Been using Nord for years now they’re great!

U when u say that's stock but u are booting from an ssd be like "it's stock officer, i swear"😂😂😂

Hah, I was doing same thing with my G4 MDD. Maxed the ram, swapped in a flashed BIOS ATI card (forget which one but it was way better than you could get from Apple). I would have loved to have upgraded the processor too, but I just got tired of sinking money into it when there was already much better for cheaper out there. It did play a mean game of Doom 3 though!

@@FinalManaTrigger at a college LAN party we had a Quake 4 benchmark shootout. Let's just say the G4+9800Pro got trounced by my friends' Athlon64 and new Intel Core systems... By a lot... By a whole lot.

@@agizm0 The ports back during that time weren’t very good. Almost like emulation.

@@agizm0 Sorry to hear that.

@@Revenant_Knight The ports now aren't very good. Rebooting into Windows on a Mac gives miles better performance, on the same hardware. Games that run a bit stuttery on macOS run like silk in Windows. I don't know about Quake 4, but Quake 3 had an excellent, multi-processor aware version on OS X. But obviously any G4 would get hammered by an Athlon64 or Core CPU, especially as they'd likely have an extra GHz of clock speed. The G4's 167MHz bus couldn't even take advantage of DDR RAM.

Computers (Macs in particular) were also very expensive, so it made more sense to upgrade rather than just replace. That powerbook 540c that he held up cost about $4000 when it came out in 1994, or nearly $8000 in today's money.

Oh interesting, I didn't know that!

imo i would rather see the g3 clamshell

Friends, friends! We can Linux all the things

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For real, i saw that and just went "Huh... never knew"

People wouldn't put up with it if there were a competent, viable competitor that wasn't equally as bad. Like, if you want a good Windows machine today, with the kind of low-bloat out of box experience you get on a mac, you basically have to buy a Surface. A completely unrepairable Surface. My last Windows PC was a HP tablet that cost me literally as much as a similarly specced Mac would have at the time, 2015, and the build quality was appalling. I treat my computers well, but my HP Spectre X2 literally had buttons falling out of the chassis, and the stand had gotten sloppy within six months. Further, despite using USB C to charge, it wasn't PD compliant. Their USB C charger had a 19V mode, and a PD compliant charger wouldn't work in it, so you were stuck with their brick only. HP are supposed to be one of the good ones, the big corporate players. I would have bought a Lenovo, but Lenovo in Australia basically only sells to corporate purchasing departments. If you want a retail Lenovo here, you're paying Thinkpad prices for their budget Ideapad line. Since getting my M1 Air, I've noticed small touches to the hardware that I didn't know _COULD_ be good. Like, until now, I've never used a trackpad that didn't make me immediately want to plug in a mouse, and in Windows, I've never seen multitouch gestures that actually worked. I didn't know laptop speakers could be good on anything but a 4kg gaming laptop, but on the M1 Air, they're impressive, _and they face UP_ which shouldn't be so rare, but it is. Frankly, Apple can get as draconian as they want in their control of the hardware we buy, and I'm probably going to keep buying Apple gear because there just isn't good competition for them. The price isn't even as outrageous as it used to be. I mean, sure, there's no $800 laptop option. I'd like to see them revive the iBook branding. I wouldn't mind a lower res screen and a plastic case if I could get a Mac laptop under nine hundred dollarydoos (the official name of the Australian currency), but if someone is looking at a $1000-1500 HP, there are very few reasons for them not to consider a Mac instead.

@@NoobixCube speaking as someone that's basically built their own desktops and builds and such, sometimes for specific purposes, the big OEMs { Hp, Dell, Lenovo } were _never good._ As someone that primarily is in it for the games, they're all non-starters. Too much of it being bastardized proprietary junk and stuffed into the worst environments to ensure they only survive past an arbitrary 90 day warranty and no more. Hard to appreciate anything about Apple now when it feels like the M1 route was only selected specifically to spite the Hackintosh movement, that was making better builds for less money than what Apple itself was offering officially. Whether it is or not isn't the point; it's the fact that given the timing and everything else going on, it _feels_ as if Apple is only going with ARM just to kill off the ability to have any kind of third party Macintosh. I'm already angry with apple about the iphone making other phone makers basically ape them harder and harder, eliminating all the good android and windows phone designs. Apparently phone makers think everyone can just drop *two thousand dollars a month on a phone* and be happy. Meanwhile I'm stuck with my v20 because nothing newer can let me replace the battery without committing to open heart surgery skills to do. For my usage and needs, I'm not exaggerating when I say I need a phone that can actually do 10+ hours of screen on. When the modern flagship phone can't even surpass four without whinging for a charger, that's actually getting in the way of a typical work day for me. Back on point, though... The M1 was designed to be a disposable notebook, at premium notebook pricing. And that's what I find offensive. Even now I still have project builds for say, running Windows 9x or xp to run games of those eras at optimal fidelity and basically "max all the settings without even trying"; I wouldn't be able to do that with Apple even if I wanted to. It's like Apple's business methods from the beginning are counter to that.

That would be pretty wild to see! I never knew that Apple was boasting that "fact". I second this challenge Sean!

I did it with 5, but the Mac ran out of RAM and froze! 🤣

@@Mac84 I just found the livestream where you did that, and holy moly is it awesome!

I've seen one or two on ebay, but they're always "damaged/faulty" but still $700+ because **RARE**

Oh no!

No, sadly. These are already basically Quadra 630 boards with PPC upgrades grafted on, and the ROM is installed on the L2 cache card on most of these models (except for some of the later 100 or 120MHz versions) so there's nowhere to install a CPU upgrade. A logic board swap isn't hard, though: just modify the harness slightly (cut a particular ground wire and replace it with +3.3V to the logic board) and it'll slide right in.

patience?

What CPU is installed in your AM3+ motherboard, and which AM3+ motherboard is it?

@@raspberry1440kb I forget the model of Asus board it is. But the Amd is the FX-8350.

There was a version of quake for Classic OS, also a version of Shadow Warrior was ported over as well.

I actually had this exact Sonnet G3/400 upgrade for my 6500 back in the 90s. It was a nice improvement but it wasn't as fast as an actual G3 machine. I eventually replaced it with a Dual 533 MHz G4 PowerMac. Sometimes I wish I hadn't gotten rid of those machines and that upgrade...

Really?!

@@ActionRetro yes I saw a picture of it . It's not for the main Mac you were featuring in this video it's fir the other umaxx