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what is good to do with a used old Power Mac G4 that someone is giving away?
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<blockquote data-quote="janusoo" data-source="post: 826662" data-attributes="member: 64569"><p>You can probably do a lot more with a G4 than just run a web browser, just maybe not with the most up-to-date software. People were doing video editing and such with G3's and even prior PowerPC processors before that. I have a couple G4's that still do video streaming reasonably well.</p><p></p><p>You can probably find older versions of excellent software for whatever you're thinking of doing with it on eBay or one of the plentiful older Mac retail sites you can find on the web.</p><p></p><p>And yeah, you would definitely have no trouble running it up to OS 10.4 (Tiger). 10.5 (Leopard) may work alright, too, but would be slow as the other posters said, methinks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="janusoo, post: 826662, member: 64569"] You can probably do a lot more with a G4 than just run a web browser, just maybe not with the most up-to-date software. People were doing video editing and such with G3's and even prior PowerPC processors before that. I have a couple G4's that still do video streaming reasonably well. You can probably find older versions of excellent software for whatever you're thinking of doing with it on eBay or one of the plentiful older Mac retail sites you can find on the web. And yeah, you would definitely have no trouble running it up to OS 10.4 (Tiger). 10.5 (Leopard) may work alright, too, but would be slow as the other posters said, methinks. [/QUOTE]
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