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 ...
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 ...
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MorphOS: A Modern Operating System For PowerPC
In a recent video, [Michael MJD] decided to give MorphOS 3.17 a shot on a Mac G4 Cube ... that ended [Michael]’s look at this OS. What do you run on your PPC-based machines, and have you ...
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The Power Mac G4 Line
For almost five years, the heart of the Power Mac was the PowerPC G4 chip ... Apple boasted that Mac OS X was built for multi-processor systems, and that the G4 was actually faster than the Pentium ...
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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 ... At the heart of this new Mac was the PowerPC G5 ...
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Apple M4 revitalizes decades-old iMac G4 — out with the PowerPC chip, in with the new Apple Silicon
That was already a massive step into modernity, remembering that the iMac G4 was launched during the Mac OS 9 and X crossover era. The Dock Light Modboard (20-inch) from Juicy Crumb Systems was ...