When I was first getting into Apple, G4’s were the second-hand go-to. I’ll admit that I am nostalgic for a lot of the G4 era stuff.
The only PPC I’m keeping is a G4 Mini for OS 9 and general compatibility/bridging. More so when you have different input/output devices attached.Īlright. Its different for everyone.Įmulation is great, but its not the same. I guess it comes down to if you have some sort of personal attachment to said machine, be it the G5, a Sharp X68k, or a C64. Yeah you can emulate pretty much anything these days, but typing away on a PC keyboard attached to for example a MISTer/PC emu C64, no way even comes close to the tactile feeling you get from using a real C64 attached to a CRT. I also have 2 fully maxed out 1,1's, that also get zero use. Probably i "will" let the G4 towers go somewhere along the line, but ill keep the G5's at this stage. I wonder who will "collect" G5's in the future? I have a few, also a few G4 MDD's, and i have thought about getting rid of those, as i dont use them much, if at all, but what about the Amiga/X68000's and a bunch of Silicon Graphics boxes that i own, they also hardly ever get used. This would require flashing to 5,1 so I am reluctant to try and just need somebody to confirm this before I go ahead but that would almost certainly be the fastest Leopard-capable machine. Some here have speculated that I could get Leopard to boot on Westmere chips and therefor support 12-cores. I’m running Leopard on my 2.26GHz 8-core 4,1 Pro and I’d be surprised if the earlier Pro’s come close in performance.
Officially, this system was released with Snow Leopard as a minimum but it seems to have complete similarity to a Leopard-era Mac. For instance, I will be checking if I have an Nvidia 9400m in my white unibody MacBook and if so will attempt to boot 10.5. I’ve also read here that Leopard doesn’t generally check hardware and will attempt to boot and the only thing preventing it from doing so would be unsupported hardware such as the Nvidia 320m. Sorry what? I already started a thread called “Most Powerful Leopard System” and it was concluded that a max’d out 4,1 would be the official winner, though the 5,1 unofficially boots Leopard no problem.
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