Have you ever wanted to own a Power Mac G4 Cube, but powered by Apple Silicon? Introducing the M4 Cubed, by Juicy Crumb Systems. The ‘M4 Cubed’ is a high quality durable plastic case for the M4 Mac mini, currently in kickstarter. . (Credit for above image: Luke Miani – Introducing M4 Cubed! – URL) […]
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Time for some new paste. It seems to be working well this time around, as none seemed to get pushed off either CPU die, and it can hold 48.5c steady idle on CPU A when on “highest”. The Power Mac G5 feels snappy again! And these heatsinks are pretty decent. . Why I repasted the […]
Did you know you can control your PowerPC Mac right from your iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad? Before it was pulled from the App Store, there was TouchMouse by Logitech. While the computer-end server apps for Windows and Mac OS X have continued to float around, the iOS IPA has all but seemingly disappeared. . […]
Have you ever heard of the app iAlarm from the early 2000s? There are a few Alarm Clock apps on the Garden from back in the day, but this app seems elusive anywhere I look for it online. There is no search term I believe I can use to uncover this anywhere, this seems to […]
Bluetooth 6.0 is the latest iteration of a wireless short-range data exchanging protocol standard, spanning way back to 1998. The latest version was 6.1, from May 7th, 2025. As of August 17th 2025, all of the latest Macs have Bluetooth 5.3. Devices with an M5 chip are likely to be the first crop of Apple […]
For years now, myself and many others have made attempts to upgrade soldered RAM on PowerPC-based Macs, without any success. As I’ve found from my vast experience doing such upgrades on Intel machines, just swapping the chips is not all that needs to be done. The system’s BootROM also has to be modified in such […]
Who ever said a Power Mac G5 couldn’t be productive in 2025? It’s still enough to create and save 16K Images in Photoshop CS4! 16K is a display resolution announced alongside the new HDMI 2.2 specification, containing pixel resolution of 15360 by 8640. . . That’s way, way more than what’s used even in billboards, […]
Back from the Low End Mac Mailbag is an interesting hardware experiment from a rising contributor in our FaceBook group, Architecture. Enjoy this interesting One Stop Systems P7R4 7 Slot PCI Expansion Unit – and how it works with a Beige Power Macintosh G3! Introduction “Testing an 13 slot PCI Expansion Chassis on a G3 […]
The eMac G4 was the last of any gumdrop-shaped Macs with a CRT display, feeling like a direct spiritual successor to the iMac G3 versus the iMac G4 taking on a wholly new form factor. These days finding an eMac feels more challenging than say 10-15 years ago, when those seemingly littered the marketplace for […]
For the first time ever in the 5 years of the RAID0 array up and running on the Dual 2.0 Power Mac G5.. I ran into a file system/file corruption error. Fortunately, I had the array backed up so I had it back up and running within less than a day. R/W speeds are the […]
This day in age, a certain recent OS started shipping with it’s own built-in password manager app – and as it turns out, there’s been a password manager app out for PowerPC for a little while! Version 3.5.15 was out in 2010, so this app certainly falls into the category of abandonware. Password managers aren’t […]
Hardware virtualization uses a hypervisor to create virtual machines that run directly on physical hardware, allowing near-native performance. Emulation, on the other hand, imitates hardware entirely in software, enabling the execution of programs designed for different architectures but with significant performance overhead. With this in mind, we can imagine how certain operating systems should or […]
Swapping out an optical drive for a hard disk drive to gain extra storage is a sensible way to upgrade your ‘Book if you’re not at all using optical media anymore. Especially if the benefits of storing a ton of stuff on local storage far outweighs the benefits of keeping a SuperDrive or Combo Drive […]
As was said in the 2021 article by Dan: “Using your TV as a display for your Mac (or any computer really) has taken a lot of twists and turns over the years. Each era as display technology has evolved has seen significant progression, but not until recently has TV technology had the right mix […]
Certain iMacs from the early 2010s and late 2000s have an MXM GPU slot inside them, allowing for the graphics card to be replaced or upgraded. All 27″ and 21.5″ 2009 – 2011 iMacs have an MXM 3.0 slot, with the exception of the late 2009 21.5″ iMac with the base GeForce 9400m GPU. MXM […]
This may be old news to some, but I totally forgot about it until I found out about it (again)! If you have a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad in Leopard on a PowerPC Mac, you can enable momentum scrolling just like an Intel Mac in two easy steps. . To enable natural scrolling on […]
Ah, the elusive method of booting on a PowerPC Mac: USB. For far too long it’s been said it’s not doable, or the results have been hit-or-miss, or the answer hasn’t been straightforward at all. Well today, there’s a surefire way to boot USB on PowerPC Macs – all thanks to DistroHopper39B from MacRumors. While […]