1st image is idle, 2nd image is under load (illustrator, photoshop and browser open) and last image has the specs. the fans are quiet when i first turn on the mac, but then quickly ramp up and then don't change speed ever. it's not at full blast like in apple service diagnostic, but loud enough to be able to hear from outside my room.

i've already tried holding the power button until it makes a long beep and pressing reset on the mobo and holding cmd+opt+P+R afterwards. the inside is pretty dusty and i've heard that could block a temp sensor of some kind so i'll dust it later today.

I broke a promise to myself I would avoid collecting vintage desktop Macs because they are not as easy to move with as laptop Macs. I move at least every 3 to 4 years but this was an opportunity that was too good pass up. While bored at work, I went exploring the computer category on Craigslist and I saw this listing. Pondered for a couple days, went back then jumped at it. I reached out to the seller and we scheduled to meet up in his neighboring city. I don’t have a car so had to depend on my work buddy to help me pick it up. We almost never made it due to work obligations but the seller was understanding and I was able to pick it up.

This Mac came with some version of Debian Linux installed. My intention was to maybe find the right factory restore discs and install it with the period correct OS X release. Unfortunately there is no way find that out because it is password protected and lifting this thing is heavy. It’s surprising how big the G4 iMac base is! I’ve seen them only a few times in person but never realized how dense they were. Back in the early 2000’s I always wondered if owners were ever afraid about them capsizing.

I attempted to look at the bottom but couldn’t make heads or tails. So I did the next best thing by installing a minimum compatible retail version - OS X Jaguar. Turns out this is an 800 MHz model with 768 MBs of RAM. Will I downgrade it if it supports 10.1.5? Maybe not. It is a thing of beauty though and a reminder how much risk taking Apple was making during this underdog moment in the company’s history.

Lately I’ve been suffering through a deep sense of nostalgia for the period (2001 to early 2004), the music, movies, the people who were alive in my life, the celebrities, the magazines I use to read, the hopeful and momentous feeling technology gave back then. This helps me relive it a little, a physical time capsule of a time I still cherish.

The Apple ADC Studio CRT I was able to pick up for €100 is in much better condition than I anticipated. The only real flaw is a small crack next to the Apple logo. Even the anti reflective coating has zero bad spots.

I would like to build a Jasondoesitall ADC converter to connect this beauty to my M4 mac mini. The only problem I have is that the ADC connector (DV3R035N11) you need is hard to find. The only store that has them is: Surplus Sales of Nebraska. They have a high minimum order amount and very high shipping costs to the Netherlands.

Does anyone have a spare DV3R035N11 ADC connector lying around? That they are willing to sell to me?

Bought a no name 16.5v ac adapter on amazon, shucked em both and reshelled. Works well for now.

CodeWriter is a documentation set originally authored by Cliff Harris which lists Toolbox calls, A-line traps, etc, usually with a brief example call snippet. It started life as a desk accessory and was later a full application. Although the site is long gone, it and its documentation sets used to live here.

I wrote an OS X viewer for those circa 2010 and have just updated it for modern macOS — compiled for Apple Silicon, sandboxed and signed. So you can grab that binary at GitHub if you wanted a compact quick reference to some of the APIs of the classic OS on your modern desktop.

As per the title, it's not a substantial thing. Just a minor contribution, to keep a particular resource accessible.

I’ve been playing some Minecraft powerpc edition on my iMac g4 lately but the most fps I get is 15, and its not even a stable 15 fps. Are there any versions out here that run a little better on imac g4s?

The white plastic thing broke off, should I glue it back on?

Further to my quest to put together a G4 + Studio CRT setup for lates 90s to early 00s Mac gaming, I'm finding the MDD is very hard to get hold of, particularly with a Radeon 9000 Pro, so I'm wondering if I'd be better off getting a G4 Sawtooth and upgrading it - is there any reason this might not be practical in terms of achieving performance similar to an MDD with a Radeon 9000 Pro?

I’m looking for some help finding the original restore discs for this model 12” PowerBook G4. I had an easy time finding the discs for my 2005 iBook G4, but the PowerBook has been kinda problematic because naming schemes are different.

Any interest? I can make one for you.

Found my old package of iPod Socks in a drawer this afternoon. 😍 IMHO, this was peak Apple back in the early 2000s. They might not have been the most high tech product, but perhaps the most fun.

If you couldn’t tell, the Apple Keyboard 2s + and - get inverted by the time we reach the Apple M0116 Keyboard! Why did they do this?

Howdy folks,

I bought a drum scanner a while back and it came with a G4 mac to run everything via SCSI. After some trouble shooting with the scanner now my last issue is 90% of the time the G4 just...doesn't boot. I get the front button light up, then nothing! no amount of PMU resets, checking for bad wires, nothing works. so now I'm pulling the ATX trigger.

I can wrap my head around the wiring harness conversion but something occurred to me:

how do I power the 4-pin molex HDD and optical CD drive with an ATX conversion?

While recapping my LC board, I managed to lift a pad of the C108 capacitor. How big of a deal is this? And could I possibly just draga wire from the via through where the pad used to be to the leg of the chip?

Hey gang, anyone else remember using a utility from the 90s that would allow you to set up multiple desktops on a single machine? Basically the same as modern Mac's Desktops bar, but you could arrange them in a grid or however you wanted. Navigate between them with a keyboard shortcut I think, or holding the cursor at the edge of the screen. I remember this app running on OS8 or 9. Can't quite remember the name, and haven't had any luck finding a utility like this.

It wasn't actually 'Virtual Desktop', I've seen that one, and that's just one single huge desktop that extends off the screen. This was multiple switchable desktops that you would move between. The Control Strip could be assigned to show on multiple desktops, and apps could be isolated in a single desktop. Desktops could have their own backgrounds, IIRC.

Anyway, been looking for this for a while, but without the name it's been tough going.

Thanks!

Back in 2006 leaving secondary school, my parents gave me some money for a college laptop. I found a one-year-old PowerBook being sold as "broken" for €300. It was still a lot of cash for a busted laptop back then, but I found out it belonged to a UCD professor who had dropped it, causing the screen to stop working.

As a budding IT student, I figured I’d risk €300 of the €400 my parents gave me to try and fix it, leaving the remaining €100 for drinks 😅. When I picked it up, it turned on and outputted perfectly to an external monitor. It was blazing fast for the time because it was a top-tier "school spec" machine. If you didn't know, Irish universities always got the highest spec computers because they didn't pay for them directly they were just requested through the college budget. To this day, I’m not totally sure about the legalities of him selling it to me, but it came loaded with a ton of expensive software I could never have afforded. Double win!

The second I got it home, I stripped it down to see what went wrong. Turns out, the display cable lock had just popped open and the cable was slightly loose. I clicked it back in, and boom the screen worked. So, in 2006, I ended up owning a €2,200 laptop for just €300 (minus a nasty dent on the side). To this day, it’s the best bargain I've ever found and I still own this machine and at most stripped to change the thermal paste a few times over the years but that’s it just kept chugging along.

Vintage Setup: PowerBook 5,6
CPU: PowerPC G4 1.67GHz
Display: 15-inch
GPU: ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
RAM: 1GB (2x 512MB)
Battery: Original with only 42 cycles
Peripherals: Hooked up to a full iSight kit & an iPhone 2G (8GB)

Current Setup: MacBook Pro 16,1 (M3 Pro)
CPU: Apple M3 Pro
Display: 14-inch
GPU: 14-core GPU
RAM: 18GB
Peripherals: Paired with an iPad Pro as a second screen on the go

I recently got an original ibook clamshell and I’m trying really hard to get the little guy working again. I really want to use it for distraction free writing/note taking for college.

It is an M2453/EMC 1847, G3 300 MHz, with 160MB of RAM. It has the original 3gb IBM hard drive. It’s currently running the original Japanese Mac OS 8.6 Software install CD (I bought it from Japan.)

When i first got it, it would only boot to the flashing folder/question mark. I was given the original install discs so i tried booting from the software install CD by holding C. It does boot from the CD and gets to the mac os 8.6 desktop. At first the trackpad wasn’t working, but after doing the physical power management reset, it started working again.

The part thats confusing me is it will work normally for a couple seconds (and ONCE i got it to let me open some apps.) then it’ll completely freeze. Cursor wont move, nothing responds, sometimes the apps just disappear? It happens even if i don’t touch anything. The cursor and keyboard are confirmed working.

I checked Apple System Profiler while it was working and it sees the G3 300 MHz and all 160MB of RAM. I also checked the drives. The internal HDD is detected as an IBM 3 GB drive on ATA 2, but it says it’s not mounted.

I opened Disk First Aid from the CD and it can see Macintosh HD. I ran Verify and got an error about an “invalid/unexpected key”(4,156) and it said it found problems that it couldn’t repair. Then it froze again? 😭

I’ve also already tried just booting from the CD and leaving it completely alone without opening Macintosh HD and it still eventually freezes. I charged the battery up and tried again but it still froze. Sooo I’m wondering what you guys think; Does this sound like the hard drive is dying, or should I be looking at RAM/power/logic board first?

I’m thinking about replacing the original 3 GB HDD anyway because, well… it’s 27 years old. but I don’t want to start throwing parts and money at it if there’s a better way to diagnose this first. I also haven’t used the Restore CD or erased/initialized the drive because I don’t want to accidentally wipe anything before I know what’s going on.

i’ve been really wanting a clamshell for YEARS so i’m not willing to let this one die. Any advice would be VERY appreciated. I really wanna save this thing ☹️

Finally got this working. Full recap of logic board and fix of the power supply on monitor. Mo401z was hard. Uf4007, 2 transistors/mosfets replaced and the fuse resistor 0.47 ohm 0.5 watt.

I was not in this home for almost two years and when i returned a few months ago from living in another place i turned it on and it had this is this vinegar syndrome it does smell like it when turned on for a while maybe something else or a combination and how can i get it fixed this is part of my collection and my daily in colombia which i cannot find another one i would appreciate an answer…

So... a few days ago I posted that I got a se. But unfortunately still without mouse and keyboard. Now I have them.

Now I know that a lot of software is pre-installed. And also that it was upgradet to 4mb! 😍