What Kaabii said. They look cool, but there's not a lot of value to them. The [del]G4[/del] G5 towers are worth a bit, but that's more because they're just big hunks of aluminum*.
Still yet, if it's your style, you could do a really cool ATX conversion. Maybe make it into some sort of HTPC. It's your call.
* Before anyone calls me out on this, I'm WRONG. That's the dark grey acrylic case. The PowerMac G5 tower is made of aluminum. I've made the changes accordingly.
Anything cool stuff I should do with it? I wanna play old games on it
so apparently a jailbreak for 7.1.1 was released today by a Chinese group
[url]http://pangu.io/[/url]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/CBtzQNv.png[/img]
I'm running it on my test iPad and it seems fine so far. I followed the steps on a reddit thread to ensure I didn't get any malicious software.
[QUOTE=Original User;45196623]Anything cool stuff I should do with it? I wanna play old games on it[/QUOTE]
It's really going to struggle with most games that came out around then... 350mhz isn't exactly great these days, but it really wasn't great back then either. It was something, sure, but it's no Pentium II with a 3dfx Voodoo2 and Sound Blaster.
Fun fact: the first videogame I ever played, one of the Reader Rabbit games, was on a Mac G4 cube. My grandfather still has the same cube. I need to go pick it up one day.
EDIT: Again, completely wrong. Apparently, the old PowerMacs are good at something. Who knew?
[QUOTE=woolio1;45198718]It's really going to struggle with most games that came out around then... 350mhz isn't exactly great these days, but it really wasn't great back then either. It was something, sure, but it's no Pentium II with a 3dfx Voodoo2 and Sound Blaster.
Fun fact: the first videogame I ever played, one of the Reader Rabbit games, was on a Mac G4 cube. My grandfather still has the same cube. I need to go pick it up one day.[/QUOTE]
Do we really need to go over the megahertz myth again? The PowerPC machines didn't have high clockspeeds because they were very efficient. a 450mhz G3 had been proven to be competitive with 1ghz+ pentiums in photoshop and general use tests. The PowerMac G3's were perfectly capable of running Mac games that came out around that time.
The ppc macs are good for older games dude! Cro mag rally, nanosaur, bugdom, MDK, Myst series (at least it runs natively), riddle of the sphinx.
those are all games that I wish I could still play, but I don't have a ppc machine anywhere to be found. make sure you install classic on it if you're keeping 10.x
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;45198973]Do we really need to go over the megahertz myth again? The PowerPC machines didn't have high clockspeeds because they were very efficient. a 450mhz G3 had been proven to be competitive with 1ghz+ pentiums in photoshop and general use tests. The PowerMac G3's were perfectly capable of running Mac games that came out around that time.[/QUOTE]
I was actually unaware of this. The more you know, I guess. I'll revise the post later.
I wonder if that's why Microsoft moved to PPC for the Xbox 360? Maybe desktop processors weren't powerful enough at the price point they were looking for back then? That's just baseless posturing, I guess.
Anything else besides old games then?
[url=http://www.anandtech.com/show/8218/apple-updates-16gb-ipod-touch-with-color-options-and-rearfacing-camera]Apple finally made the 16GB touch as good as the more expensive models.[/url]
Also when you go 32GB to 64GB you only pay $50. Someone in the comments said that's still "highway robbery" but you'll pay $35 for a class 10 32GB SD card and it'll still be way slower and less reliable than internal NAND.
Would it be against Apple's EULA or against the law if I installed OSX 10.9 in a virtual machine on an unsupported mac?
[QUOTE=buster925;45222323]Would it be against Apple's EULA or against the law if I installed OSX 10.9 in a virtual machine on an unsupported mac?[/QUOTE]
That's an odd circumstance. It might be against their EULA but Apple doesn't even go after consumer hackintoshers so you're fine, EULAs don't mean much anyway.
[QUOTE=Kaabii;45222510]That's an odd circumstance. It might be against their EULA but Apple doesn't even go after consumer hackintoshers so you're fine, EULAs don't mean much anyway.[/QUOTE]
Thanks, I read up on it a little more and I found out that as long as the host is running on an Apple machine you should be good.
Also, how would I download a copy of Mavericks because the app store says my computer is too old. Would it be pirating even though OSX 10.9 is free?
[QUOTE=buster925;45222564]Thanks, I read up on it a little more and I found out that as long as the host is running on an Apple machine you should be good.
Also, how would I download a copy of Mavericks because the app store says my computer is too old. Would it be pirating even though OSX 10.9 is free?[/QUOTE]
Quick, is the "We don't talk about wares" rule still in place?
[QUOTE=woolio1;45223183]Quick, is the "We don't talk about wares" rule still in place?[/QUOTE]
Would it be wares if it's free though?
[editline]26th June 2014[/editline]
But that rule is still in place I think.
[QUOTE=buster925;45223212]Would it be wares if it's free though?
[editline]26th June 2014[/editline]
But that rule is still in place I think.[/QUOTE]
Then yes, it would be piracy. And piracy is bad, mmmkay?
[QUOTE=woolio1;45223277]Then yes, it would be piracy. And piracy is bad, mmmkay?[/QUOTE]
Alright thanks for clarifying, I'll just have to find a Mac that can download it then.
Discussing hackintosh is okay, but I imagine posting links to OS X installers is not okay.
With the sale of my desktop I was hoping I could depend on the internal rMBP mics for Skype and Ventrilo during gaming sessions. I launched COD4:MW earlier and when the fans kicked in so did the complaints about background noise and loss of quality. How do you guys make do? The cheapo Logitech USB mic I use doesn't pick it up as much but its an extra thing to carry around.
[QUOTE=Ezhik;45223515]Discussing hackintosh is okay, but I imagine posting links to OS X installers is not okay.[/QUOTE]
I've been temped for talking about that stuff before, although it was mostly inadvertent. I just try to stay away from it these days.
OSX is free so I highly doubt you can get banned for "pirating" freeware
FP doesn't ban users for admitting that they broke an EULA
I wish there was a version of xcode I could make ios 7 apps with on snow leopard.
warez bans consist of people who brag, outright boast and advertise the fact that they [I]illegally[/I] obtain content that they have not otherwise paid for and or linked other users
discussing hackintosh is OK.
The few days I stop checking r/jailbreak and there is a 7.1.1 jailbreak, typical
Oh well, gonna backup and JB my 5s tonight, need that swipeselection
If I bought Mountain Lion from apple and received a code for it from the app store, would I be able to download it so I could put it on a mac I have that cannot get on the internet or would the app store tell me I can't because I'm not supported even though I bought it?
Thank god for jailbreak. I immediately skinned my phone massively and tweaked a huge amount of settings the day I discovered that a 7.1.1 JB was out. If anyone recalls my earlier post, I had bought a phone that was on 7.0.4, but I was forced to update after the jailbreak went wrong. Finally, my phone is jailbreakable again.
Tell me guys: does my phone look ugly as hell? Or nice? I think it looks nice, and I know that's all that matters, but I'm wondering what kinds of design sins I have committed with that battery, that status bar, and those icons with that wallpaper choice.
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/qcQpO72.png[/thumb]
just puked a little
Icons of differing sizes is why I still can't stand Android homescreens and launchers. I think getting rid of the standardized icons in iOS is the biggest of design sins you can commit when jailbreaking.
[QUOTE=ihatecompvir;45243945]Thank god for jailbreak. I immediately skinned my phone massively and tweaked a huge amount of settings the day I discovered that a 7.1.1 JB was out. If anyone recalls my earlier post, I had bought a phone that was on 7.0.4, but I was forced to update after the jailbreak went wrong. Finally, my phone is jailbreakable again.
Tell me guys: does my phone look ugly as hell? Or nice? I think it looks nice, and I know that's all that matters, but I'm wondering what kinds of design sins I have committed with that battery, that status bar, and those icons with that wallpaper choice.
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/qcQpO72.png[/thumb][/QUOTE]
looks like an alpha meego or tizen screenshot
[QUOTE=ihatecompvir;45243945]Thank god for jailbreak. I immediately skinned my phone massively and tweaked a huge amount of settings the day I discovered that a 7.1.1 JB was out. If anyone recalls my earlier post, I had bought a phone that was on 7.0.4, but I was forced to update after the jailbreak went wrong. Finally, my phone is jailbreakable again.
Tell me guys: does my phone look ugly as hell? Or nice? I think it looks nice, and I know that's all that matters, but I'm wondering what kinds of design sins I have committed with that battery, that status bar, and those icons with that wallpaper choice.
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/qcQpO72.png[/thumb][/QUOTE]
Looks bad, sorry. With all the new features that Apple now puts on iOS, I myself don't find the need to jailbreak.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.