Update on G4 bargain box!
Another update.. damn power supply seems to have gone!! Gah..what a rip off 
hmm think I can fix it easily enough… too much forum 31 activity brought it down I think :p
Oh yeah! Another update
Today I swapped out the CD-RW of the original 733 quicksilver edition I have, and after some fumbling and frustrations, installed the Optorite DVD-RW I had from an old PC…CAVEAT - this did take me about 21/2 hours 
Amazingly, the CD burn works on it- using Liquid CD (much better than builtiin Os X burner, which I havent tried)! The DVD Rom (reading for playback of DVDs - is essentially why I wanted it, as I was confident of this always working, after reading the xlr8yourmac.com archives on Tiger and 3rd party DVD drives).
As soon as I can get a burnable DVD RW disc, I will try the burn function of that. It is a very fast dual layer drive I have, so this will be interesting as there are not many 3rd party DVD players for the Mac I think. Will submit a reader report once I have one to the xlr8yourmac database. Hey, I want to show off like everyone else!
I have been able though to transfer lots of music onto this mahcine, as I have backups of my tunes on DVD drives back from when I had my PC tower.
Heres the info on the wireless I installed yesterday:–
Writing this after a 60 second total time addition of wireless AirPort extreme to my G4 powermac 733 QuickSilver
The card that I got off eBay, Buffalo WLi 2 54 PCI card, for under a tenner, including delivery(!) easily went in to the nifty QuickSilver PCI slot.
Restart the Machine, on os X 10.4.3 (about to update now ) and it immediately asked me, upon login, to join my neighbour’s free wireless connexion! Sweet! Didn’t even have to configure anything - the wonders of the Broadcom chipsets on Os X.
It is recognised as Airport Extreme by the System Profiler. Interestingly it is getting 3 bars of the wireless signal too (it has a nice wee external antenna), whereas my iBook beside it, gets only 1. It seems faster (because of this? Not sure…) too…
…now to get all my essential apps on to this beauty of a G4..although it is kinda noisy
Also picked up a monitor for under a 100, it’s a HannsG 17″ 1440 x 900 — not too bad at all and is running at nice speed on the Quicksilver, at 60Hz.
Thanks biotron for a great machine! Soon I will have these key apps on it
- Opera 9.5 beta (not tried this - you should - its the fastest full feature web going!)
- TextMate
- VLC
- QuickSilver (hey it IS A QuickSilver!)
- Monolingual to get some diskspace
- Fixation (bien sur!)
- Sigma chess
- Perian
- Transmit
- Unison
- Xee
- Graphic Converter
- MacJanitor
- Adium
- Nokia Mac Updater
- Subversion
- TinkerTool
- TextPander
- Salling Clicker
- Double Command (allows forward delete)
- Vienna
- LiquidCD (easy multi burn of CDs on OsX)
yeahhhhhhhhh, fanboys power ACTIVATE!