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The 1 GHz 15" version of the Titanium PowerBook G4 is the last, and fastest, PowerBook which could natively run Mac OS 9 (version 9.2.2)
1) The PowerBook G4/1.0 17" (Al) features a 1.0 GHz PowerPC 7455 (G4) processor with the AltiVec "Velocity Engine" vector processing unit, 256k on chip level 2 cache, and 1.0 MB level 3 cache2) NVIDIA GeForce4 440 graphics with 64 MB of DDR SDRAM in an attractive aluminum alloy case with a 17" widescreen TFT display (1440x900 resolution)3) System Bus Speed: 167 MHz, Cache Bus Speed: 1.0 GHz (Built-in) 256 L2, 1 MB L34) PC2700 DDR SDRAM (Min. RAM Speed: 333 MHz), 2 GB Max
*** UPDATE: Ethernet WORKS!!!!... Go to "Chooser" Make "AppleTalk" Active then Inactive... this stump starts the TCP/IP and it then works 100%... Local Ping Works and Insternet Browsers are all OK
After you clear the message, everything runs perfectly... including graphics acceleration !
I mistakenly bought an 867 Aluminum Powerbook G4 instead of the Ti Has anyone gotten the wireless working on it? Does OS9 even work with wireless? If I can't get that working, I'm screwed. Having wireless in OS9 was the entire point of buying the thing. I hate losing money.EDIT: the curse of the G4 will never end, I swear. DH knows about the hell I went through a few years back trying to get a 1.25ghz MDD to work. I spent weeks on it and it was always unstable no matter what. My fingers and knuckles were so bloody from tearing shit out of it that it was unforgivable. I eventually trashed it and bought another, exact duplicate off Ebay, and guess what? It was DOA and wouldn't even power up. I got so sick of it that I swore off G4s and started using 9600s (which have never once failed me to this day!).Ok, so I have this other cheap 867 G4 QS I bought last year to see if my curse was over. Well, I just booted it up and it's got a time/network error so it probably needs a new battery, it says that there's some kind of weird memory issue going when OS9 starts up, sometimes it makes weird beeping and flashing, the freakin' startup chime isn't a chime half the time and is nothing but a long burst of nasty white noise/distortion, and sometimes it just hangs and won't boot up at all.....and now I have a POS Aluminum Powerbook that I'm not even gonna use because the wireless won't work in it among other things.Money down the drain constantly, and nothing but headaches on ALL G4 machines. It never ends! PS: I do have a dual cpu QS machine that DH gave me, but I need to try it. If I boot it up and it has problems too, I'm probably going to kill myself. I'd rather an OS9 laptop more than anything right now but funds are running low. And so is my luck and tolerance.
EDIT: the curse of the G4 will never end, I swear. DH knows about the hell I went through a few years back trying to get a 1.25ghz MDD to work. I spent weeks on it and it was always unstable no matter what. My fingers and knuckles were so bloody from tearing shit out of it that it was unforgivable.
I eventually trashed it and bought another, exact duplicate off Ebay, and guess what? It was DOA and wouldn't even power up.
I mistakenly bought an 867 Aluminum Powerbook G4 instead of the Ti Has anyone gotten the wireless working on it? Does OS9 even work with wireless? If I can't get that working, I'm screwed. Having wireless in OS9 was the entire point of buying the thing. I hate losing money.
CardSlot (Cardbus) also appears to be "Dead"
No (Ethernet) upon Restart it is "Dead" again Also Stuck at 10mb and Half Duplex" very weird when it works.CardSlot (Cardbus) also appears to be "Dead"
System Profiler writes: ID406, Powerbook 5,2 serial V73384P2NRVand one model of that series came with ATI instead of Nvidea graphics.
The Absolute Best Laptop that will Boot natively to Mac OS 9.2.2Apple PowerBook G4 1.0 Ghz 17" AluminumModel M8793LL/A - PowerBook5,1 - A1013 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------OK ready to Boot ! I am so excited I can barely take it... WTF, what is this crap.... is this error real or an anomaly from booting to OS 9 ?-----------------------------------------------------------------------------So, We now boot to an external FW hard drive that has OS X and see about the cache memory, remember this is NOT the main system memory, but memory on the logic board that cannot be changed by the user.Hmmm.... no error pop up, but we notice NO L3 Cache is listed (even in OS X)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------So ebay strikes again... we run a diags and indeed the cache fails diagnostics and we remove the SSD and put it in Unit 2. Unit 1 boots to OS9, but the bad cache will slow down the DAW speed tests I want to do later [/size]
Hi, I have a 17" 1Ghz PB G4 and a 15" 1.67Ghz PB G4 that I would like to run OS 9 on, but I can´t download the fixed ISOs. Not allowed because of capacity/no premium account. Are these ISOs available anywhere else?
Ninester and I were just checking this mSATA + adapter scenario out today and considering same for a Mac mini. After viewing this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T35isLn-OhQ and noting the “doesn’t work” report in the comments, coupled with the fact that there was no follow-up video of the thing actually working… well, kinda-sorta nixxed the idea. BUT, do please report your success as the OWC, I assume 44 pin IDE SSDs - - (yes Mr. Happy, I remember) are a bit more expensive… and quite possibly… slower.
So I decided to get the best 44 pins to mSATA adapter + a 240 mSATA drive. Total 33 Euros for the adaptor + 57 for the mSATA.
Interesting, 110. Moved comments/response to General Hardwarehttp://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,4435.msg31470/topicseen.html#new
When booting from the os9 unsupported CD for the first time on my FW800 1.42 DP I got the same message you did about there being a problem with the cache, followed by no longer having any L3 cache under OS X. It definitely did work before, and I'm extremely hesitant to try on my second FW800 1.42 DP. On my single 1.0 FW400 model (which is supported) the unsupported disk does not produce this error. The second USB device error seems to be in regards to the bluetooth controller, and can be ignored safely. Have you had any luck reviving your L3 Cache? PRAM reset hasn't done the trick. Plenty more to try... Hopefully OS9 compatibility doesn't require a permanent sacrifice of L3 Cache...
Performance/Hardware Test (Updates 08/11/2017)3) QuickBench Test Results
My mSATA disk specs in Amperes are even better than suspect. DC +3.3 450 mA
Don’t know if PT5 used 1.92 or 2.1 to initialize his Zheino.
Would a SCSI CARD work with this setup ?