Today I benchmarked the two #Powerbook 12" against each other. My original companion from 2003 against the newly purchased one from 2005.

The 1GHz with 768MB & 100GB HDD - 10.4:
- Geekbench 2 score: 530
- Xbench 1.3 score: 37.15

The 1.5GHz with 1280MB RAM & 128GB SSD - 10.5:
- Geekbench 2 Score: 635
- Xbench 1.3 score: 53.69
- Xbench 1.3 score with old HDD: 44.37

#VintageMac #Retrocomputing #Apple #Geekbench #Xbench #PowerPC #PPC #Tiger #Leopard #OSX #Macintosh

This brings back memories: #Diablo2

Though I prefer #Diablo 1 and I've already installed #DevilutionX, it's been so long since i've played D2.

And everything is so snappy on #OSX #Leopard with an #SSD so I've spent hours installing stuff in general just as an excuse to play with the machine.

Time to play on this portable mac gaming powerhouse:

#PowerbookG4 12" 1.5GHz
#Nvidia GeForce FX Go 5200
128GB SSD
1.25GB RAM
64MB VRAM

#Apple #Macintosh #VintageMac #PowerPC #PPC #Retrocomputing #mac

ok, dumb n00b question: I am moving to MacPorts from Brew as I have grown tired of Brew only supporting recent versions of OS X.

Looking at MacPorts and what applications that I can install compared to Brew is significantly less. How would someone add to the MacPorts ecosystem the ability to say install Waterfox like we can with Brew?

#macports #brew #homebrew #osX #mac_os_x #os_x
#retrocomputing #retroComputers

Spent the entire day building a modern *nix ecosystem for the 12" 1.5GHz #PowerbookG4 with the new #SSD drive.

#MacPorts is such a great tool and community with archives for atleast some prebuilt packages.
Thanks!

In total 266 packages installed today. Not done yet though but managed to get the essentials including:
- bash 5.3.9_0
- gcc14 14.3.0_0
- openssh 10.3p1_0
- openssl3 3.6.1_0
- python314 3.14.5_0
- zsh 5.9_3

#VintageMac #PowerPC #Macintosh #Retrocomputing #PPC #Apple #OSX

Bought an #SSD Upgrade to the #Powerbook G4 12" 1.5GHz

- chenyang mSATA Mini SATA SSD to IDE 44Pin
- Transcend MSA230 128GB mSATA SSD

Opening up this computer takes some commitment. And while I was in there I also lubricated the CPU fan to fix some noise. Then booted the computer from an external #Firewire disk and restored the #Sorbert Leopard image.

#VintageMac #Retrocomputing #PPC #PowerbookG4 #G4 #msata #Macintosh #PowerPC #osx