For a while now, I have been looking for a Power Macintosh 9600, one of Apple’s last Beige high-end Power Macintosh. That was before Steve Jobs came back to Apple. Unlike the Beige Power Macintosh G3, which only had three PCI slots and three memory slots, the 9600 had six PCI slots and 12 memory …
While searching for the holy grail Power Macintosh, known as the Power Macintosh 9600, I found a Mac Clone listing in the trading section of the 68kmla. Since these clones are rare, they go for crazy prices on eBay. With that, I decided to buy it. But you might be wondering, Macintosh Clone? What are …
With SATA PCI cards like the Seritek cards and the two-port Sonnet Tempo SATA PCI card being rare and often expensive, what other solutions exist? Sure, the pre-flashed SATA cards are bootable from China using Mac OS 9, but those just don’t work. I found one and found that it won’t boot my existing SSD …
The second and final part of the Power Macintosh 8100 Project is upgrading to make it a relatively fast 8100. It won’t be the ultimate as it doesn’t have the fastest G3 or, let alone, a G4 accelerator, which exist but are rare.
As mentioned last week, I finally decided to pick up a Power Macintosh 8100, which is in pretty good shape given its age. While I have a Power Mac G4 Mirror Door Drive, the fastest G4 that can run Mac OS 9, which has the holy grail of video cards, is the Nvidia Geforce 4 …
It has been a while since I did another project involving vintage Macs. In 2021, I got a Power Mac G4 Mirror Door and added a bunch of upgrades, including a SATA adapter with SSDs, memory, USB, and a Geforce 4 Ti 4600 video card. It’s the fastest PowerPC Mac running Classic Mac OS 9 …
