G4 Powermac Hardware advice

[commodorejohn]

Hey, congratulations! You've got the best OS9 machine there is, as well as a solid MorphOS box. You might want to re-do the thermal paste on the CPU heatsink, though, as a preventative measure - my MDD came with it cracked, dry, and utterly ineffective, and suffered from constant overheating, but I slopped some Arctic Silver on there and it runs great now.

As for the mouse and keyboard, I can't speak for wireless, but I've yet to run into a wired USB mouse or keyboard that doesn't work with USB Macs.

[commodorejohn]

Actually, multiple manufacturers did. The problem was just that they didn't work well with PCs that expected the mouse to be connected directly to the motherboard and not through a hub, so half the time you wound up connecting them separately anyway.

That and the fact that PCs already had dedicated ports for mouse and keyboard and it was pretty stupid to waste perfectly good USB ports on them. (Of course, that was true of Apple as well, but St. Jobs decided that ADB was Old and therefore must be done away with even though it was perfectly satisfactory.)