Hello, On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 10:00:49 -0700 Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Aug 4, 2019, at 9:29 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Yeah, I look to forward to playing with it :-). > > > > I have a few of them, there are a few quirks you may run into. If you > > have questions don't hesitate to ask! > > Make sure you have a good, strong putty knife. Or something equivalent, and several of them. I opened one of mine with a bunch of hair pins, which wasn't fun. Trust me, if your Mini doesn't come with 1GB of RAM, you *will* want to upgrade it ( pretty much any PC2700 or 3200 DDR1 1GB DIMM will do, they can be found for about $20 or less on ebay ). For a small macppc box they can be surprisingly speedy - a 1.5GHz 7447 is nothing to sneeze at ( of course there are faster 32bit macs available, but they're also much more expensive ) - but modern compilers like gcc 7 or clang will eat up a lot of memory, like up to 1GB per compiler instance. Same with the internal disk - IIRC the biggest disk Apple ever shipped in a G4 Mini was 80GB, and the lower end models had 40GB ones. There are bigger and faster options available for not much money. have fun Michael
