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 ...

The Power Mac G4 Cube’s beautiful design couldn’t offset the high price tag, which, consequently, led to its marketplace ...

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 ...

Apple used to be more experimental with Mac designs, whether out of necessity or genuine interest. Sometimes this succeeded, as in the case of the iMac G4, but there were also notable failures ...

A software developer has proven it is possible to run a modern LLM on old hardware like a 2005 PowerBook G4, albeit nowhere near ... project to run on a PowerPC Mac. This latter point involved ...

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 ...

detailed how he managed to run generative AI on an old PowerBook G4. While hardware requirements for large language models (LLMs) are typically high, this particular PowerBook G4 model from 2005 ...