Yeah Ricardo, but man those would make nice boxes to run Ubutu on. :) I have an old G5 I am picking up from my parents since they really did not make use of it and there are my plans for it. I thought it would be interesting to see if I could connect iOS devices to it.
On Jun 6, 2012, at 2:15 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I mean, its free, and you can't really knock free but, you won't be able to > run the latest operating system on there, and you will be using the first > version of Voiceover which was pretty bare bones. I believe those are Power > PC Macs, not Intel's so, you would only be able to upgrade to Leopard OSX > 10.5 if I'm not mistaken. Honestly, as a voiceover user, I wouldn't bother. > The experience with voiceover is really nothing like what you would have now > running Lion 10.7. And with that antiquated hardware, I'm not sure how > productive you could even be. I think it would just cheapen the Mac > experience if you've never used a Mac before. Better off find a refurbished > 2010 or 2011 Mac mini. > > JMO. > > Ricardo Walker > [email protected] > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On Jun 6, 2012, at 12:11 AM, RDLAW <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Someone on freecycle is giving away the following: >> 2 Apple Power Macintoshes (no monitors included) Mac OSX-10.4 Tiger >> Operating system on both: >> >> First Computer is a Power Macintosh G4/400 with 2 Gigabytes Ram, 40 >> Gigabytes boot drive, 30 Gigabytes files drive, Firewire 800PCI card, and >> gigabit ethernet PCI card. >> >> Second Computer is a Power Macintosh G4/Dual 500 with 1.75 Gigabytes of Ram, >> 20 Gigabytes boot drive, and 30 Gigabytes files drive. >> Is this worth going after? >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
