I recently purchased an ibook G4 1.33 GHz. Does anyone have any recommends for what to use it for? I enjoy it I just cannot think of a way to use it.
>in b4 run xbuntu
run debian or some ancient version of OS X
>>55329976
why the shit did you buy one if you had no idea what to do with it???
go on the macintosh garden and find some shit for it, run tiger on it instead of leopard for better compatibility
You can't run Xubuntu, it doesn't have PPC builds. If I remember correctly, Mint does so you can start there. Your other alternative is to use a horrifyingly outdated and insecure version of OSX.
All that said, it's a piece of junk and you wasted your money. I worked on squeezing more life out of iBooks a while back and there's not much you can do. At best it's going to be a subpar Chromebook that isn't powerful enough to play YouTube.
>>55330255
It can play YouTube, just not Flash
>>55330255
>horrifyingly outdated and insecure version of OSX.
There's nothing wrong with using Tiger in a non-server role, especially with TenFourFox.
>>55329976
I tried to boot with USB on the powerbook variant and it went horribly.
Hope you still have a CD burner lying around.
>>55329976
I would say install OS9 and be comfy, but you cant because its just a bit too new.
t. Powerbook G4 fag
Have some spec listings. http://apple-history.com/ibook_g4_mid_05 Yours might be the late 04 one though, they both had 1.33 ghz options.
Dualboot Leopard and OpenBSD
>>55329976
Maybe if you get a few more you could use them as a foot rest, step stool or exercise stepper. It might make a decent paper plate rest.
>>55330400
They support classic mode though
>>55330400
I thought only G5s couldn't run Mac OS 9
>>55330505
I was talking about straight up installing it, some stuff doesnt play nicely with classic mode.
>>55330505
>>55330531
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_9#Compatibility
Not for the 1.33 model it appears. Classic only.
>>55330288
Nope. It can technically show a YouTube video via HTML5, but not at a watchable framerate. Even 360p videos will be slideshows.
>>55329976
here's some general advice
1. don't install Leopard. 2 slow.
2. TenFourFox
3. pure-mac.com has a lot of older Mac software.
4. if you want to try something interesting, try MorphOS
>>55330748
PPC Macs past around the 1 GHz mark can handle 360p just fine, probably 720 too if you pipe it through to an external media player.
There's some guy around here who dailies a 1.42 GHz PowerBook and has no problem handling YouTube either.
bump for non gpu thread
yyy
>>55330748
You just need to use a video player for playing videos. VLC still officially supports PowerPC OS X so I just use that but I'm sure you can install mpv and others via Tigerbrew or just compiling from source
>>55331017
I'd still be rocking my 1.5GHz PowerBook if the battery wasn't kill. I do use a dp 2GHz PowerMac G5 daily and a 1.25GHz eMac regularly
>>55329976
>i purchased an old laptop. what should i do with it?
congratulate yourself on your pointless purchase, i guess.
>>55330288
my main laptop was a g4 titanium for a while, it couldn't play youtube in browser, but if I entered the URL's into this player I don't remember the name of, they played fine.
>>55331415
How's the eMac? I'm thinking of beheading my fucked up 1 GHz iMac, dualbooting Tiger and OpenBSD on it and using it as my primary *nix box
captcha related
>>55329976
Play old Mac games through Classic mode
Warcraft I/II, Starcraft I, Diablo I/II, Marathon, Myth, and tons of others should play like a charm
>>55331969
I really like it. I love the iMac G3 being a CRT AIO but with the eMac it's high enough res to play HD content and still 4:3 so my older media works well too, plus the G4e CPU is a nice spec bump over my iMac's 500MHz G3
I mainly use it as a bedside HTPC
23 replies and not one correct answer
>/g/ I am ashamed
>install gentoo
>>55332029
>tfw my eMac died while in storage
Might do what this german dude did and make it a niceish AIO low end gayming pc.
https://og3r.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/emac-hackintosh-projekt-phase-3-pc-gehause-symbiose/
MacOS Sierra
>>55332056
At least you're using a dead one. I can't stand seeing dumbasses decommission PowerPC hardware
I bought mine from a government institution last year. It's funny though, the only thing that was installed was Pro Skater
>>55332076
0/10
>ibook g4
>not a 2002 imac
baka
>>55332098
>tfw no desk space for that glorious machine
Mine's just sitting in a closet somewhere waiting for me to move
>>55331415
Yeah, it can play 360p in an external player, but that's besides the point. It will struggle with 480p and simply can't do 720p.
I don't see the point when even the shittiest bootleg tablet will perform better.
My original intention was to install tor on it to access the dark web. But the older release of tor I used to install with 10.8.5 I couldn't get to launch.
>>55332166
Dumbass, I'm speaking from experience, you're speaking from speculation. 480p works fine and I haven't tried 720p content as I've yet to upgrade my PowerBook's screen to a resolution where 720p would make sense
>>55329976
shitposting terminal mainly
use 10.4, install OS9 in classic
kind of want to pick up an old iBook G4 for this exact purpose
used to have a G3, the super unreliable white one (mine lasted ages, but my brother's wife probably got it repaired before he gave it to me, had a nonstandard 192MB of RAM in it, too -- ran 10.4 a bit slowly, but well enough to use)
>>55332187
You could just play the 720p content as a test..
>>55332229
I doubt that'd go well. Mine's running OpenBSD with no GPU driver
>>55332098
I have the flagship 2002 model (+ 4 others)
The design is very nice, functionally and aesthetically, the adjustable arm is fucking genius and makes it very easy to comfortably position the display wherever you need it. Performance-wise, it's not spectacular, PC133 SDRAM wasn't a totally retarded decision at the time but in hindsight, what in the fuck were they thinking?
At least they're built like fucking tanks, I just kicked one off of a table by accident the other day and it fell on the wooden floor of my storage shed panel-first, not a scratch on it and booted just fine.
>>55332187
No, it's not speculation. I personally installed Mint PPC on an iBooks G4 and it wasn't able to run shit because hardware acceleration doesn't work. You can run Tiger and you may be able to squeeze more performance out of it, but that's not worth it at all unless you are ultrapoorfag.
>>55332295
Why would you run anything but OpenBSD or OS X?
>Tiger's not worth it
Confirmed clueless
>>55332309
What are you using a GPS driverless OpenBSD install for that a shitty $10 rPi clone couldn't do better?
And yeah, Tiger is shit. Hope you don't leave the house with your laptop because its got unpatched arbitrary remote code execution exploits
>>55332352
>What are you using a GPS driverless OpenBSD install for that a shitty $10 rPi clone couldn't do better?
A PowerPC laptop.
>Tiger is shit
Again, confirmed clueless. Besides, Leopard is also an option.
>exploits
Anything remotely sensitive is done in OpenBSD.
>>55332352
why would anybody be actively targeting holes in an OS released over a decade ago that makes up 0.001% of the OS X userbase on a good day? It's not like targeting XP or something where you'll still catch huge numbers of old codgers and poorfags
>>55329976
oh am I laffin
>>55332352
>oh shit I've run out of valid arguments
>MUHHHHHHHHHHHH EXPLOITS
learn to use a firewall, learn to disable unnecessary or potentially compromised services, basically, learn to use a computer, and you'll be fine
unless you've really pissed somebody off, nobody's going to be sitting on their ass autistically crafting special websites and packets just to attack an obscure exploit that applies to literally less than a quarter of a percent of the world's networked systems
>>55329976
>Does anyone have any recommends for what to use it for?
>>55332513
ebin
>>55329976
>G4
Use as a terrorism weapon.
>>55332374
I wanted concrete examples of what you're using it for. You're awfully evasive for someone so sure of their self.
>>55332537
>browsing the web
>programming
>some here and there Sim City
That's about it
>>55332531
that's a macbook you dumb /v/edditor
>>55332550
>mactard
>calls someone else a /r/edditor
ok kid
>>55332399
>>55332419
Security through obscurity is stupid and you should feel bad for relying on it. It just takes one bored Chinaman to target it.
>>55332546
Are you browsing the Web in your frame buffer or something? You said you had no GPU driver
>>55332550
>le epik macs suck maymay
Spotted the twelve year old
>>55332581
>Are you browsing the Web in your frame buffer or something? You said you had no GPU driver
Using the software rasterizer
>>55332582
>le epik macs r awsum maymay
Spotted the twelve year old
>>55332617
Why don't you go shit up one of the 40+ GPU threads plaguing the board? It's not too often we get a thread about PowerPC hardware.
use it as a wheel chock for your 1995 honda civic wagon with a broken e-brake.
>>55332581
>b-but that's bad practice!
>moving the goalposts again
don't really give a fuck, I was never trying to claim it was secure in the first place, I was just calling out your dumbshit apocalyptic FUD
besides, your "bored chinaman" scenario is so improbable in the first place, and can be pretty easily avoided not only by once again firewalling your shit and using common sense on the internet but also blocking scripts and user agent spoofing
the majority of security breaches are user-authorized in one way or another, stop grasping at straws and trying to act like a security expert regurgitating FUD from clickbait sites and wiki pages, the funny thing is that I bet half of you shitters are swiss cheese yourselves anyway and haven't even taken basic security precautions like disabling unused services, or even worse, you're wintards
>>55332639
Why don't you go shit up one of the 40+ Applel circlejerk sites plaguing the internet? It's not too often we get a tech board.
>>55332750
Oh it's the guy that can't do anything but spout ancient memes and repost his opponent's arguments
>>55332758
stop replying to that dumbshit and he'll stop posting dumber and dumber shit every time
he's probably just angry because nobody replies to his blogs in the /v/eddit threads and this is the only way he can get attention
>>55332780
I run into the faggot at least once a day, I just get him to reply enough where he's obviously a fucking moron then let him sit there praying for another (You)
>>55332734
Moving the goalposts? For someone straw Manning that hard you're not one to claim fallacies.
I actually take security seriously. If you're willing to run an ancient times, unpatched OS, have fun. But you're an idiot. Of course, you most likely don't actually leave the house or do anything important on your iBook
@55332809
"I'm so dumb I've run out of shitposts" - the post
>>55332824
>Of course, you most likely don't actually leave the house or do anything important on your iBook
Nice projecting
>>55332846
The opposite. I actually need modern equipment because I don't have time to deal with a shitty slow iBook that can barely browse the Web.
And you didn't deny it.
>>55332890
Didn't deny what? I'm not the guy you're arguing with. I'm just pointing out you're a dumbass.
>shitty slow iBook that can barely browse the web
It works perfectly fine though.
>>55332846
>do anything important
>on an Apple fashion accessory
Pick one.
>>55332919
epik
>>55332824
>Moving the goalposts?
recap:
>hope you don't do anything on that bro there's exploits you're gonna get owned!
>here's some ways you can protect yourself from those exploits, provided anyone even gives enough of a shit to exploit them
>security through obscurity! bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> For someone straw Manning that hard you're not one to claim fallacies.
where? "I bet you're a hypocrite" is not a strawman, nor the central point of my post, even if this claim is fallacious, my argument doesn't budge because it doesn't hinge on it
>I actually take security seriously. If you're willing to run an ancient times, unpatched OS, have fun. But you're an idiot.
and yet you still have given us nothing to back up your shit FUD other than "well everyone knows that!" because you have no idea what you're talking about
>Of course, you most likely don't actually leave the house or do anything important on your iBook
you whine about alleged strawmanning and then start flinging ad hominems and projecting, how cute
>>55332926
>epik
ebin
>>55332948
You still didn't deny it.
>>55332980
deny what? what are you even talking about?
>>55333007
Maybe you shod actually read posts before you let loose on your autism filled talents.
Well, doesn't matter enjoy your shitty ancient hardware running an insecure OS that barely functions that you only use and rationalize because you cant afford something better
>>55333071
Can you do anything but project bullshit? Holy shit you're fucking pathetic.
>>55333098
Still didn't deny it.
And it's all the truth. There's no other reason you'd still use an iBook. Go on, rationalize it.
>>55333152
Maybe you should point out what we're not denying instead of repeatedly whining that we're not denying it. Fucking moron.
Anyone have a link to where I can get a Tiger ISO? Most links are not working or for Leopard.
>>55333200
https://kat.cr/mac-os-x-10-4-tiger-dvd-ppc-t1289771.html
>>55333200
>macfag
>too dumb to google
ayylmao
>>55333229
Did you honestly expect otherwise from """""""""""people""""""""""" who have trouble with two button mice?
>>55333245
xDDD ur so funny
>>55332581
>remotely hacking a UNIX based OS is so easy a bored Chinaman can do it on his lunch break
Be afraid OP. Be afraid that a lonely Chinaman will scan the webs looking for your Tiger based Power Mac to hack for shits and giggles.
>>55333071
>this badly/desperately written shit that still says NOTHING of what I did or didn't deny
can you just stop posting now? it's pretty obvious you have no fucking idea what you're doing and are just shitposting to shitpost at this point
>Well, doesn't matter enjoy your shitty ancient hardware running an insecure OS that barely functions that you only use and rationalize because you cant afford something better
now THIS is a strawman, holy shit you're fucking dumb
>>55333223
Mich appreciated anon.
>>55333297
All macs are backdoored anyway since Apple is a fucking joke and left a root level backdoor unpatched in all OSX versions since 2011.
>>55333449
And we're talking about operating systems that came out years before that and were unsupported by Apple at that point. Dumbass.
>>55333449
>2011
we're not even talking about intel macs you fucking underage
go back to your vidya threads
>>55333467
>>55333511
>iDiot thinks exploits only affect software going forward in time once discovered and doesn't affect previous versions
Not surprising coming from a macfag. Why do you even come to a technology board?
>>55333575
You said in your own post that it only affects OS X versions from 2011 and up. Apple switched to Intel in 2006 and iirc dropped PowerPC support altogether in 2009.
Who's the idiot, anon? Oh that's right, it's you.
>>55333611
>macfag
>retarded and illiterate
Unsurprising.
>>55333673
>edgy 12 year old
>runs out of arguments
>gets told, resorts to ad hominem
Unsurprising.
>>55333695
>illiterate 12yo mactard thinks he told anyone
ayylmao
>>55333741
Anon, just deal with the fact that you're wrong. Quit being such a little bitch.
>>55333449
>>55333575
>>55333673
>>55333741
>the highlight of his life is getting called a retard over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again
get a girlfriend bro you sound thirsty as fuck
>>55333297
that chinaman is gonna be getting some prime-quality UT99 action
>>55333766
y u mad tho?
>>55333927
how can I be mad, if anything I feel sorry for your virgin ass
>>55333933
>being this mad
>>55333948
you can project some more if it makes you feel better bro, we're here for (You)
>>55333959
just step away from the computer bro lmao like nigga back away and stop gettin mad at the internet lol
