![]() ![]() Of course I believe the display died so might simply take the housing apart and see whether I could add a new display. I might actually try and see if I can get it to work. One cable says TMDS Cable (display signal?) while another says Inverter Cable (power?). All the cables coming out of the display arm are labeled. Power Mac G4 Cube (Desktop) The Power Macintosh G3 (also sold with additional software as the Macintosh Server G3 ) is a series of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. Checked the serial number and I have the 800 MHz PowerPC 7445 (G4) version. ![]() Thought I had gutted it but only got rid of HDD and CD, the motherboard is still inside. from 1999 to 2004 as part of the Power Macintosh. ![]() I can't keep everything I've purchased (even though family and friends say I do). The Power Mac G4 is a series of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. It's probably the first version since I also got the first iMac the first day it was offered but it's been gone for awhile. I can see the box its in but no easy way to get to it to check which version I have. It's only a 15" TFT Active Matrix LCD display, 1024x768 display, so I'd have to figure out how to re-mount the display into the iMac display frame. I don't remember if my lampshade iMac's display still works. I'd go for iMac Retro (need to work on the name). Calling it a iMac G4 is not what I'd call mine. I'd have to find a high resolution display to replace the current one and make some alterations to the ports but it could still be a fun adventure. ![]() From that perspective, this endeavor was clearly a success.I kept the guts of my lampshade iMac and installing an M1 Mac mini would be fun. Then again much, like many of the best Raspberry Pi projects, installing a new component in an outdated Power Mac G4 is a lot less about convenience or improved performance as it is about fun and figuring out what's possible. Of course, using a FireWire 400 (around 50 MB/s) connection would have been faster, but connecting a modern SSD over a FireWire interface to a 20-year-old PC would probably have been even trickier than using a PCI slot. And it is certainly easier to plug in a USB drive, but Apple's Power Mac G4 only features two USB 1.1 ports, which means a 12 Mb/s data rate (1.5 MB/s), an order of magnitude slower compared to what a 32-bit 33 MHz PCI interface provides. After all that, there will still be performance limitations, such as the 133 MB/s bandwidth supported by a 32-bit 33 MHz PCI bus (keep in mind that we are talking about a half-duplex interface here), but this is to be expected.Ī legitimate question about installing a new SSD into a system with such a performance-capping interface is whether it would be far easier and faster to just plug in an external SSD using a USB connection. ![]()
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