What to do with Mac G4

[Crrose]

I just hooked up a Mac G4 that I had sitting around for ages after my father-in-law gave me a monitor. It is running 0SX 10.4 and pretty much stripped down of programs, nothing added. Thought I would use it in my garage while working on different things instead of running in and out of house. It is extremely slow, especially using internet (wireless). Anything I can do to improve performance without spending a lot of money?

[ratdude747]

Re: What to do with Mac G4

Not much. How much RAM is installed?

[Crrose]

Re: What to do with Mac G4

There is a 256mb and 128mg in there.

[Dan81]

Re: What to do with Mac G4

Is the RAM DDR or SDR?You can get 2x 512 MB sticks,depending on what type of RAM it uses.

[Uniballer]

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My wife has a G4 iMac (15", 1GHz, DDR RAM) that she still uses occasionally. I put a 1 GB stick in it so it had 1.25GB, and that helped. On that model the desktop style 256MB stick is buried inside, but you can add a laptop style stick in the user-accessible RAM slot without digging deep into the box (er, ball).

[Crrose]

Re: What to do with Mac G4

Ok I just checked at it has SDR memory and it's a 400 MHz machine (yeah I typed it correctly, 400 MHz).

[ivtec]

Re: What to do with Mac G4

I just hooked up a Mac G4 that I had sitting around for ages after my father-in-law gave me a monitor. It is running 0SX 10.4 and pretty much stripped down of programs, nothing added. Thought I would use it in my garage while working on different things instead of running in and out of house. It is extremely slow, especially using internet (wireless). Anything I can do to improve performance without spending a lot of money?

Just grab Linux Debian Wheezy 7 Iso and install it and you'll have a basic system for the web no flash player though.That's what i did with my Mac G5 and my wife is a happy camper.

[Logistics]

Re: What to do with Mac G4

Just grab Linux Debian Wheezy 7 Iso and install it and you'll have a basic system for the web no flash player though.That's what i did with my Mac G5 and my wife is a happy camper.

I have an iMac G4 and G5, and was considering bringing the G4 to work and setting it up in one of my cabinets. Would that Linux district do well on the 1GHz G4? Would a PPC version of Lubuntu be better?

[shovenose]

Re: What to do with Mac G4

400MHz G4 CPU? One place for that... Garbage.

[ivtec]

Re: What to do with Mac G4

I have an iMac G4 and G5, and was considering bringing the G4 to work and setting it up in one of my cabinets. Would that Linux district do well on the 1GHz G4? Would a PPC version of Lubuntu be better?

Man do what i sad install a mini ISO of Debian 7 wheezy then connect to the internet and you wil be happy.
i tried ubuntu Lubuntu but never could install it the only distro that can runn great is DEBIAN PPC

[Logistics]

Re: What to do with Mac G4

Man do what i sad install a mini ISO of Debian 7 wheezy then connect to the internet and you wil be happy.
i tried ubuntu Lubuntu but never could install it the only distro that can runn great is DEBIAN PPC

Do you think there is any chance of me being able to tether it to my android phone?

I have an unlocked, rooted EVO 4G that I run CM7 on, and was hoping to tether the iMac since I can't use the company network nor would I want to since they have watchdog programs installed.