A Powerbook G4 is barely fast enough to run a large language model
A software developer has proven it is possible to run a modern LLM on old hardware like a 2005 PowerBook G4, albeit nowhere ...
Software Engineer Runs Generative AI on 20-Year-Old PowerBook G4
In a blog post this week, software engineer Andrew Rossignol (my brother!) detailed how he managed to run generative AI on an ...
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The 8 Best Looking Apple Computers Ever Designed
In comparison to those, the PowerBook G4, the last Apple laptop to use a PowerPC CPU, looks almost impossibly sleek and understated. It's a masterclass of design that lives up to the Power part of ...
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Three Tiny Laptops
Smaller in every dimension than the 12-inch iBook, this machine packed the power of the G4 into a tiny chassis ... need a small, light laptop. Despite these issues, many mobile professionals did flock ...