In a blog post this week, software engineer Andrew Rossignol (my brother!) detailed how he managed to run generative AI on an old PowerBook G4. While hardware requirements for large language models ...

A software developer has proven it is possible to run a modern LLM on old hardware like a 2005 PowerBook G4, albeit nowhere near the speeds expected by consumers. Most artificial intelligence projects ...

I was trying to refrain from making this thread, but I just cannot decide which PowerBook would be better for me. I'm a Biomedical Computing Science major in undergrad, and will do Bioinformatics in ...

Today Daystar Technology announced their XLR8 MAChSpeed G4 PowerBook Aluminum Upgrades. Daystar claims that the low-power 7447 G4 CPU’s are 100% compatible with everything you run today on Panther or ...