Re: New (to me, of course) iBook G4. A few questions.

[Bruce Johnson]

On Feb 1, 2017, at 3:50 PM, Mike K. 
> wrote:


Didn't the G5s use SATA?  Or did I imagine that?  I know more about the G4s 
than the G5s by quite a long shot, so I'm possibly mistaken.

Yes, upon some googling they did.  I've worked on so few of them and it was so 
long ago that I forgot.


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Re: New (to me, of course) iBook G4. A few questions.

[Bruce Johnson]

On Jan 31, 2017, at 8:35 AM, Michael Moreau 
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5. This little laptop will mostly be for me when I'm writing, or for my 
daughter to do some basic web browsing for school as we've already got tons of 
other computers, phones, tablets, etc... Any other suggestions though to make 
this thing as speedy and enjoyable as possible?


Here's a current PPC port of firefox: 
http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ if you have at least OS X 10.4 on 
it. Classilla for earlier versions http://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/

All PowerPC macs used IDE drives, IIRC. OWC sells SSDs for them 
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/SSDMLP120/?utm_source=google_medium=shoppingengine_campaign=googlebase=CLvjkv-I7dECFQYOaQodhb0BBw
 OWC has RAM, too 
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/iBooks-PowerBooks/G4-iBook/

But that starts getting into a bunch of money for not a lot of computer...

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Re: New (to me, of course) iBook G4. A few questions.

[Charles Lenington]

On 1/31/17 9:35 AM, Michael Moreau wrote:
Hey there guys and gals. I just picked up (for $8, the price of a 
power adapter), an old iBook G4 in fairly decent condition. The 
battery still holds a 3 hour charge and it boots and works well. It's 
an 800mhz with 256mb of RAM, a standard CD-ROM drive, and a 30gb hard 
drive. This is not my first G-Series Mac, but I haven't had one for a 
LONG time. The last one I had was a blue & white G3 tower and I loved 
that thing. Even at 300mhz it was faster than the PCs I had at the 
time that were 800mhz or so.


Anyway, I'll get on with the questions:

1. Where can I look up what type of RAM this thing takes and how much 
it will accept? I want to max it out.




everymac.comor  down load Mactracker
2. I read that the battery life is supposed to be like 6.5+ hours, is 
that true? If so then I guess I'll be getting a new battery since this 
one only holds half of that.


3. Any known issues upgrading these to an SSD? I don't have any 
install discs so I'd have to clone this 30gb HD straight to a 32gb 
SSD. (Not even sure this thing is using SATA to be honest, haha!)


4. What are the best places to find software that will run on the G4 
processor? I've managed to find lots of old versions of stuff, but 
it's usually post-Intel switch.


5. This little laptop will mostly be for me when I'm writing, or for 
my daughter to do some basic web browsing for school as we've already 
got tons of other computers, phones, tablets, etc... Any other 
suggestions though to make this thing as speedy and enjoyable as possible?


Thanks!
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New (to me, of course) iBook G4. A few questions.

[Michael Moreau]

Hey there guys and gals. I just picked up (for $8, the price of a power 
adapter), an old iBook G4 in fairly decent condition. The battery still 
holds a 3 hour charge and it boots and works well. It's an 800mhz with 
256mb of RAM, a standard CD-ROM drive, and a 30gb hard drive. This is not 
my first G-Series Mac, but I haven't had one for a LONG time. The last one 
I had was a blue & white G3 tower and I loved that thing. Even at 300mhz it 
was faster than the PCs I had at the time that were 800mhz or so.

Anyway, I'll get on with the questions:

1. Where can I look up what type of RAM this thing takes and how much it 
will accept? I want to max it out.

2. I read that the battery life is supposed to be like 6.5+ hours, is that 
true? If so then I guess I'll be getting a new battery since this one only 
holds half of that.

3. Any known issues upgrading these to an SSD? I don't have any install 
discs so I'd have to clone this 30gb HD straight to a 32gb SSD. (Not even 
sure this thing is using SATA to be honest, haha!)

4. What are the best places to find software that will run on the G4 
processor? I've managed to find lots of old versions of stuff, but it's 
usually post-Intel switch.

5. This little laptop will mostly be for me when I'm writing, or for my 
daughter to do some basic web browsing for school as we've already got tons 
of other computers, phones, tablets, etc... Any other suggestions though to 
make this thing as speedy and enjoyable as possible?

Thanks!

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