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DrNo7

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Re: What did you do with your PowerPC Mac today?
« Reply #120 on: April 17, 2026, 10:29:13 PM »

Not quite an action done with OS9 but still with my PPC Mac: is it just me or the design team at Apple was nostalgic of the PPC Alu era when they designed the Apple Silicon line ?  -afro-
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Wolfenx666

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Re: What did you do with your PowerPC Mac today?
« Reply #121 on: April 20, 2026, 01:03:56 PM »

I use my 1,25 GHz Dual G4 MDD as my main machine for Reason with OS9. The Mac is still a important part of my modern Logic Pro studio setup  8)
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blazer1878

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Re: What did you do with your PowerPC Mac today?
« Reply #122 on: April 20, 2026, 01:28:33 PM »

used it to burn mackintosh dvd for tiger to use on asus netbook, my ibook g4 is only mac i have with working dvd drive dust filter
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BoloTied

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Re: What did you do with your PowerPC Mac today?
« Reply #123 on: April 23, 2026, 03:52:25 PM »

I used Appleworks 6 on my clamshell indigo iBook to write up a business proposal, then printed to PDF. There's far fewer distractions without any social media apps running!
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jolee

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Re: What did you do with your PowerPC Mac today?
« Reply #124 on: Yesterday at 03:40:07 PM »

I booted up my mac mini for the first time and begun tinkering with it today! this is all pretty nostalgic for me. Though I launched EV override and ran into some awful sound issues which seem to be pretty normal for  OS9 on a mac mini so...aint all roses!
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jojo2k

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Re: What did you do with your PowerPC Mac today?
« Reply #125 on: Today at 03:46:49 PM »

I inherited a sizable CD collection and got three different computers ripping CDs to speed up the process, and my PowerBook G3 was chugging along, ripping those files at 192 kb/s or whatever it is. Glad iTunes 1 or 2 even goes that high, that's about my minimum for mp3 crunchiness lol. (I'm no audiophile, I think it sounds fine.)

Funnily - and probably not surprisingly - the resulting mp3 files from the PowerBook were a lot easier to work with after transferring it all to my main computer where I store my music, compared to another (I think 2010?) MacBook I had ripping at the same time, with newer iTunes. The MacBook defaulted to some weird encoding option that literally every other computer I had seemed to hate. iTunes has been ruining my life since the 2000s, never thought it would attack again even in 2026... iTunes about version 4 up has got to be the most annoying software ever written.
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