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Purchased a Power Mac G4 Graphite AGP Model to Refurb with my son - Looking for Suggestions
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<blockquote data-quote="Horsa" data-source="post: 1922702" data-attributes="member: 403905"><p>Hi zincmann and welcome!</p><p></p><p>I used to have one of these lovely beasts - the exact same model you've acquired. I upgraded mine with a Sonnet dual processor card. They were great machines for their day, but as Nick says, they simply won't cope with the modern internet, nor will the OS be secure against present day security threats. If you just want to have some fun getting it to boot into an old version of OSX, though, good luck with it. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>When I retired mine in 2010, I moved on to a 2008 Mac Pro ...which I'm still using! I'm hoping to squeeze a few more years out of that machine before I am forced to go down the Apple Silicon system-on-a-chip route.</p><p></p><p>BTW, on a point of detail: the Mac Pro machines are Intel-based, not G5. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horsa, post: 1922702, member: 403905"] Hi zincmann and welcome! I used to have one of these lovely beasts - the exact same model you've acquired. I upgraded mine with a Sonnet dual processor card. They were great machines for their day, but as Nick says, they simply won't cope with the modern internet, nor will the OS be secure against present day security threats. If you just want to have some fun getting it to boot into an old version of OSX, though, good luck with it. :) When I retired mine in 2010, I moved on to a 2008 Mac Pro ...which I'm still using! I'm hoping to squeeze a few more years out of that machine before I am forced to go down the Apple Silicon system-on-a-chip route. BTW, on a point of detail: the Mac Pro machines are Intel-based, not G5. ;) [/QUOTE]
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