A software developer has proven it is possible to run a modern LLM on old hardware like a 2005 PowerBook G4, albeit nowhere ...

For almost five years, the heart of the Power Mac was the PowerPC G4 chip. Starting in 1999 it clocked at just 350 MHz, but by the time the Power Mac G4 line was retired, a tower with dual 1.42 GHz ...

Christophe Meneboeuf asks "Is the Mac Mini G4 the best classic Macintosh for retro-gaming?" It being among the last pre-Intel machines that didn't come with a built-in display or in a chassis the ...

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 ...

In a blog post this week, software engineer Andrew Rossignol (my brother!) detailed how he managed to run generative AI on an ...

The images below detail steps installing a Sonnet Technologies Encore/ST G4 Duet in a Power Macintosh G4 originally shipped from Apple with dual 800 MHz processors. (The model is commonly called a ...

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 ...

The Mac Mini motherboard was then prepped to install in the iMac’s dome-shaped housing; notably, the entire board is smaller than the stock iMac G4’s hard drive. It still took plenty of ...

Molecular biologists using Apple computers can receive a speed boost if they use an optimized version of BLAST and the new Mac operating system OS X on a Macintosh G4. The new version of BLAST, called ...