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    Other It’s data-oriented reports as these which remind why I maintain Apple-“obsoleted” Intel Macs

    Stop… grousing time! UNITAR, the United Nations’ Institute for Teaching and Research, released this week their latest report update on e-waste trends, titled Global E-waste Monitor 2024. They note how the rate of e-waste recycling is now being outpaced by e-waste generation by a factor of...
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    • community effort compelled consumption e-waste early intel macs planned obsolescence unitar united nations upcycling urban mining
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    • Forum: Early Intel Macs
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    Old Mac Pro 1,1 into BBQ

    Hey all, I just have this old Mac Pro 1,1 lying around the house thats clearly past its useby date with upgrades, software updates etc. And since i stopped using it a year ago for a Minecraft server its been collecting dust ever since. But now as i moved into a house with a garden i was...
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    iM 4,1-14,4 Diary of a freebie A1224 iMac7,1: a project to improve it to its outer limits

    After a mess of posts in The Freebies Thread in the PowerPC Macs forum — post #77 and posts #99 through #125 — I felt it was probably appropriate to give this freebie iMac its own thread and due in its own thread, rather than to monopolize a clearinghouse post (for the variety of free stuff the...
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    • a1224 early intel revival imac7.1 penryn reuse reversed obsolescence santa rosa upcycling vintage mac hardware
    • Replies: 44
    • Forum: Early Intel Macs
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    Your free [acquisitions/electronics recycling/dumpster dive] finds: PowerPC Macs edition

    This thread is for PowerPC Macs you’ve either been given for free; found for free; rescued (again, for free) from an electronics recycler; or best yet, a dumpster-dive find. (I’ve also started a parallel thread on the Early Intel Macs forum for found Macs of the Intel variety). Over the years...
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    • free finds powerpc rehabilitation reuse upcycling
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    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
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    Your free [acquisitions/electronics recycling/dumpster dive] finds: Early Intel Macs edition

    Time to get a fresh thread going here… This one’s for Early Intel Macs you’ve either been given for free; found for free; rescued (again, for free) from an electronics recycler; or best yet, a dumpster-dive find. I’ve had a few early Intel Macs in the last few years which have landed in my...
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    The Big Sad: your dead Macs ☠️

    I think a few of us around here have some of these in our homes. Straight-up — list and/or describe the dead Macs you have lying about! They can be donor and also gravely wounded Macs. I’ll start. In my dead lot: A1104 PowerBook G4 (bad RAM bridge, donor) M6411 iBook G3/466 (graphite, dead...
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    • circle of life dead mac the big sad upcycling
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    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
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    The “Legacy iDevices forum” thread: on a new community forum for unsupported iPods/iPhones/iPads (in the vein of the Early Intel & PowerPC forums)

    I was thinking about this topic over the weekend after listening to someone I know share the story of upgrading the 1.8-inch HDD in their iPod with an SSD. And then something clicked in my mind: One thing we don’t have around on MR forums is a forum dedicated for keeping iPods, vintage...
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    • community forums hardware hacks ipads iphones ipods jailbreaking obsolete repurposing upcycling
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    • Forum: Site and Forum Feedback
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    Seeing through clearer eyes: on upgrading an Apple Cinema Display with a higher-res LCD

    So I was thinking about upcycling at the same time as I was looking at my old A1038, the acrylic 20-inch Apple Cinema Display, in its new home (I did some in-home re-arranging last month, and now both my ailing-but-still-running Power Mac G5 and ACD live in a different room, in a different work...
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