So I thought I would bring the possibility to the attention of the curious ghacks readers before they toss out those old Macs to make room for other projects. On top of that I had the whole of the Linux catalog of software at my disposal.Īnd now I am faced with reviving an aging eMac in the same way. I really felt like I was using a much newer laptop. I had no restore disk, so I went ahead and used a PowerPC Port of 12.04 for PPC.
#Mac os for macbook g4 install#
With Linux on the machine it felt much more powerful than it should have. The version I used on the laptop was Ubuntu. Everything I’ve read suggests that installing MorphOS on a G4 Mac mini is the easiest route. Hi I've got a Power Mac G4 MDD (Dual 1.0ghz, 2GB RAM, fuckton o' harddrives and Radeon 9000 Pro AGP) and Tiger decided it hated life, so I had to format it and install a new OS. The Mac in question was an old G3 800 Mhz iBook. If you’re using an older Mac (from 2010 or. Your Mac will boot into the recovery partition. Shut down your Mac, turn it on while holding down Command+R. Your Mac’s Recovery Mode is a treasure trove of useful tools, and it’s the easiest way to wipe your computer and start from scratch. But after a few OS X updates I realized it wasn't the processor but the version of OS X that was placed on it. Step One: Boot From Recovery Mode, or an Installer. At first I attributed it to the processor speed. I shouldn't have to even type the fact that the machine ran very slowly. The machine had a Gig of ram along with the G3 900 Mhz processor. When I received it it had the latest version of OS X it would support. Within the last year I purchased an older eMac which had a 900 Mhz processor. One of the issues with trying to use those older Macs is that they do not meet the requirements of newer versions of OS X.
There are, and they will make that old machine seem like it's younger and snappier than it ever did. Do you have an old Mac G3 or G4 lying around doing nothing? Did you know that old dinosaur could make a great server or desktop with the help of everyone's favorite open source operating system Linux? Most people don't realize there are Linux ports for PPC.