Titanium PowerBook G4 (867 MHz Model) 

I was so shocked when you said you had never seen one so I had to send you one! Thank you for another great IMNC video ☺️

I was only 5 then, but the Titanium PowerBook's design must've blown everything else out of the water back in 2002. It doesn't look almost 20 years old at all.

Holy shit this takes me back! First G4 laptop I ever owned. Remember sprinting home from school to rip the box open. Sad as it sounds I genuinely haven't felt genuine childlike excitement/anticipation like that many times since!

For all these years I thought they transitioned from the G3 to the aluminium G4's, I did not know these existed. You learn something new every day

An hour long PowerPC Mac video from my favourite RU-vidr to start off my Saturday with ? Hell yeah

Always a joy to see more PowerPC goodness on the channel Tom! Thanks for this gem

Awesome machine Tom. I love these old machines. Never owned one of these either, though I did have a G4 1.67 a few years ago as a non-connected machine for writing, one of the best keyboards ever. It's funny to think that in 20 years time people (maybe even us) will be looking at Intel Macs in the same light that we look at PPC Macs currently, if they survive as well as these old things have. Great video as always, though not massively keen not eh mono audio. I actually prefer the camera mic, especially for classic IMNC videos though I fully appreciate I'm probably firmly in a minority. Keep up the great work.

LAst time I watched a video was when you switch from mac to pc in 2011, Wow time flies Great to see you still doing youtube for this long! How underrated.

I use a 1GHz Titanium in class sometimes for PowerPoint and the like. It's older than most of the students! :D

Love the thin bezels. You're so lucky to have one in such great condition!

Awesome, another upload! Can't wait to dive into this one. These are such beautiful machines.

I'm impressed by the condition of that one, so many of those were destroyed pretty badly. I had one a long time ago and part of the bottom was apart as I got it used.

Sweet video and really generous gift from Hayley. :)

The TiBook was my dream Mac back at the time, too bad I was too young to be able to afford one. I did eventually end up with a 12" AluBook though which I still have to this day - very handy to play nostalgic old Mac games on.

I can't believe I found your channel again after so so many years (8+). glad to see you're still making fantastic videos.

I have been watching you for years! Im shocked you don't have more subscribers !

Awesome machine! Hard to believe how old it actually is!

those Hinges were notorious for breaking so that is definitely why they changed it

Great video on this PowerBook!

Just wanted to say a massive thanks for your vid's think they have got me through the lockdowns.

Found one of these at a car boot sale recently, it was in pretty bad shape with damage caused by the previous owner. I've spent the last few weeks fixing it up bit by bit, these things really are one of the best classic Macintosh laptops!

These machines are the last Mac laptops that can natively boot into Mac OS 9 without needing classic mode in X (or a modded version) I believe! Might be worth slapping a copy of that on it.

can't lie whenever i watch one of these videos i really want to just buy more vintage macs to add to the current macs i own, by the way, youtube didn't show this to me, but thanks for another great video!

I'm a little bit late but great video anyways as always from Tom! Really enjoy seeing some old ppc macs!

Found your channel reviewing your powerbook g4 aluminum years back!!

My 8th and 9th grade computer teacher had a first generation 500MHz TiBook. It was such a beautiful machine compared to the POS Toshiba Satellite machines all the other teachers had, with Windows ME, bleh! Her room also had 29 600MHz iMac G3s, a 700MHz first gen 15" iMac G4 for a teachers station, and a Dual 450mhz Gigabit Ethernet PowerMac G4 with a 17" CRT Apple Studio Display, the awesome translucent one. It was a glorious time to be a Mac person. When I became her assistant I got to have that PowerMac G4 as, for all intents and purposes, my personal machine for school work and tech support, since literally no one else ever used it. She never assigned students to that machine, such a waste of what was probably a $3500 configuration. So for two years I had my personal 500Mhz Snow iBook and a Dual 450 G4 at school. I pretty much single-handedly maintained all the Macs and most of the PCs in that school for the two years I was there, had a whole lot of fun and learned how to fix just about every type of Mac Apple was making in the early 2000s. Now that you mention the PowerBook G3 I might have to dig out my Pismo and see if she still boots.

Hi 🙋🏼‍♂️ Cant wait :D

Nice!, I’ve never used a titanium model though I’ve only got the one aluminium from early 2005, it’s the 1.67ghz non high res one, need to get it an OS still. The keyboard feel and the thin screen bezels for something of that age is still something to gawk at for sure. My first iPhone was a 3GS too, though I got one much later on in its lifecycle (iOS 5 had just came out for it) Thanks for the awesome content as always Tom 👌

Another Mac for your collection, nice one dude

Oh yeah, IMNC goodness! :)

Lovely machine and a blast from the past seeing the visuals for Leopard. Wish Apple would bring back the matte screens. My 2011 15in Macbook Pro was the last model. Finally sold it to fund an M1 Mac mini. Do miss the screen though, especially as the weather brightens up. BTW Tony Hawke is in French not Spanish :)

Good job buddy

Ha my good friend Tom!!! Everyone on the channel loves you and your precious family!!! Your excitement is always so contagious!! I not only learn something from all of your videos but i feel so much batter after having watched them!! Please give my warmest regards to Jess and a hug to those boys!!! Your friend across The Pond. Larry

If you get core player up and running the videos will run WAY better. Nice video tom, always fun to see some PPC stuff!

If you were to install Quicktime 7.7, you might get much better performance on the video playback.

The ultimate classic Mac OS machine imo

Wow, IMNC PowerPC videos still going strong :) The Titanium PowerBook has always been an interesting Mac model to me, as it's like it actually skipped a design generation, replacing the black PowerBook G3 but being an early "modern Apple" design at its early 2001 launch when the other models were still the 1998-based curvy designs with the iMac and iBook even still having the translucent colours! 867MHz & 768MB haha like a palindrome :P French THPS3 - "jeu" is game, in Spanish it would be "jeugo".

I’m about to screw with your viewer retention stats, because I don’t HAVE an hour to watch this, but I’m gonna start it now.

Tony hawk's in french by the way :)

looking forward to the storage solutuions.

Ah yes, jumping on this straight away.

The 3GS was also my first iPhone

I have a few TiBooks, I was going to do that whole, combine them into one really good one, I have 2 1Ghz models, one not working, and a couple of 867s. Really need to get on that. These are the fastest laptops that run Mac OS 9

I can’t believe I was 9 when this came out

Tom you mean leopard will be a bit of a cat on this machine.... ...I'll get my coat

The titanium powerbook is my favorite computer in terms of design.

2:51 and it has a nice crack in the plastic :D mine had them aswell and i send it in to apple that often that i got an iPhone 4 brand new from apple for it

For how thin the bezels are your would not think it was the old haha

Never clicked so fast before!

Bad news: Action Retro has already started a World's Fastest G4 build! xD

Nice. Now install OS 9 on the TiBook.

Hi Tom. I have the 667Mhz version with gigabit port, fully functional. The only thing that makes my PowerBookG4 a slow machine is the 3 level cache; mine has none at all. I don't understand this Apple choice.

Cool

One the Windows side of the world, there used to be a thing with writing CDs. Some CDs were ‘+’ and some were ‘-‘. Depending on your CD-writer - you had to have one that was able to write ‘+’ CDs vs one that could write ‘-‘ CDs. Later on writes and CDs could write/accept both. Can’t remember if we had to format blank CDs before using them.

I love love love iOS powered devices and I think I will get a Apple iMac for my next computer.

OMG your hair as like Steve Jobs.

Did the PSU come with that Powerbook,TDK or MAXELL DVD/RW discs should be alright,Did you enable Mega-Frames in your networking hardware to get it to speed up.

I liked this video very much and hope you can help me. I have a 2006 Mac Mini with Snow Leopard. Is there a way to partition it to run OS 9 as I would love to play older games. One older game I still love is Civilization 3 complete but when I tried to run it on the Mac Mini it kept crashing & I got a message saying I had to have a Power PC G4 with a minimum of 500 megahertz to run it. Can I run the game on a Titanium Powerbook ? I love older Mac games and miss playing them. My other favorites were Diablo 2 and Command & Conquer but I never finished Diablo 3 because I could not kill the monster in the castle courtyard and kept dying. I have games and software going back to System 7 and have almost every manual and install disks for everything after the Performa 550 which I once bought at a garage sale for $50. I had Imac G3s, clamshell Ibooks and Imac DVs as well. I am trying to see if I can get the 2006 to be able to access the net as well. It will run Safari but is very limited. I hope to change the CPU next year and add memory to it. I am afraid to upgrade the OS because I would lose the ability to run Diablo 2 and I looked at about 10 newer Imac games that would run on my Mac Mini and could only find one I would ever play. I also still have my Apple ][GS. ][E, Enhanced ][E, ][C, ][+ & an integer based Apple ][ as well. I also have a 2008 Imac and several Imacs needing repair and a Thunderbolt display I found sitting on the sidewalk that has the glass shattered and the Apple logo broken in a shard and I am hoping somehow to get it restored next year. I am also amazed that the umbrella or lamp G4 which I once had is almost IMPOSSIBLE to find in a 20 inch size now and it goes for outrageous amounts on Ebay. I would love to see someone mod one to run a Mac Mini on it because it was the greatest design for a Mac ever except for the G4 Cube which are getting incredibly expensive as well if you can find one that actually works. I hope to be able to buy both next year because I have a Mac Aquarium that someone made out of a Cube case and it would look so cool to see a Cube running next to a lighted Cube aquarium on my bedroom Mac table. One thing I hated about older Macs is the DVI connector though for displays I will soon be having a 20 inch Cinema Display, a 27 inch Thunderbolt Display and eventually a 30 inch Cinema Display as well because I am visually impaired due to cataract surgery and cannot see small print well. I was very gratified to see that the 30 inch can be used with modern Imacs and apparently maybe my Silicon M1 Mac Mini. I am hoping to find a splitter to allow me to have my Mac Mini connect to the 30 inch and to also allow me to switch to my 2014 Sony Bravia which still runs like new. I need the large screens more than ever because a side effect of getting the EVIL Pfizer vaccine for Covid is it made my hands, fingers, toes and feet go numb with screaming pain and years later that is still happening and one day while I was in bed I dropped one of my Ipads on my right eyeball & I damaged the cataract leans implant & it needs to be replaced.

You should give Core Player a shot for 264 encoded video. It's much more efficient than QuickTime. My dual 1.5GHz G4 MDD can handle carefully-encoded 1080p video with Core Player, and _all_ 720p video--even the high bitrate stuff.

Never been this early

Sim city 4 is a game for ppc. I do have it

Hey Tom. Is it possible that you put in a CD+R instead of a CD-R?

Should’ve used coreplayer for the videos man

Do you still use your 15 inch late 2013 macbook pro? I remember your unboxing all those years ago :)

Please check the iPhone 3GS battery. Every one that I’ve had was destroyed by a swollen battery.

same as mine :)

No such thing as being too early :D

Have you had a 720p video play smoothly on a G4 Mac? In my experience, that simply never works. I have to assume it's because of the paltry bus speed on G4 and earlier Macs, whereas a G5 can play anything I throw at it. Shame that chip ran so hot and couldn't keep up with Intel and AMD in the end, because it would have been interesting to see Apple stick with it.

Any videos coming up what about network videos

Your character is different!

Hey Tom - Would you consider an SSD upgrade for the powerbook?

SSD installation next.

Did I miss the testing of the wifi?

Verbatim DVD/RW Discs should work don't know about TDK DVD/RW Discs.

The white but around the edge is metal. I’m not sure if it’s titanium, or an alloy.

Can it run Mac OS 9?

How can it have thinner bezels 🤯

Tom you can get Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 in English from macintoshgarden.org

The Powerbook looks more modern than that MacBook Pro in a side by side. I'm guessing its a 16:10 rather than 16:9 like the MacBook..

31:20 SPANISH ? Jeez that's French It's not like it's similar language lmao (Yeah the French in me is triggered lol)

i know you probably get this a lot, but where are you from?

QuickTime is shite man, download CorePlayer!