A software developer has proven it is possible to run a modern LLM on old hardware like a 2005 PowerBook G4, albeit nowhere ...

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 ...

In a blog post this week, software engineer Andrew Rossignol (my brother!) detailed how he managed to run generative AI on an ...

UTM is an emulator for virtualizing other operating systems. Here's how to use it to run Apple's Mac OS 9 on a Mac running on ...

When it comes to modern operating systems for PowerPC-based systems like pre-Intel ... So what do you do if you have a PPC-based Mac system lying around which you do not simply want to run the ...

Last month, we looked at the Power Mac G4 line, a series of computers that defined the professional ... At the heart of this new Mac was the PowerPC G5 processor. Created in partnership with IBM, it ...

Power Mac models were designated first with numbers from 5200 to 9700 and then G3, G4 and G5. What seems paltry today, the first Power Macs came with 8MB of RAM and used the 601 PowerPC CPU chip ...