A fairly nice Apple Powerbook G4 12' 1.5 GHz Laptop with Super Drive and Airport Card.Here's what I've collected off of eBay now: According to the SheepShaver info you could run 10.5 with classic support. Unfortunately you can't boot this G4 from OS9 and would need to go back to 10.4.11 in order to install classicĮnvironment. You can use a firewire connection to an external HDD which can be cloned to and will boot the Mac. I use it almost daily and can highly recommend getting one at todays prices. I have one of these 12' G4 powerbooks with 1.5GHZ, 1.25GB RAM, 80GB HDD. The G4 12' you are looking at appears to be in good condition and can be a valuable addition. A great number of Mac users refuse to upgrade to 10.7 or 10.8 because they still need to use the PPC software. When 10.7 was introduced Rosetta was abandoned and everything had to be pure Intel compatible from that point. With OS X10.6 they still had Rosetta which allowed PPC applications to run on the Intel Macs. They enabled Classic Mode up to OS X 10.5.8 and after that it was abandoned. In 2003 Apple decided to abandon booting via OS 9 on any Mac they made. The two Macs that I had dual boot with OS X and OS 9 were made in 20.
The 1.5GHz G4 PB was one of those that could not boot from OS9 but could use classic environment if operating with 10.4.11.
