![]() ![]() ![]() It must be time for Apple to unload the last of the old hardware. Like the 2002 Mirrored Drive Doors Power Mac G4, this model can boot into OS 9 as well as OS X. Malseed used one of the final versions that used Java 5 (the last to support PowerPC processors), which came with some third-party platform optimisation tweaks added by users of the MacRumors forum. Power Mac G4 (Mid 2003) Leave it to Apple to completely confuse the market by releasing a brand new 1.25 GHz Power Mac G4 model at the same time it announced the first Power Mac G5s. ![]() This continued with the version of Minecraft. /rebates/&252fpower-mac-g4-for-youtube-watching. Meanwhile, the RAM saw an upgrade from the base 64MB to the maximum amount of 1.5GB. The slow spinning HDD was replaced with a faster mSATA SSD, connected via an IDE adaptor. He also replaced the sluggish ATI Rage 128 GPU with a more modern Nvidia GeForce 6200 card running hacked firmware. Not the fastest, but a significant performance increase nonetheless. Malseed's machine used an aftermarket Sonnet 1.2GHz G4 upgrade card. With an upgrade card from Sonnet, you could boost this to 1.8GHz. The G4 Cube shipped with a choice of 450MHz and 500MHz processors. You could replace the processor too as it sat on a daughter board. Its internal graphics card was connected via PCI, opening the door to upgrades further down the line. This is something you can't really say about contemporary Apple computers. But, to the credit of Jony Ive, it was remarkably customisable. ![]()
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