![]() Tip: The grey installation discs that came with your Mac will not be the correct version of OS X. ![]() For this machine that means OS X 10.5 Leopard. Your Mac will, therefore, need to be running the most up-to-date version of OS X that it possibly can. Whilst iTunes was available on both of these iterations of OS X, it is not not at the level we require for Home Sharing. If you are using a Mac PowerPC G4, dating from around 2005–6, you will often find that it will be running OS X 10.3 Panther or 10.4 Tiger. This means the hard drive will be powered on and off along with the Mac there is no need to remember to switch another device on or off at the wall each time the Mac is turned on or off. It is recommended to use an external hard drive powered by the USB bus, rather than mains electricity supply. It is also far easier to upgrade, in the future, if you find that you are running out of space. The advantage of an external hard drive is that the storage of much more information is possible, and is more cost-effective than replacing the hard drive within the machine itself. This is not going to be enough for lots of music, films and television programmes. The reason that we need an external hard drive is that the hard drive in the Mac is likely to be of a fairly small capacity, such as 40GB. An external hard drive (suggest one powered by USB bus).In order to get a Mac mini G4 (or other Mac G4) up and running, for iTunes, there are going to be a few things that we need to do. It makes sense to run iTunes on an old PowerPC G4 Mac, as these machines are relatively cheap to purchase and it means that you can store all of your media separately to your main Mac. If your main Mac is a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air, using it as an iTunes server means storing all your media on your main device - a device that may have a relatively small SSD. In this tutorial, I’ll be showing you how to get your G4 Mac up to speed in order that you can use it as an iTunes media server for your household. You might also think that these machines are slow and, relatively speaking, useless. ![]() If you’ve been an avid user of Apple Macs for any length of time, the chances are that you have a PowerPC G4 Mac that pre-dates the Macs with Intel processors.
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