One day, I managed to snag a couple of Power Mac G4 systems from a local computer recycler/reseller, and I thought I should film my progress with cleaning them up and getting them up and running.

Calling this a "restoration" is honestly being quite generous. I just cleaned them, gave them new hard drives, and installed their operating systems. And yes, despite their outward appearance, these two machines are actually quite similar to one another.

00:00 Intro 01:02 The Machines 01:52 Graphite Intro 03:09 Graphite Cleaning 04:48 Graphite Internals & Hard Drive Installation 06:41 Graphite First Power-On 07:20 Failing Optical Drive & Replacement 09:49 Starting Mac OS 9 Install & Disk Troubleshooting 17:54 Mac OS 9 Post-Install First Boot and Brief Exploration 23:33 Quicksilver Intro 24:52 Quicksilver Cleaning 26:33 Quicksilver Internals & Hard Drive Installation 28:03 Quicksilver First Power-On and Mac OS X Installation 32:18 Mac OS X First Login 34:28 Shrek 2 Gameplay Demo 37:16 Quake 3 Gameplay Demo 41:06 Quicksilver Boot Speed Test 42:12 MDD Boot Speed Test & Brief Look 45:07 Graphite Boot Speed Test 46:16 Model Revision Comparison 47:47 Open Firmware Math Shenanigans 48:52 Sun Microsystems Monitor from Thrift Store 50:17 Wrap-Up