Shoka
Prominent Member
I just picked up an (old) Mac for £50.
Its only a Power Mac G4 400 mhz, so pretty lame by todays standards. So its going to need a bit of work before its probably useable. Its my first foray into Mac so not to bothered about it being the newest, just want to get used to it before shelling out real money on a new one.
The guy I bought it off is going to do a clean install of OSX Tiger for me and supply me with the discs.
I'd be looking at putting a new hard drive in it, and adding a whole heap more RAM.
Can someone answer a few questions for me?
If I rip out the old hard drive and just shove in a new formatted one is it just a case of sticking the OSX disc in the drive and it installs itself, like installing a MS OS? or is there more I need to do? the same with the RAM do I just shove it in and it will reconize its there?
I went to the apple shop yesterday and got a mighty mouse and new keyboard, the keyboard says it needs OSX 10.4.10 I presume tiger is 10.4.0? can I get the updates to 10.4.10 from the apple website?
Can I expand using using PCI cards? as far as I know it does not have USB 2.0 ports (only 1.1 and firewire), however I have a spare USB 2.0 card, can I chuck it in and it will recognize it or do I need to get drivers etc first?
Same with a network card, I can't see why it wouldn't have one but just in case I have a spare one here to chuck in.
Also I know its old but can anyone recomend some essential software that I should have.
thanks
Its only a Power Mac G4 400 mhz, so pretty lame by todays standards. So its going to need a bit of work before its probably useable. Its my first foray into Mac so not to bothered about it being the newest, just want to get used to it before shelling out real money on a new one.
The guy I bought it off is going to do a clean install of OSX Tiger for me and supply me with the discs.
I'd be looking at putting a new hard drive in it, and adding a whole heap more RAM.
Can someone answer a few questions for me?
If I rip out the old hard drive and just shove in a new formatted one is it just a case of sticking the OSX disc in the drive and it installs itself, like installing a MS OS? or is there more I need to do? the same with the RAM do I just shove it in and it will reconize its there?
I went to the apple shop yesterday and got a mighty mouse and new keyboard, the keyboard says it needs OSX 10.4.10 I presume tiger is 10.4.0? can I get the updates to 10.4.10 from the apple website?
Can I expand using using PCI cards? as far as I know it does not have USB 2.0 ports (only 1.1 and firewire), however I have a spare USB 2.0 card, can I chuck it in and it will recognize it or do I need to get drivers etc first?
Same with a network card, I can't see why it wouldn't have one but just in case I have a spare one here to chuck in.
Also I know its old but can anyone recomend some essential software that I should have.
thanks