Based on the description, this should work in your Mac. One of the prerequisites with PCI USB and or PCI FireWire cards is that it has to have an NEC chipset in it to operate properly in older Macs. NEC chipsets are supported for sleep and deep sleeping Macs. Sometimes, even with the NEC chipset, they can run flaky in sleep mode on Macs. At least in this case, there is some chance that it should function well in your Mac. If it does give you issues, you have the 14 day return policy to return it.

I'd bet it would work fine;). My Mac does the same thing. I believe it's just either current getting to the speaker during startup or a test during startup for the driver that powers the internal speaker. Either way, no big deal. As far as this other PCI USB card goes, some cards w/o the NEC can work fine, but every Mac model is a variable. I read the specs and that review and the reviewer doesn't mention the type of G4 he is using. The chipset doesn't appear to be an NEC chipset, either.

It will work, most likely, but you may encounter sleeping/deep sleep issues with this card in your Mac. You'll know only when you install it. If you can sleep your Mac, now, w/o issues, if you try and sleep your Mac with the new card installed and you try to put your Mac to sleep w/o it not waking up after sleeping, then it's an issue with the card and can't be resolved.

How many USB and Firewire ports of what type do the Power Mac G4 models have? Can you upgrade the ports to USB 2.0 and Firewire 800? All Power Macintosh G4 models have a minimum of two external USB 1.1 ports and two external Firewire 400 ports.

The reviewer did say that he had some problems with using certain USB devices with this card, though. He mentioned the bulit-in USB ports did function better for some devices than the card. I think you'd be better off with your original choice 😉 I have a PCI card with an NEC chipset that worked well and let my Mac sleep under OS X 10.4.11 Tiger.

As soon as I upgraded to OS X 10.5, I lost the ability to sleep my Mac with that card. Caveat Emptor 😉. If you plan on running OS X 10.5 Leopard, be aware that you'll run into snags installing on this machine. 10.5 needs minimum 867 Mhz CPU.

It can also edit footage from a 360º camera – like the GoPro Fusion. PowerDirector is a 10-Time Editors' choice and rated 4.5 out of 5 by PCMag.com. “PowerDirector continues to lead the way among consumer video editing software. Video software for mac computers. • Video formats handled: Hundreds of formats (at least ).

A combo drive for reading the OS X 10.5 installation DVD. 512 MBs of RAM minimum. 1 GB of RAM is recommended. AT least 9 GBs of free HD space. I recommend at least 20 GBs or greater.

And you'll need to purchase a set of OS X 10.5 Leopard retail discs. Do not purchase any grey colored discs from any third party.

These will not work!!!! You need to ask for direct sales at Apple by calling 1-800-MY-APPLE. Hopefully, Apple still has a supply of Leopard discs in stock to still sell. You may need this helper application to get your Legacy Mac up and running on OS X 10.5 Leopard. How to install mac os x on vmware workstation player download. May have same issues and requirements running OS X 10.4 Tiger on this Mac. If you do not have OS X 10.4 Tiger retail discs, my same instructions apply. Leopard requirements/10.5.x.

* Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor minimum system requirements * 512MB of memory (I say 1.5GB for PPC at least, 2-3GB minimum for IntelMacs) * DVD drive for installation * 9GB of available disk space (I say 30GB at least) You have to call Apple & likely ask for a Product Specialist to get it, if they still have it! Helps to tell them you have an iPad/iPhone & you can't run 10.6. There are workarounds if the 867MHz is the only hangup. I will be using Leopard Assist, if I even get around to attempting to install leopard 😀.

I have one more question, Do you still use your G4? I will be using it as a secondary desktop (to go along with my C2D iMac) for word processing and iTunes unitl I get a G5 Powermac.

Btw, if you do still use your G4, Would 1.2GB ram and an upgraded Graphics card be good enough to use as a secondary destkop? I have upgraded the HDD, soon the ram, and the video card was upgraded from the original ati rage pro to an ATY (which I am assuming it is an ATI) 64mb card which handles very very well while running the Snood deluxe game for mac. My G4 is my only, primary Mac. I am, too, going to be 'upgrading' to a newer G5 soon. I need to stay with a PowerPC Mac as I can't afford to both splurge for a brand new Mac and update all of my core software and graphics software to Intel versions in the forseeable future.