For almost five years, the heart of the Power Mac was the PowerPC G4 chip. Starting in 1999 it clocked at just 350 MHz, but by the time the Power Mac G4 line was retired, a tower with dual 1.42 GHz ...

Apple used to be more experimental with Mac designs, whether out of necessity or genuine interest. Sometimes this succeeded, as in the case of the iMac G4, but there were also notable failures ...

Christophe Meneboeuf asks "Is the Mac Mini G4 the best classic Macintosh for retro-gaming?" It being among the last pre-Intel machines that didn't come with a built-in display or in a chassis the ...

Last month, we looked at the Power Mac G4 line, a series of computers that defined the professional workstation for OS X users for many years. In June 2003 — 15 years ago this month — Steve Jobs took ...

A software developer has proven it is possible to run a modern LLM on old hardware like a 2005 PowerBook G4, albeit nowhere near ... project to run on a PowerPC Mac. This latter point involved ...

In a recent video, [Michael MJD] decided to give MorphOS 3.17 a shot on a Mac G4 Cube. Although installing MorphOS went relatively smoothly for [Michael] (with just a monitor-related glitch), he ...

The Mac Mini motherboard was then prepped to install in the iMac’s dome-shaped housing; notably, the entire board is smaller than the stock iMac G4’s hard drive. It still took plenty of ...

detailed how he managed to run generative AI on an old PowerBook G4. While hardware requirements for large language models (LLMs) are typically high, this particular PowerBook G4 model from 2005 ...