EDF Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 (edited) How's it going? I have an older system that is only used for recording with Pro Tools. I want to get online with it but I don't know where to start. Where I live has free wifi. Where can I find out what I need to start getting online with it? Thanks in advance. EDIT: I meant to say Power Mac G4 Edited August 25, 2009 by EDF587 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Edwardo Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Firstly if you want to use Wifi, you need to know if the machine has and Airport card. If it does, you should see the wifi indicator at the top right in the toolbar. If not, you'd either have to grab an old airport card from eBay (something like this) or hook it up with an ethernet cable. If you can find out which version of the G4 powermac it is, that would help (here is an index of every model) but generally speaking, it should be fine for browsing and everyday internet use. What version of OS X are you running on it? I'd suggest installing Tiger (or maybe Leopard, but may not run as fast) and install all of the security updates etc. Once you have all of that, you're good to go really! I had an old iMac G4 800Mhz for a while this year, and it ran great with Tiger installed, used for office stuff, web browsing and music. Hope this helps :) Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Gil Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 First of all, you need a WiFi card. Then you should have a recent OS version. My old G4 ran Tiger well with 1.25GB of RAM. Panther should be OK too. What are you running there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertigosity Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 10.5 (Leopard?) has a 867mhz requirement, even for G4s, but that can be bypassed by issuing a few clever commands to OpenFirmware. It performs reasonably well, if you've got plenty of RAM (I've got a 400mhz G4 that I picked up to play with, I dropped 1GB into it), and can run pretty much anything available for PPC either exclusively or as a universal binary. Edit: http://lowendmac.com/osx/leopard/openfirmware.html, for anyone who's interested in running Leopard on older G4s. Also, it's 867, not 666 :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicane-UK Veteran Posted September 1, 2009 Veteran Share Posted September 1, 2009 Tiger is still a very decent OS and will run great on an old G3... go for it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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