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Power Macintosh G3 All-In-One (OS X content)
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SLiMeX
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Mar 16, 2006, 12:20 PM
 
I picked up a few of the old Power Mac G3 AIO's from a school near me that was throwing them out. Got bored one night, and decided to attempt to get the latest and greatest onto the computer. In the end, I had to hack the DVD disc image on a Windoze machine, but it turned out great. It's running OS 10.4.5 very well; no problems. Just thought someone might get a chuckle out of this. I know I did. Pictures for enjoyment:







     
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Mar 16, 2006, 01:11 PM
 
Makes you wonder why they threw them out at all.
Good work.
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SLiMeX  (op)
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Mar 16, 2006, 01:14 PM
 
Yeah. They threw out about 20 of them, I ended up grabbing 4. I would've grabbed them all if I had a pickup truck and the space at home to put them!
     
SLiMeX  (op)
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Mar 17, 2006, 05:01 PM
 
no one else liked this idea?
     
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Mar 17, 2006, 05:17 PM
 
I think that's cool!

...just doesn't seem like it'd be fast enough to be useful.
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SLiMeX  (op)
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Mar 17, 2006, 11:17 PM
 
QUOTE=Apfhex]I think that's cool!

...just doesn't seem like it'd be fast enough to be useful.[/QUOTE]

It's surprisingly quick for running OS X & being that old of a machine. Fun!

It will be going on eBay tomorrow!
     
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Mar 18, 2006, 05:06 AM
 
i'd like to buy one of them!
     
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Mar 18, 2006, 11:31 AM
 
Good work. I always loved the design. Molar Mac lives on!
     
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Mar 20, 2006, 12:32 AM
 
Didn't it have a PCI card? Install the ATI Radeon 9200.
     
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Mar 24, 2006, 11:04 AM
 
Oh Yeah! Hack that Mac. What did you do to the DVD (I am curious)?

We never got the AIO here in Aus, so I've never seen one. But it seems more functional than the iMac (if not so pretty).

Now you need to hardware upgrade it to a 1GHz G4, 768Mb RAM, huge hdd, superdrive...
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Mar 24, 2006, 11:14 AM
 
Try removing all your Dashboard widgets to free up some RAM. Each one uses about 20 MB of RAM at all times, so you could be eating up 200 MB or even more, and you only have 384 MB installed!

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