Why should I leave him alone? I think my advices are quite relevant, if he finds it out they are too. I personally think he should be happy enough to keep his Mac Pro as relevant as it could be, so running Mavericks would give his Mac Pro a lease of extra use. I would definitely recommend the upgrade, tech. Well, definitely if you have the time for experimentations and it would be wise to back up your data to a time machine before you do anything even. Best of luck.
Some reported huge success, meanwhile some losses some ability with audio, wifi and et cetera. Proceed with caution. Here are some reading you could do, on the comments section. Check with the once similar to your system specifications. Hope I have helped to make your decision easier.
There is another way to do it, that is using a modified bootloader, which functions like a Hackintosh bootloader and will give full support on the hardware. Most Apple kexts are backwards compatible with older hardware. He needs at best a modern NVIDIA graphics card and an SSD to run El Capitan. It's not that hard.
Anyway guys.... i obtained an Aluminium PowerBook G4 Has been through a lot of shit and abuse !! the hdd is not bootable....managed to boot it externally....
its not as easy to replace the hdd in this PB.... gotta to have real ample time for it !
dissected the PowerBook.... hdd is fine, the previous owner did some real shit to it....
- track pad cable broken - lots of screws missing - hdd not detectable, but this may be due to the ATA controller, the hdd spins, so assuming that cable is fine
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ATA controller? Hard Drive can spin too but the HDD PCB can be rosak too.
I know, its sad, i also sold one of my PPC 17" imac, really regret selling, i even much later, contacted the guy and asked him if he wanna sell bAck................ The fellar sold it off!!!!
I have a guy who does good work for me in regards to upgrades.
I reckon a new machine is in order already lah. Can really begin to see the wear and tear, and I dont need such a heavy machine anymore. I didn't pimp this MBP out too much; just 8 GB of Ram and since my old HDD crashed in 2013, I just changed it to a regular HDD as I needed the space.
For web surfing ok lah. Even pushing Adobe CS 6. But lately it's been a bit out of whack. I'll still keep this one though.
Let me know if you want to let it go for cheap
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Haha never. It's too precious! Plus with the current ssd drives, I'm gonna need somewhere to chuck my media right. Oh my MBP has a "beautiful" blue line on the corner of the screen. I've become so used to it (been there since 2013) that itndoesnt bother me
Postage is high, further, scared dunno what will happen in the shipment! This PB was sent by Poslaju,,,, the seller, in spite being an IT guy, just dumped the PB and the charger in one box, without any cushioning !!! Farkkkk, i actually requested a decent packing summore....
Topkek seller. Ask refund la What PB btw? The one you shown us was iBook kan
Thank you. Ha ha.... Its no secret, the Xserve does emit unpleasant noise, but i am not going to run it 24/7. Its a 14y old machine, i dnt wish to strain it either. Just a piece!