Mon Jan 28 19:09:20 2002
All babbling aside, is anyone else curious about messing with PPC stuff? I'm itching to see NetBSD run on it, but I don't feel like putting the money down to buy an old Mac (and I won't own an iMac, thankyouverymuch. ;) ) Especially since I have a perfectly good Performa CD sitting and waiting for a new hard drive, heh.
Anyhow, consider yourselves informed those of you who care, and those of you who don't, consider yourselves spammed.
Enjoi.
Mon Jan 28 19:20:59 2002
Mon Jan 28 19:22:51 2002
(Edited by Imitation Gruel at 11:23 am on Jan. 28, 2002)
Mon Jan 28 19:41:49 2002
Mon Jan 28 19:52:33 2002
I guess I just like playing with different hardware.
Always admirable. However, in this case, the price is just utterly unreasonable. It'd literally have to drop by a full order of magnitude before I'd even consider it.
Mon Jan 28 20:24:19 2002
Always admirable. However, in this case, the price is just utterly unreasonable. It'd literally have to drop by a full order of magnitude before I'd even consider it.
Mon Jan 28 20:28:45 2002
G4 derivatives [color=red][font=papyrus][size=25]OWN[/size][/font][/color] at RC5 due to Altivec.
(Edited by Imitation Gruel at 12:29 pm on Jan. 28, 2002)
Mon Jan 28 20:46:16 2002
You can pick up old Macs or Clones like my "Ghetto Mac" and perform a few upgrades, these will run the PPC BSD's and Linux real nice.
Ebay always has them for reasonable prices.
Once in awhile people try to unload them in the agora for very cheap. I'll keep you posted for this. I've seen them down to $50 for G3 upgradable stuff, and G3 cards are to be had for under $100.
The rest of the stuff you can add is merely commodity.
Mon Jan 28 21:09:40 2002
Mon Jan 28 22:54:53 2002
I'd gladly build my own if I could, and Mai could help us... once (as IG mentioned) their prices drop by an order of magnitude at least. Until then, I can only point at them and laugh. I think their executive officers went to the Steve Jobs School of Product Pricing.
Tue Jan 29 01:03:59 2002
but I can't afford the price of the 'dongle' that goes with it.
Of course, you certainly couldn't use OSX on one of these unless you did the darwin hack that allows you to install it on boards "too old to be supported" heh.
Tue Jan 29 02:53:45 2002
from HitScan posted at 8:03 pm on Jan. 28, 2002but I can't afford the price of the 'dongle' that goes with it.
LOL. That rules. ;)Of course, you certainly couldn't use OSX on one of these unless you did the darwin hack that allows you to install it on boards "too old to be supported" heh.
Yeah, part of my trepidation is that the power-user in me doesn't want to run OS X on anything less than a G4... but unfortunately, the only boxen that are even close to affordable to me would be a G3 machine.
Hooray Apple, you just lost another sale. :rolleyes:
And I can't buy the "Well, you're not part of Apple's target market anyway!" argument -- that's BS. Not only BS... it's elitism at its least charming. If/when Apple can sell a G4-based box at $700 (not counting monitor, that way I can give them some flexibility -- no wait, they don't want customers to have choice), then I would consider purchasing one. Until then, I guess I'll have to be content to be one of the "unwashed masses" basking in the glow of 2GHz boxen that cost less than $1000.
Now that I'm getting a DVD-RW drive and a load of work right off the bat, I'm seriously considering building a dual Athy rig. Price is, of course, an issue so I'm considering the best way to go about it (and find best prices).
On that tip, anyone know the best (or most recommended) dual-Athlon board to get? I've not hung out in CPU/Mobo in a while, and I'll be searching it soon. But if anyone wants to summarize, it would be greatly appreciated. ;) Because of budget constraints, I'll skip on-board SCSI. Another thing is the case -- in some brief searching I did, I saw places selling ATX cases with 400-500W PSUs; are these mandatory for dual Athlons? TIA...
Tue Jan 29 03:52:20 2002
Not only BS... it's elitism at its least charming.
As for the athlons, I still dearly, dearly want that Thunder K7, or a newer board with at least those specs. That beast was scrumptrelescent!
I think their executive officers went to the Steve Jobs School of Product Pricing.