Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
If your like me and have never bought a new peice of Apple hardware and because of that your pounding out the very last bit of worth that is left in an upgraded Beige tower G4 (now a G4/500 thank you very much!) this is the place for you. All sorts of info on keeping you ‘old world’ Mac happy and chugging along (with Panther it’s a serious chug!)
Lets all raise our glasses in a toast to this brave brave man, he removed the hard drive in his Mac Mini and installed a 4GB microdrive and adapter as well as three LiIon batteries to give him a self powered mini! It runs for over an hour and even better, it runs Linux.
Darn neat.
Mac Mini Surgery
My Mac is of ‘Old World’ stock (Beige G3 with a G4/500MHz upgrade) so I’ll never be able to run the latest Quicktime offering but I have seen it in action. I have watched a trailer for a movie that was 115MB in size, 2 min. 24 sec. in length and 1280×544 in resolution. It used the new H.264 codec and it looked simply amazing. No banding in color gradations, the picture was always crisp and clear, there was even detail in the shadows along with what could only be film grain. If this is what HD is like I’m going to start saving my nickle and dimes for a new TV.
Looking for inspiration on your next case mod adventure? Have a urge to water cool your G4? Want to (nay, have to) add lights to your G4 to make it look like it can run fast? Have a look, this could be the place for you.
Oh yeah……
Apple today unveiled the fastest, most powerful Power Mac? G5 desktop line ever, featuring dual 64-bit PowerPC G5 processors running up to 2.7 GHz and including Mac OS? X version 10.4 “Tiger,” the world’s most advanced operating system. The new Power Mac G5 line delivers higher performance graphics options with more memory and built-in support for Apple’s breakthrough 30-inch Cinema HD Display on the 2.7 GHz model. The new line also includes larger hard drives, a faster 16X SuperDrive(TM) with double-layer support and 512MB of memory across the line.
