that is an idea. Would I only need to place the UBuntu disk in the drive
the same as I would a standard pc?
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From: "Scott Howell" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 03:33
Subject: Re: free macs
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?
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