Any Use for a Power Mac G4?
I have an old Power Mac G4 MDD on my hands and I was wondering if anyone could think of some cool uses for it!
Sell it, man. There's a huge market for vintage PCs like this - people love to run old games/software on the original machines they were designed for.
A quick look online suggests people value it around 2-3x as much as an i5 machine with 8GB RAM.
A PowerMac G4 will run the latest OpenBSD. https://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html I run it on one of my iMac G4's (and on many other non-PPC machines). It occurs to me that if you replace the HDD with an SSD it would also be quite a lot faster.
If you don't want to use it, toss it on Craigslist for sure (if you have a local Craigslist site). Depending on the specs and your location I'd expect around $50-75 CAD (basing this on Vancouver Canada area and habitually searching the words "macintosh", "powermac", "powerpc" etc. literally every day :) )
I bought a g4 laptop for vintage computing, but once the initial excitement retired I kept it on bookshelf. I don't regret buying it because it only cost 50 bucks including postal charge and even the battery still works.
So yeah I agree with a fellow commentor that if you don't know what to do maybe find someone who can pay premium and sell it.
OpenBSD 7.1 still offers the macppc port. It was pretty fast on my later G4s.
Nice, I used to use one of those at work! That was a weapon of mass creation back in the day. I don't know what counts as cool to you, but to me just using the thing as-outfitted seems pretty cool :D
Put Adelie Linux on it, and you'll still be able to browse when the cyberattacks take down all the x86 machines.
Running code destined for space, or the Xbox 1 or …
Does Linux support it? I recently installed Arch on my old MacBook ‘Early 2009’ (but that’s an Intel machine).
Remove the head sink and reuse it for other projects, beyond that i had no use for mine.