On Feb 19, 2010, at 11:54 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: > I have a huge collection of PowerPC computers ranging from the beige > 233Mhz G3, to the G4 power mac tower. My favorite when it comes to > performance is the G4 Graphite Power Mac. It's power, it's > upgradeable, and it runs Leopard. Tiger was released back in 2005, and > it is still widely used in 2010, so Leopard will still be a pretty > modern OS in 2012. Anyway, my favorite when it comes down to all of > them is the G4 cube. The G4 cube is sleek, cool, and it runs leopard. > I can load it up with 2GB of ram, and a 1.42Ghz Dual G4 processor. I > really want to get my hands on that G4 cube, but unfortionately, the > G4 cube is hard to come by, and i am not buying off of a site like > ebay, because i don't trust them, and the last time i bought a $50 > 32GB flash drive, they kept charging me fees and other stuff for no > reason. If anyone has a G4 cube, make sure it has a VGA port or an > adapter that somehow gets me VGA. I am offering $125 for an original > G4 cube. If it has upgrades, the upgrades must be a G4 processor and > not an upgrade card from an unknown source, and it must have high-end > specs. If possible, put in 2GB of RAM. I would most like it if the > system itself was not touched at all, (by that i mean the cpu and > basically everything but the os). If there is no os on it, i'm ok with > it, because i have install discs. > FYI 1.5 GB RAM is the max on the Cube also the only G$ upgrade cards for the Cube are aftermarket. Yes thy are nice little machines, but without one of those aftermarket cards( i would recommend Sonnet) Leo is like Peeing in the tide. Tiiger rules on the Cubes with Apple processors, the fastest is a 500MHz. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA
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