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Bought an #SSD Upgrade to the #Powerbook G4 12" 1.5GHz

- chenyang mSATA Mini SATA SSD to IDE 44Pin
- Transcend MSA230 128GB mSATA SSD

Opening up this computer takes some commitment. And while I was in there I also lubricated the CPU fan to fix some noise. Then booted the computer from an external #Firewire disk and restored the #Sorbert Leopard image.

#VintageMac #Retrocomputing #PPC #PowerbookG4 #G4 #msata #Macintosh #PowerPC #osx

Bought an #SSD Upgrade to the #Powerbook G4 12" 1.5GHz

- chenyang mSATA Mini SATA SSD to IDE 44Pin
- Transcend MSA230 128GB mSATA SSD

Opening up this computer takes some commitment. And while I was in there I also lubricated the CPU fan to fix some noise. Then booted the computer from an external #Firewire disk and restored the #Sorbert Leopard image.

#VintageMac #Retrocomputing #PPC #PowerbookG4 #G4 #msata #Macintosh #PowerPC #osx

Bought an #SSD Upgrade to the #Powerbook G4 12" 1.5GHz

- chenyang mSATA Mini SATA SSD to IDE 44Pin
- Transcend MSA230 128GB mSATA SSD

Opening up this computer takes some commitment. And while I was in there I also lubricated the CPU fan to fix some noise. Then booted the computer from an external #Firewire disk and restored the #Sorbert Leopard image.

#VintageMac #Retrocomputing #PPC #PowerbookG4 #G4 #msata #Macintosh #PowerPC #osx

Bought an #SSD Upgrade to the #Powerbook G4 12" 1.5GHz

- chenyang mSATA Mini SATA SSD to IDE 44Pin
- Transcend MSA230 128GB mSATA SSD

Opening up this computer takes some commitment. And while I was in there I also lubricated the CPU fan to fix some noise. Then booted the computer from an external #Firewire disk and restored the #Sorbert Leopard image.

#VintageMac #Retrocomputing #PPC #PowerbookG4 #G4 #msata #Macintosh #PowerPC #osx

Bought an #SSD Upgrade to the #Powerbook G4 12" 1.5GHz

- chenyang mSATA Mini SATA SSD to IDE 44Pin
- Transcend MSA230 128GB mSATA SSD

Opening up this computer takes some commitment. And while I was in there I also lubricated the CPU fan to fix some noise. Then booted the computer from an external #Firewire disk and restored the #Sorbert Leopard image.

#VintageMac #Retrocomputing #PPC #PowerbookG4 #G4 #msata #Macintosh #PowerPC #osx

Think I’m installing #Debian Trixie on a #PowerMac #G4 Cube.

Today I did something fun!

On my left is my dear old 1GHz #Powerbook #G4. The best machine i've ever owned. But it's been around and seen better days.

Bought an upgrade: 1.5GHz, 1.25GB of RAM and 2x the VRAM.
Though just a CD-RW instead of a my broken DVD Burner. And the display is so much brighter, and the keys feels brand new!

Ordered an #msata to de adapter and disk just in case, but don't know if i want to use it.

#PowerPC #VintageComputing #VintageMac #PPC #Macintosh #Retrocomputing

Photo of the Day 7th April 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/04/07/photo-of-the-day-7th-april-2026/

Photo of the Day 7th April 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/04/07/photo-of-the-day-7th-april-2026/

Photo of the Day 7th April 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/04/07/photo-of-the-day-7th-april-2026/

Photo of the Day 7th April 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/04/07/photo-of-the-day-7th-april-2026/

Photo of the Day 7th April 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/04/07/photo-of-the-day-7th-april-2026/

@geerlingguy I never had one of them fancy rack mounted jobs, but I did run my website on a G4 Cube on my desk for many years (running Mac OS X Server 10.4).

I too liked that era of Mac OS X. I miss it.

#Apple #Macintosh #G4 #G4Cube #MacOS #MacOSX #OSX #Toaster

@geerlingguy I never had one of them fancy rack mounted jobs, but I did run my website on a G4 Cube on my desk for many years (running Mac OS X Server 10.4).

I too liked that era of Mac OS X. I miss it.

#Apple #Macintosh #G4 #G4Cube #MacOS #MacOSX #OSX #Toaster

@geerlingguy I never had one of them fancy rack mounted jobs, but I did run my website on a G4 Cube on my desk for many years (running Mac OS X Server 10.4).

I too liked that era of Mac OS X. I miss it.

#Apple #Macintosh #G4 #G4Cube #MacOS #MacOSX #OSX #Toaster

@geerlingguy I never had one of them fancy rack mounted jobs, but I did run my website on a G4 Cube on my desk for many years (running Mac OS X Server 10.4).

I too liked that era of Mac OS X. I miss it.

#Apple #Macintosh #G4 #G4Cube #MacOS #MacOSX #OSX #Toaster

@geerlingguy I never had one of them fancy rack mounted jobs, but I did run my website on a G4 Cube on my desk for many years (running Mac OS X Server 10.4).

I too liked that era of Mac OS X. I miss it.

#Apple #Macintosh #G4 #G4Cube #MacOS #MacOSX #OSX #Toaster

12 Second Boot on a 20 Year Old Mac? Testing MorphOS on the G4 // The Phintage Collector

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZtQFvNGjPA

#powerpc #morphos #retrocomputing #g4

Photo of the Day 11th February 2026.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/02/11/photo-of-the-day-11th-february-2026/

Over on my blog, @vextaur I've done MLP story reviews, and lets try one here and see if'n Markdown can make it look good. For today, we're doing two stories we don't like, because it makes little point only being a cheerleader, right?

First off, The White-Tail Affair.
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Honestly I hate to dislike this one, because the supporting cast is actually interesting and fun, Blueblood is… Odd, and I'm curious what's going on with him. Raven, even weirder, and Goody Two-Shoes the pegasus lawyer is fun… Unfortunately our main character Eterna Blossom is just a train wreck that drags the story down which really sucks with so many interesting and/or good characters running around.
What's the story about?
Well so far a diplomatic mission with the deer that live near the Everfree. So far because we've had a glimpse of a future where they're studying what went wrong I think, plus there's plenty of references to Eterna's family history which is tied to Nightmare Moon and the Everfree Forest. Seriously, I find myself being pretty sure there's a lot going on that I have figured out yet, but that's not a bad thing. Really its a shame about this one.

So what's the second one?
Leather & Lace.
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This is another potential squandered by a basically unlikable lead. Seriously, we have a person who's pulled into Friendship is Magic (My Little Pony generation 4) from the 80's via magic. Suspending disbelief that Twilight could do this without Celestia noticing, this is an interesting idea because typically human in Equestria stories are just that, or the human died and is reborn and is familiar with G4, but here the character is only vaguely aware of My Little Pony and that would be the first cartoon version, along with being converted into a pony when he was pulled in. Problem is that Andy isn't very likeable, survivor of an abusive childhood that ran off to CA to become a rock star, alcoholic and a drug user. This character sabotages himself at every opportunity, and while I'm glad there's no miracle cures in this Equestria, there doesn't seem to be any cures or help available. Because of this, things never really move forward, 7 chapters in, and really nothing has changed, things have happened, but nothing has really changed.

Seriously, the fact that I gave up on both of these is telling, I can put up with characters, settings or versions of Equestria that aren't entirely likeable, I mean I'm still reading Ascension, Abdication or Abduction, a story that I can say has its moments, the good parts out number the bad, but it definitely has issues.
Both of these though?
Yeah, definitely thumbs down, don't waste your time.

EDIT: It has been spoken for!

Free to a good home: A Mac G4 in a Marathon rackmount case. It has a serial port, Zip drive, SCSI card, and two DIMMs of RAM. We forgot to take the PRAM battery out, but fortunately it didn't leak. 😅
It's up for grabs to anyone who wants to pay the shipping. 📦 :apple_inc:

#FreeToAGoodHome #Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #Apple #Server #G4 #RackMount

Jonagold January

#pony #mlp #g4 #fanart

glim glam (my first drawing of the year and it was a warm up)

#g4
#starlightglimmer #heartswarming #brony #mlp #mylittlepony

All G2 networks in SR SA have been shutdown till further notice

That means for ever.

Apart from the fact that I cannot choose this gorgeous G2 phone anymore, to play music on the road, BT, I will not be able to wonder how much technology was put in such a small phone
This is not Nostalgia because there's a lot of those phones that I used and they all need to be quote unquote smartphones now

#G2 #networks #phone #G4 #G5

#technology

#XMAS Special ;)
#RunCPM v6.9 on my
#Apple #Powerbook #G4
Running under
Unofficial #debian 13.0 #Trixie #32Bit #PowerPC
Snapshot (06.12.2025)

System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4

https://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7711.0

#HackerNews #System7 #MacMini #G4 #RetroComputing #ClassicMacs #AppleHistory

Got a box of random ponies and I’m going to attempt to clean these up first.

#MLP #G4 #TrixieLulamoon #DJPonee #Rarity #PinkyPie #Seapony

Walworth County WI seeing the auroras right now. Thank you Paige for the photo. #wiwx #auroras #g4 #northernlights

Amazing. I just came across this 2010 clip of G4’s Attack of the Show where Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn discuss a Blogspot page that a fan made. That fan was me! 😄

And yes, it’s still live: https://pereirawafflepyramid.blogspot.com

#G4 #G4TV #AttackoftheShow #KevinPereira #OliviaMunn #tech #technology

Reached out to Brock over at @everymac with a bit of a mystery. I purchased a G4 iMac back in '22 at the VCFMW. However, the model # seems to be fairly unique. It's an M6498 which is correct, but it's an EMC 1987 which Googling doesn't seem to pull back much. Plus it came standard with 512MB of RAM which was also not standard. I'm guessing a BTO, but maybe the fediverse has more insight? #mac #g4 #imac #apple

Calamity my beloved

Drew this one during my first read of fallout equestria, and it was the first pony art i ever made on krita

#g4 #mlp #pony #falloutequestria #fanfic #fanart #krita #FIM #ponyart

Why would a computer (specifically a #G4 tower) power off when a DVD is put in the drive? I'm trying to figure out what's happening to the power supply in this situation that's causing the behaviour, because it's probably a pretty good clue as to what I did wrong when I rewired it that's also causing it to turn off after running for 15-20 min.

And it's not the drive itself. I swapped in another one just to eliminate that variable. I'm fairly certain it's something wrong with the way I rewired the ATX power supply to adapt it to Apple's weird non-standard pinout.

#powermac #g4 #atx #switchmode #powersupply #halp

Why would a computer (specifically a #G4 tower) power off when a DVD is put in the drive? I'm trying to figure out what's happening to the power supply in this situation that's causing the behaviour, because it's probably a pretty good clue as to what I did wrong when I rewired it that's also causing it to turn off after running for 15-20 min.

And it's not the drive itself. I swapped in another one just to eliminate that variable. I'm fairly certain it's something wrong with the way I rewired the ATX power supply to adapt it to Apple's weird non-standard pinout.

#powermac #g4 #atx #switchmode #powersupply #halp

Why would a computer (specifically a #G4 tower) power off when a DVD is put in the drive? I'm trying to figure out what's happening to the power supply in this situation that's causing the behaviour, because it's probably a pretty good clue as to what I did wrong when I rewired it that's also causing it to turn off after running for 15-20 min.

And it's not the drive itself. I swapped in another one just to eliminate that variable. I'm fairly certain it's something wrong with the way I rewired the ATX power supply to adapt it to Apple's weird non-standard pinout.

#powermac #g4 #atx #switchmode #powersupply #halp

Why would a computer (specifically a #G4 tower) power off when a DVD is put in the drive? I'm trying to figure out what's happening to the power supply in this situation that's causing the behaviour, because it's probably a pretty good clue as to what I did wrong when I rewired it that's also causing it to turn off after running for 15-20 min.

And it's not the drive itself. I swapped in another one just to eliminate that variable. I'm fairly certain it's something wrong with the way I rewired the ATX power supply to adapt it to Apple's weird non-standard pinout.

#powermac #g4 #atx #switchmode #powersupply #halp

No idea. Mounted the small rubber shroud for the rear fan from the Quicksilver, as opposed to the plastic shield that holds the fan in the Digital Audio, and I've mounted a 120mm fan on top pointing out, Intel cooler style. I don't honestly think heat is the issue, but I'd like to at least eliminate it as a variable (or hey, maybe it is the issue, and I can prevent losing another night to fighting with yet another cursed G4).

Starting to once again lose my taste for playing with old Macs (though there's always the possibility that it's a side effect of the modified ATX power supply).

#powermac #g4 #powermacg4 #os9

It is entirely possible that what is actually happening is it's going to sleep, and then failing to wake up (which I think is a side effect of the modded ATX power supply). I've now slid the sleep timer in the Energy Saver panel to Never, but I'm too dumb and impatient to wait and see if this solves it, and I currently have OS9.2 installing to the IDE drive. Wish me luck, lol.

#powermac #powermacg4 #g4 #macos9

Here stranger have some flut art for your troubles

#mlp #g4 #ponyart #fanart #traditionalart #sketch

IT WORKED.

I did film the moment of truth, but all that happened was the same thing as before, the power button lit up for as long as I held it down with my finger. So I stopped filming, and then several seconds later, I heard what sounds like a fairly whiny unhealthy fan spin up, and I looked down and saw the obnoxiously RGB Corsair keyboard lit up.

I assumed nothing was happening, so didn't hold Cmd+Alt+O+F long enough to get into open firmware and boot via USB, so that's why I'm just getting the icon, I assume.

Actually now that I think of it, wouldn't it be a question mark icon if it were a matter of an HDD with no bootable OS? It might just be slowly booting off the USB as we speak cause I'm still seeing smiley Finder folder icon. ???

#PowerMac #G4 #Quicksilver #OS9 #OSX #OSXTiger

Was about to test the newly modified ATX PSU in my Quicksilver G4... before I realized it was missing the CMOS battery (I forgot what Apple calls this, but it's the 1/2 AA battery that lives on the mobo... whatever). Why I bought a new battery for it, then realized the PSU was going to need replacing before it would work, and then removed the brand new battery I bought is a mystery to me. Maybe I thought I'd be holding onto it long enough to worry about the battery leaking a corroding the board? (iirc it was a lithium battery though, so honestly no idea what was going thru my head... or where I stored it in the meantime lmao)

#powerMac #g4 #quicksilver #macosx

Okay I'm in a little over my head. If somebody who knows more about electriconics/power supplies could help clear up my confusion, it would be very much appreciated!

I'm following the atxg4.com guide to modify an ATX power supply to work in my PowerMac G4 Quicksilver 2002 (link: http://atxg4.com/quicksilver.html), but it is a little light on details, and some of it is just straight up ambiguous (at least to me lol). I can whip up a MIDI controller or an arcade stick with a microcontroller, but that's more programming than circuitry; my actual #EE knowledge is novice hobbyist at best.

Anyway, I *think* I got the "connect the +3.3v line to the Power OK" part right? I interpreted their words + the pinout diagram to mean that I twist them together and they go together into Pin 8? Again, a bit ambiguos; because pin 8 is grey on the ATX pinout, and orange on the Quicksilver pinout, but it sounds like I'm being told to put grey AND orange into pin 8? (See below photo for current status)

#powermac #g4 #quicksilver #atx #psu #powersupply #help

Clip studio decided to not work today, so here's some cute Krita art of a monochromatic rainbow !

#mylittlepony #mlp #rainbowdash #fanart #art
#g4 #pony

Thinking Different, Thinking Slowly: LLMs on a PowerPC Mac [The Resistor Network]

http://www.theresistornetwork.com/2025/03/thinking-different-thinking-slowly-llms.html

#Mac #vintageMac #PowerBook #PowerPC #PPC #AltiVec #G4 #G5 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #AI #LLM #machinelearning #coding #Apple #tech #blog #programming

Man I love this setup but I’m seriously pondering a downgrade to a quicksilver just to escape fan noise (and that’s after a full fan replacement and fresh thermal goup).
#retrocomputing #g4 #mdd #windtunnel

Aquafox: Ein moderner Browser für alte PowerPC Macs mit Tiger und Leopard
Hast du noch einen alten PowerPC Mac im Schrank? Wenn ja, könntest du ihm mit dem Aquafox-Browser neues Leben einhauchen. Aquafox ist ein Webbrowser, der für ältere PowerPC Macs entwic
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/aquafox-ein-moderner-browser-fuer-alte-powerpc-macs-mit-tiger-und-leopard/
#Mac #News #Aquafox #G4 #G5 #InterWebPPC #MacOSXLeopard #MacOSXTiger #PowerBook #PowerPCMac #RetroComputing #TenFourFox

Aquafox: Ein moderner Browser für alte PowerPC Macs mit Tiger und Leopard
Hast du noch einen alten PowerPC Mac im Schrank? Wenn ja, könntest du ihm mit dem Aquafox-Browser neues Leben einhauchen. Aquafox ist ein Webbrowser, der für ältere PowerPC Macs entwic
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/aquafox-ein-moderner-browser-fuer-alte-powerpc-macs-mit-tiger-und-leopard/
#Mac #News #Aquafox #G4 #G5 #InterWebPPC #MacOSXLeopard #MacOSXTiger #PowerBook #PowerPCMac #RetroComputing #TenFourFox

Aquafox: Ein moderner Browser für alte PowerPC Macs mit Tiger und Leopard
Hast du noch einen alten PowerPC Mac im Schrank? Wenn ja, könntest du ihm mit dem Aquafox-Browser neues Leben einhauchen. Aquafox ist ein Webbrowser, der für ältere PowerPC Macs entwic
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/aquafox-ein-moderner-browser-fuer-alte-powerpc-macs-mit-tiger-und-leopard/
#Mac #News #Aquafox #G4 #G5 #InterWebPPC #MacOSXLeopard #MacOSXTiger #PowerBook #PowerPCMac #RetroComputing #TenFourFox