS5 still works fine for my needs and Camino and Bits on Wheels have a place too. I love this goofy little monster and it’s never let me down.

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  84. I’m still rocking a 1.33 Ghz PowerBook g4 with 1 bad ram slot. It’s my around the house laptop. Still runs great and plays YouTube videos just fine. I also have a PowerMac G4 533 in my room but that is for light school work, but it soon to be replaced with a G5 which will be used as my main computer.

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  86. Though my desktop is an Intel iMac, my 1.5 GHz PPC G4 PowerBook running OS 10.5.8 remains indispensable. I lost at least nine years’ worth of research and writing (contained in CPM-DOS and ProDOS formatted files) when I had to abandon a still-functional Apple IIe I’d lugged up and down the eastern seaboard and coast-to-coast from 1984 to 2011. I’m not going to make that mistake again!

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  88. Hi,

    Nice to see so many wonderful machines, I have these:

    14″ PowerBook Wallstreet II G3 300 mhz w/ Mac OS 8.6
    12″ iBook G3 600 mhz with Mac OS 9
    12″ iBook G3 800 mhz with Mac OS 9 & Tiger
    12″ PowerBook G4 1.5 Ghz Alu with 7200 rpm hard disk, OSX Tiger and Leopard (my Road Warrior which I take with me when travelling around the globe, last year was my only computer on a road trip around California)
    17″ iMac G5 1.9 Ghz iSight with OSX Tiger

    As Amiga-head, I am planning to get Mini G4 or 15″/17″PB G4 to install MorphOS on it. This cute little OS allows G4 users to watch 720p or maybe better videos without choking! There’s also G5 port being prepared.

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  89. PowerBook 230 Duo, OS 7.5
    Mac Classic, OS 7.5
    Power Macintosh G3 233 MHz, 256 MB, OS 9.2
    PowerBook G3 WS 300 MHz, 64 MB, OS 8.6
    iMac G3 450 MHz, 1 GB, OS 10.4.11/9.2
    PowerMac G4 DA 733 MHz, 1.5 GB, 10.4.11/9.2, 17″ Studio
    iBook G4 12″ 1.2 GHz, 1.25 GB, OS 10.5.8
    iMac G4 1.25 GHz, 2GB, OS 10.5.8
    PowerMac G4 MDD FW 800, dual 1.42 GHz, 2 GB, 23″ Cinema, 17″ Studio, OS 10.5.8
    PowerMac G5 Dual 2.7 GHz, 8 GB, 23″ Cinema, OS 10.5.8
    MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz C2D, 6 GB, OS 10.7.5
    Mac Mini 2.3 GHz Ci5, 8 GB, OS 10.8, 46″ Sharp
    Oh and the Wintel: Gigabyte P35 MoBo, 3.0 GHz C2D (OC’d to 4.0), 8GB, Win 7

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  91. I have a Dual g5 2 ghz qith 3g ram, running very good!!!!! early 2004, works fine! but at this time, not exist much apps for this machine today…..only for intel mac…..any knows an app to work for music, edit songs etc, thanksss

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  92. I own an EMac, 1.42 GHZ, 1 GB Ram, 80 GB Hard drive. Next to it I have a power mac Dual core 867 MHZ, 60 GB HDD (I added a 120 GB HDD which is also a network drive for my emac) and 1.5 GB of Ram.
    Runs way faster than my old Windows desktop which i have now sold which had 2.2 GHZ and 1.5 GB Ram. Also, the set up cost me under £100. With the Emac off eBay for £1.04. And it’s a perfectly good set up for writing letters, photo editing and storage (its main use) watching films and web browsing. Also, I edit my blog for budget smartphones on there.
    With the money left over from buying Secondhand PPC equipment rather than Windows or intel macs that would meet my requirement, I was able to put a lot of money into a digital SLR, and still have a perfectly good setup.

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  93. Dual G4 867MHZ; 2GB RAM; 280GB HAD; 10.4.11 to run iMovie, edit pictures, sounds, layouts and all the usual stuff.
    G4 twelve-inch iBook 1.25GHZ; 1.5GB RAM; 120GB HD; 10.4.11 to run all the above when I’m travelling.
    Generally keep a spare G4 workstation in the background to run a MAMP environment for web development: from memory the current spare is a deadhead single processor MDD with 2GB RAM and an airport card.

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  94. iMac Version 10.5.8
    Processor 1.8 GHz PowerPC G5
    Memory 1.25 GB DDR SDRAM
    AirPort Card Airport Extreme
    Chipset Model: GeForce FX 5200

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  95. Power Mac G4 (carte AGP); PowerPC G4 (2.7); 450 MHz; 512 Mo; ModèleM7825LL/B (oct. 2001) 2x140Gb DD. Os 10.4.11; TenFourFox & Tenfourbird; MacTube; Elmedia Player; iSquint; Audacity; Xee; etc…
    Many thanks to Mac PowerPC ! From here I have found all I need to enjoy and be proud of my PPC! (I even re-install Classic!) ;-)

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  96. I have a pretty much maxed out G4, and I love it! Here it is:
    PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio)
    1,2GHz Sonnet Encore ST CPU wih 2MB L3 cache
    768MB SD Memory
    80GB Maxtor ATA HDD
    ATI Radeon 9600 64MB Mac edition (Pins 3 and 11 covered)
    Mac OS X 10.5.8
    Apple white keyboard
    Apple Mighty mouse
    Looking to buy a PCI USB2.0 card to be able to use flash disks at full speed

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  98. Greetings from Latvia. I have PowerBook G4, 1.33GHz PowerPC G4, 1GB DDR, and it runs great and it look like as good as new!!! No scratched at all!!!
    I bought it for 65Ls = 120$!!!

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  99. I’m not sure exactly what I have, I need some help figuring it out, i think it’s a G4 PowerPC, can’t figure out the processor speed :( , has 2 fire-wire ports, an Ethernet port, 2 usb ports, 2 additional memory bays [which i filled :) ], a CD-RW drive, and 3 1/2 Floppy disk..
    I have ADDED: 2 additional Ethernet cards installed, a fax modem, Wi-Fi networking card, and a extra 124 MB of ram for a modest total of around 636 MB.
    If you know what type of mac i have please tell me… i cant figure it out because it came with Ubuntu 11.04 when i got it. I am going to update it to 12.4.02 LTS today….

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  100. 2x Powermac g4 (1,25 dual)
    g4 cube
    powermac g5 quad
    imac g4 and g5
    powerbook g4
    macbook white and black
    macbook pro
    iMac (2010)
    Mac mini g5 c2d and i5 dual

    and my holy and loved xserve x3

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  101. I’m still using the following PPC Mac’s in my household:

    PowerMac G4 Cube with a 22″ Cinema-Display
    PowerMac G3 Blue&White with matching Studio-Display
    PowerBook G4 867 Mhz Titanium
    PowerBook G4 12″ 1,25 Ghz

    They are still very useful for Music, Web-Browsing and Office Work.

    Keep the PPC runnin’

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  105. PowerMac G4 QuickSilver 733MHz 1GB RAM 80GB HDD with Tiger 10.4.11
    I tried to run Leopard with LeopardAssist but it’s too damn slow! Tiger is perfect for this Mac!

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  106. Hi, first thanks for this useful blog.
    I have a PowerBook G4 17″ 1Ghz 1,5GB Ram, WD 250GB HDD with 10.5.8 Leopard and it’s so beautiful with this screen ! I can run a lot of apps like iLife and iWork ’09, C4D r11, Adobe CS2, SimCity 4, Myst IV…
    It’s a little slow but it’s not a problem !
    And if you need of a old app (like the last Spotify PPC app) contact me !

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  107. I have a power Mac G5 Quad baby. I love this machine, the only downside is that apple doesnt support it anymore. I feel like I have to hack everything or do soem sort of work around for anythign to work right.

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  110. Hello all Apple freak out there , i got my PowerPc G5 dual 2.0 recently and it’s my secondary machine, it show it’s face on Cinema display 20″ which they all work very nice look and amazing.

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  111. PowerMac G4 upgraded to 2ghz G4, 1gb Ram, Radeon 9800 Pro, 120gb HD
    PowerMac G5 1.8 DP, Radeon 9600 Pro, 4 500 GB SATA, 5.5gb Ram

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  113. I bought an old Powerbook G4 (third hand) from a friend. It was just collecting dust in his closet. He wasn’t technical at all which is why it was just sitting there with a corrupt OSX installation. I installed Ubuntu on it for a while but the wireless drivers didn’t want to work properly so loading pages happened at a snail’s space. I left it that way for a while then reverted to a custom version OSX v10.6.7. Now the internet works perfectly. There is still plenty of life left in this system thanks to dedicated developers.

    The most important software I have on here is the Camino browser, LIbreOffice, and VLC. I greatly appreciate these developers for continuing to update their software on PPC computers.

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  114. I have the following PowerPC computers:

    Desktops Used Daily at Work:

    Power Macintosh G5 2.0 DP (PCI-X) PowerMac7,2 with G5 2.0 GHz and 4 GB RAM, running OS X 10.4.11 with Classic Mode and OS X 10.5.8.

    Apple Power Macintosh G3/233 Desktop, with Sonnet G4 500MHz ZIF CPU and 768MB RAM, running OS 9.2.2, OS X 10.3.9, OS X 10.4.11 with Classic Mode OS 9.2.2.

    Desktops Used Regularly at Home:

    Apple Power Macintosh G5/2.3 GHz DP (Early 2005 and PCI-X 2) PowerMac7,3 with G5 2.3 GHz and 8 GB RAM, running OS X 10.4.11 with Classic Mode and OS X 10.5.8.

    Apple Power Macintosh G5/2.0 GHz DP (Late June 2004 and PCI-X 2) PowerMac7,3 with G5 2.0 GHz and 7 GB RAM, running OS X 10.4.11 with Classic Mode and OS X 10.5.8.

    Laptops in regular use:

    Powerbook Pismos with G4 550MHz CPU upgrades and 1GB RAM, running OS 9.2.2, OS X 10.3.9, OS X 10.4.11 with Classic Mode OS 9.2.2, and/or OS X 10.5.8.

    Powerbook G3 500MHz Pismos with 1GB RAM, running OS 9.2.2, OS X 10.3.9, and/or OS X 10.4.11 with Classic Mode OS 9.2.2.

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  115. I have a iMac G4 1.25 Ghz with a 20″ screen. I updated it with 2 GB Ram and a harddrive with 500 GB it’s running 10.58 OSX

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  117. I have a Imac 20 inch from 2007, its my main desktop, power mac G5 2.0 Ghz, 2GB Ram, 160GB HDD,10.5.8 Leopard with a 17 Inch studio display.
    Power mac G4 MDD, 2 GB ram, 120 GB HDD with 10.5.8 Leopard, 30 GB HDD with 10.4.11 Tiger with a 22 inch cinema display, with adaptor from DVI to ADC, external Isight camera.
    Power mac G4 cube, 350 Ghz, 1 GB ram, 40 GB HDD, with a 21 inch CRT studio display.
    Power mac G3 B&W, 350 GHz, 1 GB Ram, 40 GB HDD, OS classic 9.2.2, with an 21 inch CRT studio display.

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  118. iMac G3 DV: 400MHz, 512MB RAM, 10GB HDD 7k2rpm, Tiger;
    iMac G4: 1,25 GHz, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD 7k2rpm, 17″, Tiger;
    PowerMac G5: dual 2Ghz, 4GB RAM, 1,5TB HDD 7k2rpm, Tiger and Leopard ( Way faster than my MacBookPro 13″ Intel i7 2,9GHz quad, 8GB RAM, 750GB HDD 7k2rpm, Mountian Lion);

    iMac G3, iMac G4 and PowerMac G5, those were, are and will allways be great machines. The iMacs have allready passed ten years and i am sure they will pass another ten.
    I think, everything that makes a Mac more like a PC is a mistake, so Intel processors are a huge mistake.

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  119. i just got back to PPC with a cherry 14in ibook G4 1.42ghz 1.5gb ram 60gb drive and ati 9550 32mb card running 10.5.8….. is way more fun to use than my intel 13in mbp and gets far better battery life than the mbp. i love PPC because it works great thank you for the website

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