Hey all
First post (so please be gentle!)
I bought a second hand Powermac G4 off ebay a few months back and I'm going to see if it can be my main machine at home.
I'm trying to identify exactly what model/release of G4 it is. Through a lot of googling and browsing these forums, I think I've narrowed it down to either a Powermac G4 (AGP), a Powermac (Gigabit Ethernet) or Powermac (Yikes!/PCI).
But I'm confused as to exactly which one it is.
It has the following specs:
G4 500mhz processor
2 Firewire ports at the rear
2 USB ports at the rear
ATI video card (the machine isn't in front of me at the moment, I think it only had a very small amount of memory).
DVDROM
10 gig hard drive
Anyone help me identify what type of G4 this baby is?
My second question is, I want to run OS X. What version is best for the older G4's? I want a brisk machine for browsing, iTuning and word processing stuff so is an older version of OS X going to be faster/better or is Tiger the best bet?
My intention is to load it up with some more RAM from an old iMac (it will be around 700mb RAM when I'm done).
Thanks in advance
First post (so please be gentle!)
I bought a second hand Powermac G4 off ebay a few months back and I'm going to see if it can be my main machine at home.
I'm trying to identify exactly what model/release of G4 it is. Through a lot of googling and browsing these forums, I think I've narrowed it down to either a Powermac G4 (AGP), a Powermac (Gigabit Ethernet) or Powermac (Yikes!/PCI).
But I'm confused as to exactly which one it is.
It has the following specs:
G4 500mhz processor
2 Firewire ports at the rear
2 USB ports at the rear
ATI video card (the machine isn't in front of me at the moment, I think it only had a very small amount of memory).
DVDROM
10 gig hard drive
Anyone help me identify what type of G4 this baby is?
My second question is, I want to run OS X. What version is best for the older G4's? I want a brisk machine for browsing, iTuning and word processing stuff so is an older version of OS X going to be faster/better or is Tiger the best bet?
My intention is to load it up with some more RAM from an old iMac (it will be around 700mb RAM when I'm done).
Thanks in advance