Power Mac G4 Digital Audio
| Make | Apple |
| Model | Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio) |
| Release Year | 2001 |
| CPU | 733MHz PowerPC 7450 (G4e) |
| Memory | 1.5GB |
| GPU | ATI Radeon 7500 |
| Storage | 120GB SATA SSD (w/ SATA to ATA adapter) and 80GB ATA HDD |
| OS | Mac OS 9.2.2, Mac OS 10.4.11 "Tiger" |
I found this computer at a garage sale in June 2017. Since then it was the "mothership" of my setup for a long time. It acted as a file server for the other computers and was most often the one performing long file compression, copy, video encoding, and other operations of the like.
When I originally bought it, it had a DVD-R burner, 512MB of RAM, a 16MB ATI Rage 128 Pro, and an 80GB spinner in it. It also is in the case of a QuickSilver, despite the motherboard identifying itself as a Digital Audio. It's the 733MHz model, so it really could have been either at first glance. What tipped me off however was the fact that the case stated the processor was clocked at 867MHz, which was in direct opposition to the reported clock speed, indicating it was not the original case, as well as the lack of large drive support on the motherboard. It didn't have any wireless capabilities built-in.
I immediately started looking for upgrades, being able to find an Iomega ZIP100 drive in an old computer that had been discontinued from use a year or two prior. I was also able to find a Linksys 802.11g card that I was able to use in Mac OS X, although I had no joy in OS 9. After those initial upgrades, I began to look online for further enhancements. The first order of business was ordering an official AirPort card to put in the slot in the machine, this would allow me to use OS 9 online. Next I bought RAM as well as an SSD (along with the required adaptors) and a USB 2.0 card.
As it stands the machine has Wi-Fi connectivity in both OS X Tiger and OS 9, 1.5GB of RAM (the maximum it can have), USB 2.0 in OS X, a 120GB SSD, and a ZIP100 drive. Near the end of that year the DVD burner started to die and it wasn't until recently that I was able to replace it (I had tried once before and had gotten one damaged in shipping, the money I had allocated for that later went to buying my Mid-2009 MacBook)
Since moving in February of 2022, it has seen much less use. However, it still sits under my desk and I power it on for various projects of mine. Earlier this year, I upgraded the ATI Rage 128 Pro card that had come with it to an ATI Radeon 7500 card. It also has its original hard drive installed alongside the SSD, and that is used as a data storage disk.