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gavinstubbs09

gavinstubbs09

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So I haven't been here lately and a lot of stuff has been going on (including my PPC macs!). Lately I've been working on my Hackintosh build which has been running great and in the future when I can blow $170 I will get a motherboard tray for an ATX board that will fit into a G5 case (the tray is from France... and isn't cheap!!) so it will look like a true Mac. I also picked up a 2010 13" 2.66GHz MBP off ebay for cheap and turned out to be a better deal then what the seller listed (brought into a pawn shop on the East Coast).

Okay. Where am I at with PPC Macs? Well within the past two weeks I've gained 3 PPCs and got rid of one. The first one was a 500MHz iMac G3 snow white which I bought for $20 and traded a friend for my old 800MHz 15" iMac G4, traded my 2GHz Dual Core G5 for 8GB of DDR3 ram and a 120GB Kingston SSD (both brand new still in the package), and bought a MDD for $30.

The MDD I like. It is quiet, my dual 1GHz MDD was a jetfighter till I replaced the fans. It was originally a single 1GHz FW800 model but the guy I bought it from swapped in a 800MHz dual processor board (from a QS I'd imagine) and runs great. 2GB Ram, 60GB Seagate HD, 64MB GeForce 4MX, AirPort Extreme and OS X Leopard. He even included the stock 1GHz Processor too! I am really liking this machine and have been happy with it!

So just an update, figured you guys would find it interesting :) And yes the MDD is sitting on top of my 2U rack server. 2x AMD Opteron 2.8GHz dual core processors. Great for Minecraft hosting!

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gavinstubbs09 said:
So I haven't been here lately and a lot of stuff has been going on (including my PPC macs!). Lately I've been working on my Hackintosh build which has been running great and in the future when I can blow $170 I will get a motherboard tray for an ATX board that will fit into a G5 case (the tray is from France... and isn't cheap!!) so it will look like a true Mac. I also picked up a 2010 13" 2.66GHz MBP off ebay for cheap and turned out to be a better deal then what the seller listed (brought into a pawn shop on the East Coast).

Okay. Where am I at with PPC Macs? Well within the past two weeks I've gained 3 PPCs and got rid of one. The first one was a 500MHz iMac G3 snow white which I bought for $20 and traded a friend for my old 800MHz 15" iMac G4, traded my 2GHz Dual Core G5 for 8GB of DDR3 ram and a 120GB Kingston SSD (both brand new still in the package), and bought a MDD for $30.

The MDD I like. It is quiet, my dual 1GHz MDD was a jetfighter till I replaced the fans. It was originally a single 1GHz FW800 model but the guy I bought it from swapped in a 800MHz dual processor board (from a QS I'd imagine) and runs great. 2GB Ram, 60GB Seagate HD, 64MB GeForce 4MX, AirPort Extreme and OS X Leopard. He even included the stock 1GHz Processor too! I am really liking this machine and have been happy with it!

So just an update, figured you guys would find it interesting :) And yes the MDD is sitting on top of my 2U rack server. 2x AMD Opteron 2.8GHz dual core processors. Great for Minecraft hosting!

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Yay, glad you are back. We miss your missteps in quad liquid cooling :p.
 
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Welcome back Gavin. :D

I have a Quicksilver and a 17" PowerBook G4. Maybe you've heard…
 
Gamer9430 said:
Welcome back, Mr. Stubbs! While you've been away, Apple announced the PowerBook G5, PowerMac G6, and iMac G6. Also, @bunnspecial took all the remaining PPC macs in existence :p
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Holy cow! I really have been gone for quite some time! Do you know how hot those Power Mac G6 towers run? Or how many fans they have? And does this new iMac G6 have lines all down the screen too? Missed a ton lol
 
gavinstubbs09 said:
Holy cow! I really have been gone for quite some time! Do you know how hot those Power Mac G6 towers run? Or how many fans they have? And does this new iMac G6 have lines all down the screen too? Missed a ton lol
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The PM G6s clock in at about 250 degrees idle, and 325 at max load. It has a grand total of 18 fans and has been officially named the most "Power"-full Mac Apple has ever released. The iMac G6's screen is only lines. Jony Ive thought that by just having the screen be lines is an elegant way for people to figure out their computer is broken, thus they will send it in for repairs, spend a lot of money, then receive another with more lines. It continues in a circle forever and Apple becomes richer and richer with every person who buys one and sends it in for repairs. Tim is sitting on top of his solid gold throne, high above everyone else, and begins to shoot money out from his iMoneyDispenser 3S Plus to all the poor peasants below him. Little do they know they are getting iSteveBucks, as opposed to real money. The peasants grudgingly proceed with their dreary lives serving the kings, TimC of AppleWorld 10c Plus and GabeN of Valvelandia.
 
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The PM G6s clock in at about 250 degrees idle, and 325 at max load. It has a grand total of 18 fans and has been officially named the most "Power"-full Mac Apple has ever released. The iMac G6's screen is only lines. Jony Ive thought that by just having the screen be lines is an elegant way for people to figure out their computer is broken, thus they will send it in for repairs, spend a lot of money, then receive another with more lines. It continues in a circle forever and Apple becomes richer and richer with every person who buys one and sends it in for repairs. Tim is sitting on top of his solid gold throne, high above everyone else, and begins to shoot money out from his iMoneyDispenser 3S Plus to all the poor peasants below him. Little do they know they are getting iSteveBucks, as opposed to real money. The peasants grudgingly proceed with their dreary lives serving the kings, TimC of AppleWorld 10c Plus and GabeN of Valvelandia.
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You forgot how the G6 had a 256-bit cpu that puts it ahead of any Intel processor right now, but the only program made right now that can take advantage of it is the os itself and the built in chess game
 
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Orizence said:
You forgot how the G6 had a 256-bit cpu that puts it ahead of any Intel processor right now, but the only program made right now that can take advantage of it is the os itself and the built in chess game
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How foolish of me, and it was such a big deal at the PR...
Also, don't forget the Bomb App is also optimized for the 256-bit OS!
 
Gamer9430 said:
How foolish of me, and it was such a big deal at the PR...
Also, don't forget the Bomb App is also optimized for the 256-bit OS!
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Its so hard trying to keep up with all this new technology, how could I forget that. I really loved how the G6 is also liquid Hydrogen cooled, such great engineering.
 
Orizence said:
Its so hard trying to keep up with all this new technology, how could I forget that. I really loved how the G6 is also liquid Hydrogen cooled, such great engineering.
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And how could we forget the all important fact that there are 4 Octa-core G6s in it?! Or the fact that it's running OS XI Tabby, while all the losers on Intel are still on OS X.
 
gavinstubbs09 said:
This new G6 has no hard drive or optical drive right? It all runs in the ram and is lost every time the power goes out? Sounds like a smokin' deal take my money!
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Yup, it has 512GB of DDR5 RAM, and it only costs the amazing low price of $15,000! Great thing to compliment your Apple Watch or Apple Watch Edition!
 
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