Back with us today is Greg Thompson with his update. Day 4 Starting to enjoy actually using this PPC every day. Checking email and Facebook is a daily routine using the built in email client and ten4fox. I ran geekbench just for the fun of it and got the score in the provided screen shot. … Read more
For those of you participating in the PPC Challenge (or just using your PPC Macs daily), check out this resource: http://www.powerpcsoftware.com/
Garrett Green is joining us today with his account of the challenge so far. I went to sleep right after the broadcast and only used my G5 once the next day to check Twitter in the morning. I was not home the rest of the day, so I used my phone. As of today: My … Read more
We continue with Greg Thompson’s account of the challenge. Day 2 Got up this morning and got on the G5 again. Checked email using OSX’s email client. Sent my day 1 report to Jay via the same email client. Email and word processing is a simple task for this machine. I was also playing music … Read more
The PPC Challenge is officially underway and today we have Mac Yak’s Greg Thompson telling us a little about his experience so far. Day 1 Right after doing the Mac Yak stream I got onto my Power Mac G5 to work on. First thing I did was fire up Facebook in Safari and it worked … Read more
The concept is simple, for one week switch to PPC and do all of your computing on it. Of course your job may require Intel etc so do as much as you can when you can. The challenge is to stick with PPC, don’t run right back to your Intel when a website doesn’t load … Read more
Well, the 68k PPC Challenge is over for another year, and we saw some great vintage Apple hardware doing some amazing things. This once again proves that the vintage hardware we all love can still prove useful and fun. The great thing about these challenges is we all get to dust off machines that we … Read more
Report from: Jay March 4th, 2019 Day 4 of the Classic Mac OS Challenge went very smooth. The new hard drive is performing as expected and the iMac is finally behaving as it should. I spent most of my time working on my website and might even make this my default web work rig! Wow … Read more
Report from: Jay March 2nd & 3rd, 2019 Saturday I got some writing down but the fact that Norton FileSaver kept nagging me didn’t sit right with me. I’ve used this software forever and it has never let me down so there must be something going on. Scanned the whole drive again, this time with … Read more
Report from: Jay March 1st, 2019 Spent most of the day out and about but once I got home it was upgrade and troubleshooting time. Greg T. was kind enough to send me 512MB of RAM for free. Along with the 512MB I had I could max this thing out at 1GB. Also ready were … Read more