Apple's Strange 14-inch iBook G4

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  • Опубликовано: 23 янв 2025

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  • @HrutkayMods
    @HrutkayMods Год назад +19

    24:50 Minecraft is telling you what browser to try out hint hint lol

    • @frokfrdk
      @frokfrdk  Год назад +5

      Good to know actually

  • @themacintoshnerd
    @themacintoshnerd Год назад +8

    Okay I am very upset this channel was never recommended to me until now. Love your channel already :)

  • @AndrewPerryJr
    @AndrewPerryJr Год назад +10

    Your rendition of the intro/setup song gave me a chuckle. That was great!
    The 14 in. iBook G4 takes me back to college (university) 2005. I had the 1.42 GHz model customized with an 80 GB HDD and later a RAM upgrade to 1.5 GBs. I carried that thing everywhere with me on campus. After college, I continued to carry the iBook around with me at work. Sadly, I dropped that iBook in 2008 causing it have a small crack near the center bottom of the display. Finally, in 2011, I dropped the iBook again and that time the entire display went and that was the last time I used it.

  • @henrypage8951
    @henrypage8951 Год назад +6

    Had one of these. Did my uni essays on it in like 2008. Got the job done

  • @joshr2d2
    @joshr2d2 Год назад +58

    You can skip the registration info step on older versions of OS X if you press Command + Q

    • @RaysGamingChannel2003
      @RaysGamingChannel2003 Год назад +1

      That’s IF it’s Mac OS X 10.4 and up
      Older then 10.4 then no

    • @joshr2d2
      @joshr2d2 11 месяцев назад

      @@RaysGamingChannel2003 definitely works as far back as 10.2 Jaguar

    • @RaysGamingChannel2003
      @RaysGamingChannel2003 11 месяцев назад

      @@joshr2d2it does? How did I not know that

    • @meccsanofficial
      @meccsanofficial 6 месяцев назад

      Just say CMD + Q
      You don’t gotta be extra

    • @jpedrothejo
      @jpedrothejo 6 месяцев назад

      @@meccsanofficialthey gotta make it premium

  • @rayproductionsbackupchanne3862
    @rayproductionsbackupchanne3862 7 месяцев назад +2

    4:40 fun fact. the ibook g4's bigger screen does plug in and work fine on the smaller powerbooks LOL

  • @AsquatranananBananananan
    @AsquatranananBananananan Год назад +2

    It’s always a good day when frokfrdk uploads🎉🎉🎉

  • @talibong9518
    @talibong9518 Год назад +35

    The A, N and L keys are the most worn, I wonder what they were searching for so often to do that? 😆

  • @AndrewJcf
    @AndrewJcf Год назад +4

    6:42 it's a UK power cable

    • @Henderson101
      @Henderson101 Год назад +3

      Though that plug is also used in Hong Kong and Malaysia too.

    • @Azuuraas
      @Azuuraas 3 месяца назад +2

      ​@@Henderson101ireland and singapore too

  • @breakinggames6356
    @breakinggames6356 Год назад +2

    I do have a iBook G3 of the same size and despite it being a snow model its not white but rather gray and has a fancier font for the iBook logo

    • @Dreams_Of_Lavender
      @Dreams_Of_Lavender Год назад +1

      Yeah, most of the Snow G3 iBooks were a translucent white plastic with a silvery palmrest and transparent keyboard. My G3 is a 500MHz 12" from 2001.

    • @RaysGamingChannel2003
      @RaysGamingChannel2003 2 месяца назад

      @@Dreams_Of_Lavendersame I have also a iBook G3 from 2001
      That’s a 500 MHZ

  • @PeterEmery
    @PeterEmery Год назад +1

    I once replaced the power plug of a 14-in G4 iBook because the cable had worn through too close to the plug to be repaired. Turns out the plug is a 2.5mm stereo audio plug of tip-ring-sleeve configuration. The tip has no power connection, the ring is 24 volts negative and the sleeve is 24 volts positive. The metal tube surrounding it is to prevent silly people from inserting the 24 volt power supply into an audio port.
    My "fix" worked in that the laptop charged but there was no multi-coloured illuminated light around the face of the connector that met up with the body of the laptop.

  • @DankBudsYT
    @DankBudsYT Год назад +1

    As always good vids

  • @leylandlynxvlog
    @leylandlynxvlog 25 дней назад

    The first OS X Mac laptop I spent any significant amount of time with was a 14" iBook I borrowed from my school, the 12" one was strange to me. I miss the clamshell ones though they had a terrible screen resolution.

  • @djangosoftwaredeveloper
    @djangosoftwaredeveloper Месяц назад

    I miss that form factor of the ibook g4 so much 😢

  • @mikoanton
    @mikoanton Год назад +1

    i remember running minecraft at 5 fps on my 2005 eMac back in minecraft beta 1.7.3

  • @albertmunoz9075
    @albertmunoz9075 6 месяцев назад

    got the 14inch ibook and i love it

  • @radeakins
    @radeakins 3 месяца назад

    I've got one. Got it cheap, maxed the ram and put in a 256gb SSD. I've only spent around £30 on it. Works great but struggling with making boot drives. Its running Panther but want to put in Tiger (for Shuriken) or Leopard (for Sorbet).

  • @ChromifyX
    @ChromifyX Год назад

    Love your content, I'm already in your server and boosted it, tho it's interesting to see a macbook display size *THIS* big, currently using a lenovo legion laptop that has 15 inches.

  • @Itsraminstech
    @Itsraminstech Год назад

    This channel is awesome

  • @goober_19
    @goober_19 Год назад

    underrated channel

  • @PeterEmery
    @PeterEmery Год назад +4

    One thing that can be done with Apple laptops with dud/dodgy keyboards is to position a Bluetooth keyboard on top of the existing one: the feet on the BT keyboard neatly straddle the built-in keyboard without depressing any keys. You also get a sloped typing angle. I have used this trick with 12 and 14-in iBooks, 12, and 15-in PowerBooka and a pre-unibody 15-in MacBook Pro.

    • @Majorblast6
      @Majorblast6 6 месяцев назад

      I do that on my windows laptop :)

  • @VeitLehmann
    @VeitLehmann 11 месяцев назад

    Amazing how it manages to play RUclips at... almost 10 frames per... minute... I had the 12" version back then, it's still somewhere in my parents' house. Maybe I'll play around with it some day. It might be able to run some lightweight Linux or BSD and be actually usable then.

  • @atarixle
    @atarixle 3 месяца назад +1

    Damn now you made me finally buy a 20 € iBook G4 14 inch .. 1.33 GHz which is the equvalent of my 1.2 GHz 12 inch device. Both had one more successor: 1.33 GHz 12 inch, as well as an 1.42 GHz 14 inch. Just tell me, which version of Minecraft did you download and show in the Video?

    • @frokfrdk
      @frokfrdk  3 месяца назад

      You'd need to download the Power PC port of Minecraft it can be found on Macintosh garden.

  • @DankyMankey
    @DankyMankey 7 месяцев назад +2

    The WASD keys are completely worn! The previous person who had it really did a lot of gaming on it.

    • @trabant601e
      @trabant601e 15 дней назад

      Not likely, this is MacOS after all

    • @Rodrigo-ks6oc
      @Rodrigo-ks6oc 12 дней назад

      @trabant601ePPC Macs had lots of games, actually.

  • @sjgrall
    @sjgrall 2 месяца назад

    I had a 14 inch iBook G4 from 2004 to 2009. It was great until I put 10.5 Leopard on it… then it crawled. The letters wearing off was a common issue. A later revision of the keyboard laser etched the letters into the plastic, and it never happened to me again after AppleCare covered it.

  • @MandrakeRoomba
    @MandrakeRoomba Год назад

    Fork for dog never fails to rip our heads off😍😍😍

  • @WhatTheFlash-cx6ox
    @WhatTheFlash-cx6ox Год назад +1

    Forgot how chunky the old iBooks were!

  • @kodessa
    @kodessa Год назад +2

    it's wild to think there was a time where we had to buy new MacOS releases

  • @login415
    @login415 21 час назад

    that looks like eucalyptus oil. also, I like how your free 12" has a ripped out kensington lock 😎

  • @stephenvalente3296
    @stephenvalente3296 7 месяцев назад

    I’ve got one of these in very good condition, and a 12” Powerbook. Pieces of Apple history rather than things I use.

  • @EirikrTinkerTries
    @EirikrTinkerTries 7 месяцев назад

    How well does this MacBook run with MorphOS? And can you get Minecraft running on MorphOS?

  • @taybagulfam8260
    @taybagulfam8260 Год назад +3

    you can just change the key caps by removing from 12 inch to 14 inch. One more thing i will recommend is to upgrade the ram to 1.5gb

    • @frokfrdk
      @frokfrdk  Год назад +3

      I have bad luck with laptop keycaps, I end up breaking the switches

    • @TheJoMan2
      @TheJoMan2 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@frokfrdkSame

  • @manafiscoolerthanyou
    @manafiscoolerthanyou 7 месяцев назад

    "little boy, big boy!"

  • @new-lviv
    @new-lviv Год назад

    Will you install Adelie Linux on it?

  • @tigersusyt
    @tigersusyt Год назад

    should had watched this on my 1st intel imac

  • @šokolataSK
    @šokolataSK Год назад

    Did the previous owner played minecraft on this? 1:46

  • @LONDON1575
    @LONDON1575 9 месяцев назад

    This plug was or is uk

  • @hi_im_envy
    @hi_im_envy Год назад

    sometimes i like to chase your mouse around with my mouse on the screen so its like theyre cuddling

  • @Wii1235
    @Wii1235 Год назад

    You:
    The iBook she tells you not to worry about:

  • @nitricoxide1
    @nitricoxide1 Год назад

    This is what it feels like to play Genshin Impact on my laptop: 14:02

  • @Dnom-o6i
    @Dnom-o6i Год назад

    watching this on my 14" apple laptop

  • @alephcake
    @alephcake Год назад

    minecraft lets play when??
    oh, and each episode on a newer machine :P

  • @ShakerProgamer69
    @ShakerProgamer69 Год назад +1

    Laptops that changes into an ipad

  • @leylandlynxvlog
    @leylandlynxvlog 23 дня назад

    UK plug! Also used in Kenya.

  • @voltz3647
    @voltz3647 Год назад

    i wish i was as cool as this guy

  • @ARBUZIK.dudkin
    @ARBUZIK.dudkin Год назад

    I wonder how that Minecraft would run with optifine or sodium

    • @frokfrdk
      @frokfrdk  Год назад

      This version of Minecraft for PowerPC comes with Optifine pre-installed, it's what helps it run at all

  • @Juanguar
    @Juanguar Год назад

    The plug is from the UK

  • @benny21293
    @benny21293 Год назад +1

    Limiting FPS to 60 (or rather the refresh rate of your display) makes the rendering take only as much resources as it needs to achieve 100% performance and not waste resources on rendering frames that will never be displayed.

    • @dmer-zy3rb
      @dmer-zy3rb 7 месяцев назад

      Only makes sense if you enable vsync or the game just craps out at more than 60.

  • @bramvandenbroeck5060
    @bramvandenbroeck5060 Год назад

    Command Q skips the setup :p

  • @jpedrothejo
    @jpedrothejo 6 месяцев назад

    frog fe duck

  • @DaleGold-j9e
    @DaleGold-j9e Месяц назад

    I have the 2005 version of this. It's stored away with old stuff. I was just wondering if it would still work. TBH I don't like the look of the current versions of Mac books. Apple seems to have gotten in a rut, and everything just looks the same and BORING now.

  • @rleproductions2834
    @rleproductions2834 6 месяцев назад

    I just watched your video on my own 12.1 inch Ibook g4. It was awful, (not the video, the playback. It was unusable. But im going to try other methods.)

  • @erayrafet5571
    @erayrafet5571 Год назад

    Du-du-du...
    🤣

  • @iraitsjffskts
    @iraitsjffskts Год назад +1

    overrated "4th" (or 6th)

  • @monte2603
    @monte2603 Год назад

    🌺 Promo>SM

  • @valt9093
    @valt9093 11 месяцев назад

    666

  • @i3_i9
    @i3_i9 Год назад

    My 2010 Macbook can run minecraft better than 11 fps. It runs at 40 fps on 1.7.10. This is cool tho!

    • @oldipodee
      @oldipodee Год назад

      my 2012 iMac can run Minecraft 1.20 with high end shaders at 20fps. dont ask how it hasnt caught fire

  • @miafrdk
    @miafrdk Год назад

    First lol

  • @Praneel-oy6ws
    @Praneel-oy6ws Год назад

    Him:'This runs it very well at 30 fps'
    Me(who gets more than a thousand in that game): seriously?