Aug 04, 2005 the 15inch powerbook g4 covers all the bases, delivering speed, performance, wireless connectivity, and portability to business and creative professionals. Macintosh computer with a powerpc g3, g4 or g5 processor builtin firewire dvd drive for installation 256mb of ram. Performa 630cd ready to go to a museum in its original packaging but today. It is a 400 mhz with 1 gb of ram, a new 5400 rpm 40 gb hard drive with airport card and running mac os x 10.
Move the external drive to a mac supported by the tiger installer i used my g4, if you dont have one, find a friend who does. Move the external drive to a mac supported by the tiger installer i used my g4, if you dont have one, find. V73496h7nry i have bought leopard and it will not load, i would like to unload the pc emulator and load leopard ready. The 15inch powerbook g4 covers all the bases, delivering speed, performance, wireless connectivity, and portability to business and creative professionals. You could probably find a illegal copy online but most people find. Powerbook g4 forget username and password solved macos. Built around the powerpc g4 series of microprocessors, the power mac g4 was marketed by apple as the first personal supercomputers, reaching speeds of 4 to 20 gigaflops. The powerbook g3 series was apples first notebook offering that matched the buildtoorder customization of the power mac g3 desktop line. The titanium powerbook g4 models initially ran on the mac os x 10. Running tiger from flash on a powerbook g4, john muir, mac daniel, 2007. Ich finde trotz endlosen suchen keine aw im netz, vielleicht konntet ihr mir ja helfen.
Topangebote fur apple notebooks powerbook powerpc g4 online. Apple powerbook g4 m8407 15 fully functional mac os x 10. Leopard does have a higher overhead with increased eye candy and features such as spaces and time machine, but these dont add up to a significant decrease in performance. Apple powerbook g4 15inch and 17inch software install and. Jun 14, 2003 used with later power macintosh systems mostly.
The ibooks have been targeted at universal consumers, on an identical time as the powerbooks have been targeted at experts. The latest version of os x that any powerbook g4 can run is mac os x leopard, released in 2007. Very helpful if you have a 3rd party cdrom drive that is not an apple rom device. I have a power book g4 model a1001 what version of tiger 10. Power source battery powered additional information.
Full refund minus shipping charges if the item is returned in same condition. If neither works, and you have another mac available, you can connect the powerbook to the other mac using a firewire cable, then boot the powerbook using target disk mode. Compared to leopard, its a very lean and quick os, and it is still supported by a lot of software out there. Come morning and the little powerbook is happy with all leopard updates applied, ready to install tiger and panther in a tripleboot setup. Mac powerbook g4 tiger wont start up solutions experts. Hello, i have powerbook g4 and windows is mac osx i for get username password plz tell me what i do. Once you have the file downloaded to your mac os x partition, you will be using the disk utility app under the applicationsutilities folder to restore the. I have a powerbook g4 titanium 500 that i hooked up to my powerbook g4 1500 in firewire disk mode and installed. Jul 19, 2009 i am having problems when i go to install tiger on my mac powerbook g4. The t key forces the powerbook firewire and reportedly the power mac g4 agp graphics, though i was unable to verify that on my machine to start up in firewire target disk mode, which is essentially the modern equivalent of scsi disk mode and enables a powerbook firewire to act as a firewireaccessible hard disk for another macintosh. Apple notebooks powerbook powerpc g4 gunstig kaufen ebay. Is it possible that there are different versions of this os and some dont work on my ppc mac. There are a lot of browsers for tiger, but some of them i wouldnt put in the lightweight category and therefore didnt include in my testing. I would like to have a rescue cd in case my computer is does not boot one day.
Introduction i recently decided to give some attention to my powerbook g4 12 1. I dont have the hardware to test this, but the files seem to be intact. Apple powerbook g4 15inch and 17inch software install and restore disc mac os x version 10. The newertech usb universal drive adapter is a handy little device to hook up an internal. The powerbook g4 is the last generation of the powerbook series, and was succeeded by the intelpowered macbook pro line in the first half of 2006. Opera mail also features a newsreader and a newsfeed reader for rss and atom, as well as an irc client for online chat. It starts to copy, then stalls, requiring a finder relaunch. I need to reinstall the mac os x leopard on it, but i dont have it. Powerbook g4 forget username and password solvedclosed report.
Discontinued in may 1999, this would be the last apple computer ever to bear the rainbowcolored apple logo and the last mac to support apples superdrive. Powerbook g4 titanium dvi powerpc g4 664 mhz, ati mobility radeon 7500, 64 gb adata sp310 ssd, 512 mb ram, mac os x leopard 10. Initial shipping cost will not be refunded absolutely no returns if tampered with. The forthcoming opera 9 will also feature widgets as well as further bittorrent functionality. Apple notebooks ibook powerpc g4 gunstig kaufen ebay. Apple powerbook g4 m8407 15 battery does not hold charge clean unitminor insignificant scratches and blemishes. If youve got music on your mac that you want to sync to your ios device you can use the finder starting in macos catalina. How to install mac os 9 if you already have os x installed. Join our g4 books group or powerbooks and ibooks forum. I plan to reformat the drive and start fresh, and am trying to decide between 10. It also adds the dock as a place to launch applications not dissimilar to the underused.
Use carbon copy cloner to copy the external drive onto the laptop internal drive. Is there any where some one can download mac os x 10. The power mac g4 is a series of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by apple computer, inc. It was the first laptop to use the powerpc g3 ppc740750 series of microprocessors, and was marketed as the fastest laptop in the world for its entire production run. If you have a firewire cable you can connect the 1. If you are on one of these systems plan to run tiger os10. Aug 21, 2007 mac computer with an intel, powerpc g5, or powerpc g4 processor. I now have a working copy of tiger running on my powerbook g3. Its up to almost any modern tasks, as long as you dont rely. Getting started with your powerbook g4 apple support. I tried installing the discs and got a cannot install on this computer message. Can i upgrade my old apple powerbook g4 to leopard. I am unable to test these because the computer they came with no longer turns on.
Powerbook g4 in 2019 this thing is so old its funny youtube. Well, its true that your powerbook probably came with tiger, but os x has a history of running faster with every new version, even on the same hardware. Is my powerbook g4 compatible with mac os x leopard. Installing tiger by usb on wiped powerbook g4 macrumors forums.
It also featured a frontmounted slotloading optical drive. Boots the machine into open firmware new world rom systems only. Jan 11, 2015 in this video i will install mac osx tiger 10. For the final few titanium models, apple switched to the mac os x 10. If i get one, can i connect my powerbook by firewire to a macbook pro and install the os to the hd target on the powerbook. My powerbook g4 needs safari updated, according to gmail, facebook and other sites. The g4 was among the first laptops to use a screen with a widescreen aspect ratio. Leopard runs just fine on my wifes powerbook g4, no mucking in the terminal necessary.
Apples mac os x tiger tech spec page suggests using the following for tiger minimum. Ive got the hard disk partitioned and ive successfully installed debian from cd. The original disk you tried to use was for a later powerbook g4, this one likely shipped with panther. My powerbook g4 12 journal full tear down, ssd upgrade. Which for me, is the best operating system for apple computers with a g3, g4, or g5 power pc processor. Turn an eligible device into credit towards a new one, or recycle it for free. There is software that can trick the os into installing onto a computer that does not meet the processor speed requirement, but believe me, with a 400 or 500mhz g4, leopard would be painfully slow.
Reset my mac powerbook g4 back to factory settings no disk forum system software. As far as i am aware i have the correct osx for this machine model is a18, serial is w8swz and has the power pc cpu. After looking carefully at my results and some of the comments i received, i have retested some of the more lightweight browsers on my pismo powerbook g3. This in effect makes the powerbook act as an external hard drive to the other mac and you can then use the other mac to recover the files from the pb. A few simple steps can save you from losing your favorite photos and files.
It has a ati ragem3 video chip with only 8mb and core image runs in software mode. The biggest problem i have found is the video driver. Powermac g4 modern browser options monday, september 23rd, 20 author. Can i install the ios sdk and xcode on an old mac powerbook. Jan 10, 2012 this is a small tutorial i made of how to factory reset mac to factory just by fallowing this easy steps 1. Not sure if this is the right place for posting this, but i recently got my hands on a 17 powerbook g4 with a wiped hard drive. There is software that can trick the os into installing onto a computer that does not meet the processor speed requirement, but believe me, with a 400 or 500mhz g4. If youve got music on your mac that you want to sync to your ios device you can use the finder starting in macos. The powerbook g3 was succeeded by the powerbook g4.
The previous owner didnt know what the specs were and had it listed as an 867mhz original series with cdrom and 256mb ram. Resolved installing tiger by usb on wiped powerbook g4. A client gave me her powerbook g4 today, and i know next to nothing about basic mac repairs. It features a new theme called aqua which replaces platinum from mac os 8 and 9. Before i take it to a professional, thought maybe i could get some ideas to try here. Powerbook g4 no password or install discs solved ccm. This is the powerpc mac forum on macrumors and were all about these old macs.
Will the following mac os x tiger operating system work with my powerbook g4 mac. Apple s mac os x tiger tech spec page suggests using the following for tiger minimum. With the hard drive failing and compact flash prices falling, it was time to consider running the powerbook g4 from flash. Accoding to your post stating model a1010 or a1104, you will have no problem wiht any 10. The software is brand new out of the box, what do i do. Our mac os 9 group is for those using mac os 9, either natively or in classic mode. Mac os x tiger installation on my 17 powerbook g4 youtube. The powerbook g3 is a series of laptop macintosh personal computers designed, manufactured and sold by apple computer, inc. Leopard can be installed on g4 titaniums, but only ones that have at least 512mb of ram, and a minimum processor speed of 867mhz. Feb 18, 2010 i have a power book g4 model a1001 what version of tiger 10. Since all of the macbook pros baseline scores are over 100, it even outperformed our baseline system, a power mac g5 1. Getting started with your powerbook g4 includes setup, expansion, and troubleshooting information for powerbook g4 computers ll2010.
Apple, mac os, mac os x, panther, ibook, ibook g4 apple mac os x 10. Installing tiger on a powerbook g4 macrumors forums. I still do my graphic designs on a g4 800mhz os 10. Install tiger on a lombard powerbook g3 mac os x hints. Ok, restart your computer, hold down commands and type in the following. Download old version of opera for mac for mac os x 10. Apple powerbook g4 15inch and 17inch software install. The notebook was given the unofficial nickname tibook, after the titanium case and the powerbook brand name.
Use carbon copy cloner to place a copy of the laptop hard drive onto the external drive. In this video, i will explore the features of the mac os x tiger and show how responsive the system remains under any circumstances. Mar 08, 2006 hello i am currently running mac osx 10. The only benchmark where the powerbook g4 outperformed the macbook pro, stdlib allocate, depends more on. Forces your mac to startup from its internal cdrom drive or an external hard drive. It is a conglomoration of nextstep, aux, and mac os 9. V73496h7nry i have bought leopard and it will not load, i would like to. If you want tiger you need to buy a retail copy black to do the install. Apple powerbook powerpc g4 laptops for sale in stock ebay. When my neighbor asked me what he could do to fix his problems with browsing the internet on his g4 mirrored drive door, my immediate response was to upgrade that machine to a mac mini. Apr 09, 2010 i have a power book g4 with tiger mac osx 10. It is based off the unix kernel and provides compatibility with x11. I was wondering how i could create a bootable cd that looks and runs just like a normal mac computer, but was. My powerbook g4 12 journal full tear down, ssd upgrade and.
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