iMac G4 Exploration Sensation - Krazy Ken's Tech Misadventures
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- Someone gave Krazy Ken an iMac G4, and it is the SLOWEST COMPUTER he's ever used. Watch him explore the Mac, the accessories, the software, and everything else… at the speed of molasses.
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P.S. enjoy this slooooow Mac ; )
Computer Clan un vídeo fantástico como siempre Ken loko! 😜
(---GREAT video as always Krazy Ken!--)
Cheers!
-H.B.
TheNews1990 I’m fairly certain that’s iChat. It happens to have the AIM logo in it, but I think it’s iChat. I’ll double check.
Meshach Lovelace no, but I wouldn’t want to. : p
@@ComputerClan 20:07 mobol meee
Do u know how to get iPhoto and iMovie I have a iMac g4 running 10.4.11
- iClean
- Norton SystemWorks
And you're wondering why it's so slow?
I believe those start when in desktop already, not when booting, I think more a combination of bad software and the fact that we are used to SSD now.
@@GlennVandeuren you missed the joke. also norton was notoriously terrible and slows down your PC even to this day on an SSD.
@@NonsensicalSpudz I know Norton is slow, that's why I never use it, doesn't change the fact the slow startup time ...
@@GlennVandeuren the thing is if you don't just buy the cheapest piece of crap hdd instead you pay a little more than 15 bucks you can actually get one with actually ok speeds till now i only used hdds and its not even near as bad as everyone makes it out to be
@@oofingberg Switch to ssd, believe me...
Damn, I can't believe I just watched 40 minutes of a guy getting mad at a beachball.
A+ content, subscribed.
Omg didn't realize this was 40 mins, it passed so quickly. Also, it's quite funny how I watch people playing on those iMacs when I have 2 of them lol
@@lceWing10 I do, lol
I last 2 minutes, calmly. Then, I reset!
When you started talking louder, I no joke thought "Shhh! Why are you talking so loudly!? You'll wake the guards!" XD
XD
Please, I'm begging you, stop typing XD in caps aaa
XD
Clearly he is dummy thicc and the clapping noise already woke them up
@@Raven-fu1zz what in the absolute cursed frick did you just say
'take a shot every time the beach-ball shows up'
No. I want to live thank you very much.
Me too
do milk instead
@@ComputerClan Challenge accepted
If it took forever DESTROY IT PUT MILK AND THROW IT FROM THE WINDOW AND IN TRASH
@linus meth tips you say that like it’s a bad thing
My favorite "vintage" Mac OS X version is Snow Leopard because it was the last version of macOS to have the classic Aqua scrollbars, as well as other retro design elements.
Also, the dock is AMAZING
Also the last version with Rosetta, if you want to run older PowerPC apps.
That dock was also added to iOS 4
Yes! I love 10.6. ❤️I stuck with it for so long that I completely missed 10.7 and 10.8. I’ve been on 10.13 now for a while. Mac OS X upgrades just aren’t as exciting as they used to be.
And the best part
The intro video!!!!!!
Dudududu dududu
My old 2008 white MacBook still has Snow Leopard on it. Unfortunately, SL was the last version of OS X where Apple let you customize just about anything on your Mac software-wise. I still have a bunch of old Dock skins, icon skins, and custom themes from DeviantArt on my MacBook.
This was actually my families first Apple computer, we bought it in 2002 and we've had it since. I installed Lubuntu on it for PowerPC and it's been sitting around since as a "backup" computer, even though a raspberry pi is so much faster, I keep it around because it reminds me a lot of my childhood
I have a Raspberry Pi 3B running a dual-boot of Raspbian and Lakka, and I love it!
i have an original pi model b. useful if i mess stuff up on my other linux computer.
*imac boots*
*ken falls down of chair*
1000mins later
*mac loads*
ken:Hurray
*mac loads the dock...*
I had one iMac G4 for the past 10 years until I sold it last month. It is a wonderful machine, video editing with iMovie HD and a FireWire camcorder seemed like made for each other, it works brilliantly. Your video bring me back fond memories of it, thank you! Greetings from Brazil!
Thanks for watching, and for writing : )
KKkkkkkk@@youtubeisgarbage900
20:13 I Laughed out loud so hard when I first saw that!!!😆
Me too it was like a jump scare it scared the crap out of me and i fell of my chair
I Spit Out My Milk I Got
saniTy KeyCar Why did you capitalize everything?
My Jaw Freezes
IT WAS SO F(beep)ING LOUD
Not once have you opened the system monitor and its killing me.
Wut
Tech Dude when your name is Tech Dude but you don’t know what Activity Monitor is 😂
@@thebassist122 He changed it to Tech Kid, because he's not yet an adult in this tech world.
@@Samuel_Rioux now it’s Star Platinum Requiem over Heaven.
@@sillyaioli Basically it's the macOS equivalent of Task Manager
Oh, man, those Apple branded DVD-R discs! I remember at the time I had a PC with a DVD-R drive, but I would buy the Apple DVD-R discs, because they were cheaper than any other! Five pack of Apple DVD-R were $15, in individual jewel cases, while a spindle of 20 of whatever other brand were $100 at CompUSA/Best Buy/Fry's/etc. Insane case of an Apple-branded accessory was cheaper by quite a bit than the "generic."
Oh man, back when Apple priced their products fairly. 15 dollars for a pack of DVD discs sounds like an awesome deal back then.
Funnily enough, the USB-C to 3.5mm adapter for the iPad Pro is cheaper than most of the off-brand ones on Amazon, and is universal. I needed one for my Dell laptop, since Realtek drivers are utter garbage, and I swear the Apple adapter sounds better than the stock audio hardware in both the laptop and my Nokia 6.2, while also enabling the use of headset controls, which the laptop does not support with the built in hardware
My favorite vintage Apple operating system (excluding Mac OS 9) is 100%, hands-down good old Mac OS X Tiger. It was fast, pretty good looking, and was the last to support Classic Mode on PowerPC Macs. Tiger was awesome
Tiger is good. I have a soft spot for it because that was the first version of Mac OS X I ever used.
Still use an iBook G4 running Tiger on occasion. Love the classic Aqua design, and the 10.0-10.6 scrollbars are seriously beautiful.
Never got to use a Mac in that era, but I really like the OS 9 aesthetic. Great video!
you are the best for NO ADS on a 40 minute video.
Upgrade to Tiger that intro is beautiful. I love that intro. I go crazy for it.
I love that intro, too.
Computer Clan I presume the spotlight on the welcome was to highlight the new search functions in Mac OS
Plainapple287 my g4 is on leopard and is slow but not that slow
Ah yes, the old startup chime. Love it! It was also interesting to see the backlight warming up as the computer booted; I was skipping ahead in the video during the boot-up as the backlight noticeably gained intensity throughout the process.
My grandpa used his sunflower g4 until about 5 years ago when we bought him a new iMac. He still gets on it sometimes to look at old stuff he never transferred off it. Despite the rarity of these they were good computers.
Now rename the series to Krazy Ken Tech Flicking and beach balling.
Love the iMac G4! I got mine in the original box, manuals, pro speakers, pro mouse, and disgusting yellowed keyboard for $20!
HAHHAHAHAH I LOST IT ON THE DVD PART
Favorite Jaguar bit is it sometimes says "Welcome to Macintosh." in the boot progress box
Aqua was the most beautiful OS X interface.
I wish there was a animated version of this series But its like whats going on behind the camera. That would be AWSOME!
I’ve thought of that, too! May have to contract an animator some day...
I have a fully loaded 'Sunflower' iMac G4, with a full compliment of RAM, 10.5.8 OS and I've just brought it down from the attic yesterday morning. It fired right up, and launched Pages effortlessly. While it might not be as fast as a Raspberry Pi, it's faster than your average Chromebook, which I was considering buying. I'm pretty sure I here's no spyware on this vintage iMac, especially since it's not connected to the Internet! Its form factor, and the arm holding the 20 inch flat panel display, makes it one of the most beautifully designed computers ever.
My theater director at my high school is named Kyle Kelvington, and he always makes absolutely sure that playbills list him as Kyle W. Kelvington to avoid the issue you came across in this video.
My favourite OS X was actually Leopard. I remember using it in like 2007-08. That whole era of Apple was the best IMO. Plus I remember that was when Apple seemed the most "in". The iPhone had just come out, iPod's were still going strong. Therefore Leopard is my favourite simply for nostalgic reasons.
And Windows had Vista! LOL That was the best time to use a Mac. 38 minutes of Mac Vs PC Ads can't be Wrong! XD Although there was also PS3 at that time and that was the best operating system for me for equally nostalgic reasons, Blu-ray was so amazing! Games were amazing, even the internet browser was amazing. It could actually compete with Internet Explorer on a 3gb Vista Laptop. Downloading music from Newgrounds, watching flash animation on Newgrounds, good times! Although the browser was almost useless by 2012, and they took away the Linux install option :-( not that I was ever technical enough to know how to do it.
Me: Mom I want a Mac
Mom: We have a “Mac” at home
Mac at home: ....
Ken: (presses power button)
iMac: ... “Blasts Russian National anthem”
Funny!😂😂😂
Personal favorite 'vintage' OS X: Snow Leopard
I LUV IT
Tiger rocks for me!
Just so you know (if you don’t already), the yellowing of the keyboard is most likely not the result of dirt/grime/stains or some other gross substance but rather the result of the keyboard likely having been exposed to direct sunlight for an extended period of time which cause the plastic used in many electronic and computer devices/cases/etc to yellow. If you really cared about the keyboard, which given the broken space bar you I presume you don’t, you can restore the color back to some closer to white by using a popular method called retrobrighting. In the case of a keyboard, this method involves talking all the yellowed key caps and other yellowed parts of the KB case and putting them in a dish tub in a bath of a special solution the uses hydrogen peroxide as it’s main ingredient. The tub is then left out in the sun for an extended period of time which will help to restore the white color back, though it may not work 100%. Some folks in winters raining weather have been able to get similar results using sun lamps indoors shining on the retrobright bucket. In this case though, I don’t think it’s really worth the effort as old iMac G4 keyboards in much better condition are easy to come by.
holy crap. I remember the old popping sound, when we used to have those never iMac G4(?) (not this one.) 2-in-1s back when I was in elementary school. damn that brings back memories.
I loved that design, I wish they would make a 4K version of this with modern hardware.
Also, that keyboard would be perfect for retrobrighting.
LOL, I wonder if that could render a 4K video? Just imagine how long it would take with that processing power! XD
Trainboy1EJR With optimized software (which isn’t available due to PowerPC architecture) and a uncompressed codec, I think it would be possible for such a machine in a somewhat decent timeframe. Still much slower than any Mac, iPad or iPhone.
krazy ken: this is a family friendly show also ken: HOLY *cuss word*
10.2 was my first Mac OS X. I installed it on my 8500 (with a 233 MHz accelerator card) via XPostFacto-a neat little app that allowed you to install Mac OS X on older, unsupported Macs. It was rock solid, so much so, in fact, that I used it as my main OS for almost everything. Almost, because the older version of _Logic_ and all its plug-ins (and a few other audio apps) I had didn’t play ball with 10.2. Good times.
That was the original iMac G4 released in 2002, but the top of the line model with the DVD-R SuperDrive. So they included a blank DVD to use with iDVD. The model with the combo-drive did not include the blank DVD-R. If you want to speed up that iMac, reformat the drive and reinstall OS X to get rid of all the crap that was on the drive (Norton SystemWorks, iClean, etc. is what is killing the Finder in OS X). Wow, that one is upgraded to 768 MB of RAM! Since it is the 800MHz model, it is the top of the line original model with the SuperDrive.
since the comunity post i was excited about this!
The DVD-R came free with it when it was new. This iMac came with OS 9.2 and OS X 10.2 and iLife, with everything you needed to make your own first home DVD, including the blank disc.
In fairness to the computer, it's not the computer itself that is slow. It's the junkyard it's filled with that's slowing it down. I just got an iMac G4 and once I put a clean install of Tiger on it, it ran super smooth.
I really appreciate the effort that went into the captions
I had one used it for about 4 years. It wasn't that slow. Probably reinstall, check to see if the HD is working properly. The one I had was the first 800 Mhz with 15" display, 256 MB RAM, and a 60 GB HD. The greeting card software didn't come with it.
Del Scoville: That was the top end model of the original “Flat Panel” iMacs.
256MB RAM might sound a lot but they’d take 1GB (far superior if one could afford it), but the real bottleneck, as we know now, was the slow 5400-rpm IDE hard drives.
Norton SystemWorks dragged everything down to treacle speed on any platform so would be the first thing I’d uninstall from the OS X half of this machine - Norton even provided a *proper* uninstaller on their web site to shift all their gunk lurking in the system - with that gone, I reckon it’d perk up quite a lot.
“It’s loading the desktop now, 20 years later” - Talk about nailing the user experience!
Come on man gimme the bong!
*passes the g4*
Hell yeah!
Notice how when you stopped using the Finder, performance became quite a bit better. That's likely due to Finder being a Carbon app until Snow Leopard or so. The early OS X Finder was really slow and usually the bottleneck on a lot of systems.
"This is a somewhat family-friendly show."
*35 seconds later*
"HOLY SH|T!"
You should wipe it out by putting a new HDD/SSD into it and starting from scratch. Leave everything on the original drive as an actual time capsule.
Krazy Ken has friends. Friends who hang out in parking lots and supply him with used electronics. Seems legit. ;>
YES I love the beach ball and Macs together. So many rainbow and spinning rainbows.
More Druaga1 type videos
9:08 LOUD BONG ! Ken : Holy Crap ! Opps ! I almost fell out my chair. WOW ! That was LOUD ! Oh ! I love it ! Phew ! Ooooh ! That was great !
I have two of those 17-inch 1GHz bad boys. One of them has the Pro speakers. These machines tend to be sloths with that little amount of RAM. You can bump it up to 2GB, which I highly recommend, but you'll have to crack open the case to access the smaller stick. Your machine is ripe for a wipe. It will run up to 10.5, but if you want to use OS9, you should keep it at 10.4. Congrats on a free iMac G4. Hell, any free Mac is good.
KrazyKen 2019: Ah, the old aqua user interface... im sure we will have a lot of fun with that
Also KrazyKen 2019: If the stuff is cool, wait until we boot up the computer!
Also KrazyKen 2019: SLOWEST COMPUTER EVER
I remember the commercials of this with the screen following and looking at people through the window. This floating screen is the precursor to the Magic Keyboard
20:08
Ken: starts talking about using the imac as a dvd player
iMac: blasts music
My old iMac G4 behaved like this after it's second hand-me-down. CPU cache was busted. Hardware test CD you showed i think told me this.
This was always my favorite generation of iMac.
I'm not sure if this counts as vintage, but I enjoy Tiger. It is really stable and runs really nicely on my Power Mac G4.
I loved this computer, my moms friend had it in a cozy af minimalist office room with a giant desk, huge swivel chair I would play runescape and my favorite mmos on it for hours. I even played some fps's and box games on it whatever was current at the time. I wish I could remember the names of them it would be a blast to grab one and relive those fun times. This was the only apple computer I really liked, it was such a great design and maybe it's just my nostalgia for all the great times I had using it but nobody thinks outside the box like this anymore
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Donkey speakers
Holy Shit ! Woop ! Almost fell out my chair - KrazyKen 2019
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PC's Should Have a Startup Sound
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aww thanks for saving it for our bonding time :)
Well my polycarbonate MacBook’s hard drive just died Ken. I’ll be putting an SSD in there here soon (120 GB). The original was replaced before I got the system in late 2017 with the drive that died recently.
I bought a full spec G4/800 iMac when they first came out. I remember booting into OS 9 was always way more responsive than running OS X. I still used X though as it was so much cooler looking.
Ah, how I love a new video from the CC.
Great video as usual, also that parking lot is weird as shit.
Why is the parking lot weird???
Computer Clan just random to meet in a random parking lot in the dark lol
Couple things about that…
1. I live in a place where it’s never light in the winter. The sun just takes a vacation.
2. I was at the edge of the lot. If I turned the camera, you’d see a big building and 200 parking spaces.
; )
Just so you know, I tried OS X panther, tiger and leopard on my imac g4 and Tiger is REALLY FAST. Maybe you should try it out (maybe part 2 ? ;) )
Especially since that iMac G4 has 768 MB of RAM!
yeah, I upgrade ours from tiger to leapord, god damn is it slow
My original G4 15” runs 10.2 really fine, my late G4 17” runs really smooth on 10.5.
They do differ in processors ofcourse, but two different successful examples :)
P.s. having norton and crap like rotating colored wallpapers wont make it fast xD
To get rid of the yellowing try Retro Brighting it. The 8-bit Guy does that sometimes and most almost all the time it works!
I took apart one of these a few weeks ago. It had 512mb of ram. I can't wait to watch Ken struggle.
I do remember the desktop background picture! :)
i remember when i first opened iMovie and that intro played and it blew up 1 speaker
Watching old computers still working is pretty cool. Simplicity was a great thing back in the day. Computers today are wonderful but most are overkill when it comes to specs and functionality.
Not really, my i7 11700K and RTX 3060Ti isn't overkill, heck it struggles sometimes doing tasks, and sure maybe I don't need a PC that is basically a 100-in-1, but I use almost every feature everyday
@@theforerunnerreclaimer I was saying in a nutshell 3 years ago was that people today don't need overkill computers with specs to the moon. All they want is for them to work properly and securely. Most people are very well put off and intimated by the scope of these things they do not understand. Today most users are fine with the minimum specs, the overkill specs only apply to heavy users and those are in the minority.
With computing being now in the cloud the need for these monster spec machines will be obsolete, when ready the cloud will be able to handle monster specs and mimic those specs on what we know as minimum spec hardware. When that happens there we be no need for high spec physical hardware.
I predict within next ten years we'll have a computer that has an operating system that will only rely on the cloud from boot to shutdown without having that OS on any physical drive. All physical computers I believe will be on chip on a very small drive with minimum programing for it boot securely into the cloud allowing the user to log in instantly.
My first Mac is the G4 iMac that I purchased in 03/2003 in J&R Computer World in lower Manhattan. And Apple was selling blank DVD's for years. I have dozens of Apple DVD's that I burnt with iDVD and/or Toast 5. Surprised you've never seen one before.
Dead from alcohol poisoning with in the first two minutes of the video 🤣
great video! i even didnt realize it was almost 40 mins, thanks!
Apple Computer Incinerated lmao
I used one at school, and bought one for home. They weren't slow at all, and I didn't see the beachball like you apparently did.
You need to find the rare and original iSub to work with the Pro Speakers. But the iSub is only compatible up to OS X Tiger. That original iMac G4 could also boot OS 9 natively too. The later versions released in 2003 and later were OS X only, but Classic supported up through Tiger.
Back in collage they gave us a 5 pack of those DVD-Rs to burn our final project demo reels on. Fun times :-)
I'm hapoy to see that Ken has been somewhere other than 10 stories underground. It must be STANKIN' down there.
I jumped onboard the Mac train quite late - my intel macbook pro had OS X Tiger and it was 99.99999% absolutely perfect, slick, comprehensive and just effing amazing. The way it used opengl throughout the system kept it super smooth, did some really impressive stuff (like the early version of screens) - I was familiar with Linux and there were a lot of technologies that looked to have made it in the OS from open source stuff... It felt like the ultimate linux distro (yes, I know it's based on BSD) and everything just felt super on-point for a super nerd, with the exception of gaming.... Then iphone came out shortly afterward, and OS X seemingly got more and more trimmed down to bare bones (ad no more brushed metal look), and somehow got more complicated at the same time (usb stack stack rewrites, et al). And now we have what is effectively "Cancel" and "Allow [anyway]" UAC-style functionality... the very thing Apple had on their ads around the time I bought mine that was used to shit on windows vista... It's always had a rep for being pretentious, but at one point beneath the interface (that these days looks comfortable in any coffee shop) there was some serious power and control over everything. It's still nice - I feel like it's been dumbed down to a nub of what it once was! I've also moved back to Windows for the most part. The mouse acceleration in OS X onward is dreadful - and Apple seemingly did what they could over the years to disable any third party apps that were trying to make it feel more like windows and linux... so annoying!
I remember when my dad used iDVD to create custom made recordings of my favorite PBS Kids shows I grew up watching. It’s too bad that Apple hasn’t had an effective replacement for iDVD ever since they stopped releasing it 12 years ago when the built-in disc drive feature was also discontinued. Same with LiveType when the aluminum Mac was released in 2007
15:30 - I did on-site computer repair for many years. Billed by the hour. Slow computers were wonderful. I even once had a guy pay me to back up his laptop's hard drive to CD-R. Of course, his laptop didn't have a CD-R drive, it only had USB 1.1. He wanted ~10 GB of data backed up. So I had to copy it to my USB drive (5 GB "Microdrive",) then copy it to my laptop to burn the CD-R.
He wouldn't let me do more than just copy the parent folders, didn't "let me" look inside them. But as it was copying, I could see in the progress dialog the file names.
Yup, porn. He only had dial-up, so that 10 GB of porn was downloaded over many hundreds of hours... He paid me a few hundred dollars to back up porn.
Livin' the dream, haha.
The g4 iMac is one of my favorite iMacs ever design wise
The G4 iMac is a sexy machine. Even today there is still something cool about that adjustable neck for the display. I do remember 10.2 being really slow and buggy even when it was brand new. That was back in the day when I wanted my parents to get a Windows machine instead because 10.2 and 10.3 drove me nuts with how slow and buggy it was.
I even have Mac OS 9 on my 2017 MacBook Air 😅👌
Actually - of course - it's not running natively, but emulation through SheepShaver is actually freaky fast and runs with 512MB RAM and a simulated PowerPC G3 processor. Good enough to try some old vintage software - even if it doesn't (sadly) even play MP3 files (or other audio/video media);
Eric Freiberg: There used to be a program called “Classic On Intel” (COI)(an emulator/VM of sorts), aimed at running OS 9 on Snow Leopard and later Macs.
I have it somewhere but never found the time to road test it properly. Obviously, it’d benefit from gigabytes of memory. My old 2,1 Mac Pro (with upgraded Xeons), has 32GB RAM - imagine OS 9 running on 32GB RAM!
Unfortunately, I suspect there’s an upper limit the old OS could handle, but it’d be an interesting experiment finding out. 😲😀
Yes!! It’s here. Can’t wait to watch it this afternoon!
If this thing has the original Seagate hard drive in it, it's a good idea to replace it; I put a 7200 RPM Samsung IDE drive in my G4, and it made quite a difference.
23:18 Two Kens speaking simultaneously
23:59 You're going to se the details you've-- ♪ La la la ♪
29:25 Illuminati Confirmed
Also,
*R A M E N*
BONG "holy shit"
8:54… oh look, it’s a future relative of Conky! 😂
Well considering what you paid for that haul I'd say you got one heckin deal
Edit: The G4 is from that weird time where Apple has really embraced their new design language that has stuck around until today as evidenced by the fact if this design never hit the market Apple could take that exact same design and tweak it a bit and release it tomorrow as a 2022 design without anyone batt an eye. Yet the lack of a wide screen monitor instantly and obviously dates it.
12:30 - All Macs came with a fully-configured Mac OS 9 install all the way up to the last G5s. It's just that the later ones couldn't boot natively in to it, they could only run it via the "Classic" environment. The very first generation of iMac G4 (the 700 and 800 MHz 15" models, and the original 17" model,) could natively boot Mac OS 9. But the later ones (Feb 2003 and later) were Mac OS X boot-only. Although enterprising hackers have managed to modify Mac OS 9 so that it will run on those later iMacs. (And basically any 'officially unsupported" G4, although all the G5s are off limits still.)
I had this exact same thing happen just a couple days ago, a friend gave me one of his four g4s he had sitting around.
Good thing I learned what you meant by "burning". I would have thought: Why would you burn a disc? Wouldn't that break it?
18:20 Looks like the original owner liked Owl City and Jason DeRulo, that’s super cool!
when i saw that yellow keyboard it made me feel old
I have same imac g4 you have i brought it over 2 years as used it still works great
32:59 I love “Source Code”
Thanks for posting this video, it was fun especially going back with OS 9. Of course it was much more snappier than Mac OS X at the time. A lot of people agreed back then that OS X really slow compared to 9. I remember on my Grape iMac G3 when i upgraded to Mac OS X how much more snappier 9 was. One thing I have always disliked about apple is their constant shut down of our ability to change the look of the GUI. With Mac OS 8 we were able to find online boot leg copies of the different themes that Apple decided to cancel. Some of them were really good and then a third party came out with Candy Bar which picked up where Mac OS appearance stopped. it was great theming the OS GUI - One last product called Kaleidoscope. Which I believe came out befor Candy Bar. I think for us Consumer base Apple should allow us to make those mods if we want to or give us the tools to keep it from messing up the OS security. And keep the Pro computers in the uniform design. There was question as to why they took the ability away the last minute and was answered they wanted all macs to be uniform for support which kind of agreed with except it took our personalization away. anyway it was nice memory lane thanks Ken!
Yeah if it was less than a 733Mhz G4 or so, it’s pretty pokey. Some of those hard drives haven’t aged well either; my Quicksilver G4 tower shipped with a 60GB disk that hasn’t exactly died, but it’s gotten slower and slower. Also upgraded that 867Mhz G4 to a Sonnet 1.2Ghz and an ATA-133 card and still use it as a home server running Tiger. Most likely the issue with that 800Mhz iMac is some kernel extension gone awry. You’ll probably want 512MB RAM for Tiger though.
I had one of these for about 5 years then it died. I gave it to someone who had more knowledge as I picked up a 2012 iMac to replace it.
Ken : Says iMac 6 million times
Also Ken : Can't say the mouse name, trademark.