After the first one, i did another two imac g4 mod. Get accidental damage coverage and 247 priority access to apple experts. The 20 apple cinema display, the imac g5, and the imac g4 use essentially the same tmds panel the imac g4 is made by id tech, the others by lg and are pretty much interchangeable. Sage, ruby and indigo units are loaded with mac os x 10. A few simple steps can save you from losing your favorite photos and files. From there, you could use disk utility or carbon copy cloner or. For others, theres sheepshaver, a powerpc emulator capable of running mac os 9. At the end of the day, apple is still the one to beat. There is nothing else quite like them if your machine looks like the images on this page then it is a g4 imac. Now i had it in on a 933mhz g4 tower and i found it too. Power mac g4, power macintosh g3, powerbook g4, powerbook g3 except. All of these design terms were the same during the powerpc era of time. This website is primarily aimed at helping people to use and continue to use their imac g4s.
The imac g4 is an allinone personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by apple computer, inc. The members of our apple support community can help answer your question. I have now reconnected in the hope of using it with ipod classic. Originally known as the new imac the imac g4 was created to replace the imac g3 as apples allinone desktop computer. The power mac g4 is a series of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by apple computer, inc. If youre planning on running the treasures of the past youll find here on real old macintosh hardware from the 90s, you sirmadame, deserve to win an internet. Hi everyone i have a imac g4 15 flat screen 800ghz on mac osx 10.
The powermac g4 mdd was apples last mac capable of dualbooting into both mac os 9 and os x. The ppc archive team ourselves has a variety of machines, ranging from imac g3s, blue and whites, ibooks, powerbooks, and g5. Unless your macbook pro lacks a firewire port, you can use target disk mode to have the imac reboot and act as a firewire drive. So, if you have any software that originally ran on a g3, g4 or g5 mac, thats as far as it could be upgraded. The maximum version of mac os x, os x, or macos supported by each g3 and later mac follows. Transform the desktop experience by fitting powerful, easytouse technology into an elegant, allinone design. This software is available to download from the publisher site. The apple imac g4 is an allinone computer that was released in 2002 and sold until it was discontinued in 2004. The imac g4 also shipped with appleworks 6 an officelike productivity suite, pcalc 2 scientific calculator software, world book encyclopedia, and otto mattic a 3d action game. How to convert your old apple imac g4 into a cableready. A celebration of classic apple hardware and software. A platinum sanctuary for old software of the classic mac os era. Check out bizrate for great deals on popular brands like apple, belkin and corsair.
We also now have the user guidemanual for you to download. Or, if someones already asked, you can search for the best answer. Powerbook pismo ibook white power mac g4 quicksilver server g4 quicksilver imac g4 15 imac pro1imac retina, 27inch, mid 2017 macbook retina, mid 2017 macbook air mid. Can i put an intel mac mini into a g4 lampshade imac. Most of us have traded our desktop systems for laptops, tablets, and mobile devices, meaning theres a lot of outdated hardware sitting in attics. I believe it wants a 866mhz g4 or better and a dvd drive, but it could potentialy work on slightly slower machines. Powerpc software archive we have made our best attempt to deliver the last powerpc versions of various macintosh software so that you may continue to extend the life of your computers. Then use the powermac g4 software restore cd in place of the mac os x install cddvd i mentioned in the last. Use bizrates latest online shopping features to compare prices.
To suggest new software or request removal of our mirror please email us at. How to run old software and games on your mac techradar. Snow leopard was also the last version of os x to support powerpc processors. To determine which of the g4 imacs you have, use the apple system. Macs by maximum supported version of mac os x os x. Online shopping from a great selection at software store. Apple offers imovie as free download for powerbook and. Take a test run and see what your power mac g4 can do. The local u3a has received an imac g4 800 mhz, geforce2mx sporting the table lamp design. If you are new to this computer, click here to find out more about the. Introduced on october 23, 1999, it was promoted by apple as the best internet operating system ever, highlighting. It can also be used as classic mode on any powermac running mac os x 10. The g3 imac influenced the whole industry, but apple continued to move forward with innovative designs using g4, g5, and intel processors. Maybe its a powerbook that is running snow leopard, an original imac with tiger, an older macintosh lc 475 with system 7.
Processor must be any intel, powerpc g5 or g4 867 mhz and faster dvd drive for installation of the operating system at least 512 mb of ram additional ram 1 gb is recommended for development purposes at least 9 gb of disk space available. The last of the g4 towers, this model was originally introduced in 2002, briefly evolved into an os xonly. Does anyone know of a way to wipe the hard drive in an older imac g4 running osx without the original cds. Whatever the older macintosh computer is, to make it useful nowadays youd likely want to find and download some old mac software for it. For complete specs on a particular system, click the name of the mac.
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