Yesterday my uncle gave me some random laptops he didn't need anymore.
Among them was a PowerBook G4... it's a totally beast computer with 1680x1050 resolution, a huge screen, and a very messed up battery...
It ran OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and it was ssslllooowww... Opening Firefox 3.6.10 (for some reason I couldn't update more) took like 30 seconds. It's got a 120G hard drive, and after removing 85GB of crap (4GB free) I had more than 91GB free. I removed a bunch of the crap I didn't need, but it was still extremely so.
Then I had an idea. What about Linux?
Googling "PowerPC Linux" eventually got me to a download page for Ubuntu 10.10 PowerPC. I downloaded it, burned it, and booted the PowerBook from it. The installation went well, and it ACTUALLY WORKS!
Even better, this computer (keep in mind it has a 1.67GHz CPU) Can run Firefox 3.6.24 (latest version of 3.6, the newer version I couldn't get to install and it is too bloated anyway)...
It's much much much much faster, and Ubuntu includes full support for sound and wireless!
Now I have a nice huge laptop that's very fast!
Now, If only I could get the trackpad to work...
Among them was a PowerBook G4... it's a totally beast computer with 1680x1050 resolution, a huge screen, and a very messed up battery...
It ran OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and it was ssslllooowww... Opening Firefox 3.6.10 (for some reason I couldn't update more) took like 30 seconds. It's got a 120G hard drive, and after removing 85GB of crap (4GB free) I had more than 91GB free. I removed a bunch of the crap I didn't need, but it was still extremely so.
Then I had an idea. What about Linux?
Googling "PowerPC Linux" eventually got me to a download page for Ubuntu 10.10 PowerPC. I downloaded it, burned it, and booted the PowerBook from it. The installation went well, and it ACTUALLY WORKS!
Even better, this computer (keep in mind it has a 1.67GHz CPU) Can run Firefox 3.6.24 (latest version of 3.6, the newer version I couldn't get to install and it is too bloated anyway)...
It's much much much much faster, and Ubuntu includes full support for sound and wireless!
Now I have a nice huge laptop that's very fast!
Now, If only I could get the trackpad to work...
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