Sitting here with my old PowerPC G4 but what to do with it.

[sastusbulbas]

Sitting here with my old PowerPC G4, but what to do with it these days.

It's been sitting in the bottom of the cupboard for years unused, booted up fine, quite funny seeing it run, I had previously cleaned the drives out, it has no software apart from my Tiger OSX 10.4.11 install, 1 of a family pack of 5 lol, and Virtual PC with Windows XP, jeez that Virtual PC runs so slow on this.

Still love that clam shell design, how it opens out and is so easy to work inside.

Dual 450Mhz processors, 4x256mb of PC-100 ram, ATI Radeon 9200 PCI graphics card with 128mb of memory, Hitachi DVD ROM, 75gb OS IDE hard drive, 120gb storage IDE hard drive, dual usb on a pci card.
I even have the box for that ATI 9200, plus the Apple and Vrtual PC-XP retail software, and spare memory, original GPU, couple of lower capacity IDE's too.

Can't really see a reason for keeping this sadly. Though it boots up quick there is no support, java etc.
But it was nice to have it on and browse the web, with no flash. Wife is looking at it in that manner they do, but this thing was gonna let me do one thing before it's consigned, sadly the only thing I could think of was a post within Overclockers haha.

So some of you guys must get in similar situations, holding on to old Apple hardware, do you ever find a use for it or is it out with the old and in with the new?

 

[Caged]

Bung it on eBay and get £50 for it. It's no good for actually using as a computer. Even if you wanted something to be an iTunes server there are a million other better suited, smaller, lower powered devices for that task.

 

[slinxy]

I was going to suggest xbox dev machine... But the specs are far to low.

 

[ginger_pat]

If I was in your shoes i'd load it full of music and have it as a dedicated music source plus it in to a hi-fi or some speakers and it'll be a dream.
It's a beautiful machine no point flogging it for £50 sake, definitely a keeper but maybe i'm just a hoarder.

 

[lamboman]

If I was in your shoes i'd load it full of music and have it as a dedicated music source plus it in to a hi-fi or some speakers and it'll be a dream.
It's a beautiful machine no point flogging it for £50 sake, definitely a keeper but maybe i'm just a hoarder.

It's not a Cube, just a standard PowerMac G4. So it'll be noisy, slow, have little space, and fairly poor audio output quality compared to the majority of modern stuff.

I'd sell it or keep it as a piece of history (though it's not a significant machine like an iMac G3 or G4, TAM, Cube etc).