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Apple M4 revitalizes decades-old iMac G4 — out with the PowerPC chip, in with the new Apple Silicon
A retro tech enthusiast has revitalized a classic Apple iMac G4 ‘lampshade’ computer with a state-of-the-art M4 injection. Shoehorning one of the new Mac Mini M4 computers into this classic ...
A Powerbook G4 is barely fast enough to run a large language model
A software developer has proven it is possible to run a modern LLM on old hardware like a 2005 PowerBook G4, albeit nowhere ...
The 5 coolest-looking Macs you probably haven't heard of
If you encounter one of the Macs below in the wild, what you're really seeing is an abandoned evolutionary branch. The ...
Software Engineer Runs Generative AI on 20-Year-Old PowerBook G4
In a blog post this week, software engineer Andrew Rossignol (my brother!) detailed how he managed to run generative AI on an ...
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The 8 Best Looking Apple Computers Ever Designed
The G4 Cube was also a total revolution in one important aspect -- it was one of the very first computers to be passively cooled. This is where the foundations of the modern Mac mini were laid ...
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The In-Between Macs
By the end of 1999, the PCI Graphics model was phased out, making it the shortest-lived computers modern Apple has ever sold. This is one of those Apple projects that very clearly existed because ...
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The Mighty Power Mac G5
Last month, we looked at the Power Mac G4 line, a series of computers that defined the professional workstation for OS X users for many years. In June 2003 — 15 years ago this month — Steve Jobs took ...