What do with a PPC Mac Mini

[TheComputerguy]

Any suggestions?

 

[valve1138]

Fish Tank?

 

[TheComputerguy]

it's a thought.

 

[AVT]

Craigslist

 

[cv643d]

There is a second hand market for PPC Mac mini as the Amiga operating system clone MorphOS is ported to Mac Mini PPC.

http://www.morphos.de

Trial is free to download.

 

[shoota]

What's so special about this morphos?

 

[Javelin3o4]

 

[KENNYB]

LOL... post that in the funny picture thread in GenMay...

And I was going to suggest shooting the things. I was a fool!

 

[munkle]

put a mini itx pc in it?

 

[Billz]

Sell it to me? I've been looking at picking one up to play with

 

[ColdStoner]

kill it with fire...

 

[Centauri]

Ditto on 'sell it'. Many people like them, particularly for legacy software.

 

[dashpuppy]

I have one too, it's been sitting in the closet for the last year doing NOTHING..

 

[Damar]

If I wasn't out of work still I'd look to snag one from someone to use when I don't need the full PC powered up.

They are good little machines really, just a PITA to pop open without a putty knife.

 

[450]

I have one too, it's been sitting in the closet for the last year doing NOTHING..

Sell it!

 

[Damar]

Sell it!

Or donate to someone who's out of work and needs a hobby item to mess with.

Or sell cheap to said person.......just sayin, its an option LOL.

 

[conscript]

will it blend?

 

[lilfiend]

ill take it for $15 shipped

 

[mngl1500]

Well to bad that morph os will not run on my 12" Powerbook G4 since that mostly sits in a drawer since I bought a netbook.

I still use my G4 mini hooked up to the tv upstairs, and the Apple TV2 is hooked up to the tv downstairs.

 

[dashpuppy]

Sell it!

Probably will

 

[illli]

mod it

 

[dashpuppy]

mod it

mod it to what ? I tried using xbmc on it but playing certain movies were REALLY horrible LOL!!

It's a paper weight i guess.

 

[DeChache]

Run Linux on it ?? We have some old xserves running Debian

http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/

 

[No1nfoProvided]

Why not use it as an HTPC?

 

[dashpuppy]

Run Linux on it ?? We have some old xserves running Debian

http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/

maxes out at 1gig ddr400 so slow.

Why not use it as an HTPC?

read above, htpc on these machines is so slow..

 

[DeChache]

maxes out at 1gig ddr400 so slow.

Don't run a GUI 1 gig is more than enough ram for most things in Debian

 

[illli]

It's a paper weight i guess.

i was thinking more like ripping out the guts, replacing with more up to date parts, but keeping the exterior the same.

 

[vage]

I'm in the same boat kinda, I have an old 15 inch powerbook G4, no idea what to do with it, but I KNOW there has to be a use for it!

 

[Athelstan]

I'm in the same boat kinda, I have an old 15 inch powerbook G4, no idea what to do with it, but I KNOW there has to be a use for it!

I had a closet full of old computer parts thinking the same thing... I donated it all to a local non-profit group that teaches kids how to fix computers. If you don't use it for a year you'll never use it at all.

 

[swatbat]

I'm in the same boat kinda, I have an old 15 inch powerbook G4, no idea what to do with it, but I KNOW there has to be a use for it!

Make a bad ass picture frame. I use to have a ibook I turned into one.