Search results

A wonderful little gem, albeit with a screen resolution too small even for the time, but I'd certainly not spend such an exuberant price on that machine. $20,000?

Update #14 (can I still call it an update even though the challenge is over? Consider this an epilogue of sorts.) Here is my retrospective on the 2024 PowerPC Challenge, the first I was to participate in. It truly was challenging at times! But what may be puzzling to some was that the challenge...

Final Update #13: Well, here it is, nearly at the last possible minute! I went through a lot to get this movie finished here in time. Exporting took over 30 minutes and my iBook's fans were screaming all the way to the end. Yes, it is a video deliberately made in the style of late-2000s YouTube...

Update #12: I'm writing this as I wait for a ~5 minute HD video to export on my iBook G4. It's been about 8 minutes now. I must say I've had a troublesome day trying to get an adequate screen-recording and video editing setup on this computer. It has not been easy. I tried several options for a...

Update #11: As the 2024 PowerPC Challenge comes to a close, I’ll be trying my best to squeeze in as much updates today as I spend most of my day off with my iBook as I did yesterday, mainly installing the last few dozen applications I had downloaded this month. I gave insight on what I was...

Update #10: The physical modification I performed on my Mac was upgrading it to the maximum amount of RAM it can handle: 1.5 gigabytes! Yes, this iBook G4 1.33Ghz is now enjoying a full 1.5GB of memory, allowing for a much more comfortable and much less limiting experience. I never reach a...

Update #9: This all was handled before my previous update, so I'll make this one quick. It's just me wrapping up my experience with Unsanity's ShapeShifter theming program. I found that most themes were written for 10.3 Panther only and are incompatible with 10.4 Tiger, leading to broken...

Update #8: Tested several of the installed applications recently, and I appear to have a bunch of programs of the same variety. Having so many video converters, wallpaper switchers, audio players, disc burners and image editors is probably going to lead me to have to narrow down which ones I...

Update #7 I've been installing over 30 new applications to my iBook this week and my storage space is thinning because of it, but I'll probably have room when all is said and done. Text editors like Bean 2.4.5, audio players like MacAMP Lite X, email clients like MulBerry 4.0.8, video...

Update #6: I apologize for the prolonged absence, I am still enjoying beefing up my iBook with the latest versions of software written for it that I could find! In fact, I've been spending the past week searching, downloading, and eventually installing dozens of programs (and that's not...

Update #5: I installed and played around with Mighty Mouse and surveyed the archive of cursors found on Macintosh Garden and Macintosh Repository. Most of these were either incomplete, too unimpressive to be worthy of note, tacky/gaudy, or rather distracting, plus there’s no serial number to...

Update #4: Upon my next time using the iBook, I discovered that my arrow keys were locked up. I couldn’t use Command + ArrowUp to return to the parent folder in Finder, for example. Weird, but the arrow keys returned their functionality upon a restart of the computer. Maybe my installation of...

For $15, I'm not complaining! I would jump on a PPC Mac Mini for that price. It's a bummer that the optical drive is malfunctioning according to the attached notes.

Update #3: I tried using Handbrake 0.9.0 to compress video files, but discovered that Handbrake didn’t support the compression of files (only just DVDs at the time) until a later version years later that requires Leopard, I think. Bummer. I won’t be using Handbrake, then, for this purpose. The...

Update #2: So, it was iResize 3.1.1 (released in 2010) that was at fault. It bugged out when realizing it was being used on a 1024x768 screen. I was able to find a newer version of iResize online (version 3.2.5 from 2013) and it's still compatible with both Tiger and PowerPC, awesome! The good...

Update #1: I used the iBook G4 for an hour and a half, and the battery drained from 95% to 53% at the end of my session. I mostly listened to music. The iBook's speakers don't deliver bass that well in the slightest, and frequently drown out the sound of other instruments when bass is present...

Hello everyone! This is my first time participating in the PowerPC challenge! My computer of choice will be the iBook G4 (12 inch, 2005, 1.33Ghz, 512MB RAM, 40GB drive). I wanted to begin posting yesterday, but I created my account and was awaiting administrator approval, so here I am today...