It was pretty depressing... It was so annoying when we watched it in class though, as one kid would laugh like crazy at all the 'funny' scenes, which ended up drowning-out the audio. Hmm---it has been 10 years since I first watched it.
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It was pretty depressing... It was so annoying when we watched it in class though, as one kid would laugh like crazy at all the 'funny' scenes, which ended up drowning-out the audio. Hmm---it has been 10 years since I first watched it.
2011:
PowerMac G4 QuickSilver Dual 800 MHz
PowerMac G4 MDD 1.25 Single (2003)
2012:
PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz (June 2003)
iBook G3 600 MHz 12"
PowerMac G4 QuickSilver Dual 800 MHz
PowerMac G4 MDD 1.25 Single (2003)
2013:
PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz (June 2004)
PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz SLSD
iBook G3 900 MHz (courtesy of RedCroissant)
iBook G3 600 MHz 12"
PowerMac G4 QuickSilver Dual 800 MHz
PowerMac G4 MDD 1.25 Single (2003)
2014:
PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz (June 2004)
PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz SLSD
iBook G3 900 MHz (courtesy of RedCroissant)
PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz
PowerMac G4 QuickSilver Dual 800 MHz
PowerMac G4 MDD 1.25 Single (2003)
iMac G5
PowerMac G4 QuickSilver Dual 800 MHz
PowerMac G4 MDD 1.25 Single (2003)
2012:
PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz (June 2003)
iBook G3 600 MHz 12"
PowerMac G4 QuickSilver Dual 800 MHz
PowerMac G4 MDD 1.25 Single (2003)
2013:
PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz (June 2004)
PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz SLSD
iBook G3 900 MHz (courtesy of RedCroissant)
iBook G3 600 MHz 12"
PowerMac G4 QuickSilver Dual 800 MHz
PowerMac G4 MDD 1.25 Single (2003)
2014:
PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz (June 2004)
PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz SLSD
iBook G3 900 MHz (courtesy of RedCroissant)
PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz
PowerMac G4 QuickSilver Dual 800 MHz
PowerMac G4 MDD 1.25 Single (2003)
iMac G5
All of my PPC Macs were obtained this year, 2014. Not bad for just one year.
iBook G3 Clamshell
Power Mac G4 Sawtooth 500 MHz (1 GB RAM BTO Option!)
Power Mac G5 Dual 2.0 GHz
iMac G3 Bondi Blue Rev. B
iMac G3 Tray Loader (Grape)
eMac 700 MHz
iMac G4 700 MHz
Mac mini G4 1.25 GHz
Power Mac G4 Cube 450 MHz
Power Mac G4 Quicksilver 733 MHz
iMac G3 Tray Loader (Lime)
Power Mac G4 MDD Dual 867 MHz
Power Mac G4 Sawtooth 450 MHz
Total 13.
Edit: Also have a Performa 6200CD, so that counts as well. Technically 14.
iBook G3 Clamshell
Power Mac G4 Sawtooth 500 MHz (1 GB RAM BTO Option!)
Power Mac G5 Dual 2.0 GHz
iMac G3 Bondi Blue Rev. B
iMac G3 Tray Loader (Grape)
eMac 700 MHz
iMac G4 700 MHz
Mac mini G4 1.25 GHz
Power Mac G4 Cube 450 MHz
Power Mac G4 Quicksilver 733 MHz
iMac G3 Tray Loader (Lime)
Power Mac G4 MDD Dual 867 MHz
Power Mac G4 Sawtooth 450 MHz
Total 13.
Edit: Also have a Performa 6200CD, so that counts as well. Technically 14.
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When it rains, it pours. I'm now working on deals on two separate Cubes.
Both are similar-I may try to track down a CPU upgrade for one of them.
I'll also add that my first PPC Mac was a PM G5 bought in late April of this year-everything I've listed above has been acquired in 2014, although the Cubes will probably be 2015 purchases when all is said and done.
My two 68K Macs and two of my three Intel Macs were also 2014 purchases. My only non 2014 purchase was the late 2011 Macbook Pro that I bought in April 2012. That was a memorable day-it was the day that University of Kentucky(Lexington KY) and the University of Louisville played each other in the NCAA Final Four tournament. I bought that computer at the Apple Store in Lexington, KY, and had to show my U of L student ID to get the student discount. I'm lucky I walked out of the store alive
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Both are similar-I may try to track down a CPU upgrade for one of them.
I'll also add that my first PPC Mac was a PM G5 bought in late April of this year-everything I've listed above has been acquired in 2014, although the Cubes will probably be 2015 purchases when all is said and done.
My two 68K Macs and two of my three Intel Macs were also 2014 purchases. My only non 2014 purchase was the late 2011 Macbook Pro that I bought in April 2012. That was a memorable day-it was the day that University of Kentucky(Lexington KY) and the University of Louisville played each other in the NCAA Final Four tournament. I bought that computer at the Apple Store in Lexington, KY, and had to show my U of L student ID to get the student discount. I'm lucky I walked out of the store alive
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I have some too - these are all the ones I have owned over the past year.
- 7 PowerMac G4's
- iMac G3 Blueberry
- iMac G3 Graphite
- Performa 6360 (gone now)
- iBook G4 (gone now)
- eMac
I think that is it for now. So I have had 12, but now have 10. Once the Powermacs are gone I will have 4. So sad.
- 7 PowerMac G4's
- iMac G3 Blueberry
- iMac G3 Graphite
- Performa 6360 (gone now)
- iBook G4 (gone now)
- eMac
I think that is it for now. So I have had 12, but now have 10. Once the Powermacs are gone I will have 4. So sad.
Last year, my daughter had an end of the school year party. A few of her friends came over. They spend the day building and setting up eMacs that they got to take home. Talk about party favors! I loved watching them learn.
Oh my God... that's crazy. Hopefully the ones that are given away see good homes! Do you have any portable machines that you'd be letting go of?
That's a lot of eMacs! How did you even lift so many of those things in there?
Posting from one right now, by the way
Well, I guess I'll post my list so far, it's small, but not bad for just getting started in PPC collecting:
PowerMac G5 Dual Processor 2.3GHz
eMac G4 700MHz
Power Macintosh 6100/66
On Order-
9x PowerMac G4 AGP
iBook G4 1.33 GHz
Wish list-
iMac G4
TiBook
PowerBook Pismo
Some Old World ROM computer with OS 9
At some point, I will hope to make a shelving unit and display all of my computers for everyone to see. I am also considering buying either a Macintosh 512ke or SE for the same price ($100) off my local craigslist.
PowerMac G5 Dual Processor 2.3GHz
eMac G4 700MHz
Power Macintosh 6100/66
On Order-
9x PowerMac G4 AGP
iBook G4 1.33 GHz
Wish list-
iMac G4
TiBook
PowerBook Pismo
Some Old World ROM computer with OS 9
At some point, I will hope to make a shelving unit and display all of my computers for everyone to see. I am also considering buying either a Macintosh 512ke or SE for the same price ($100) off my local craigslist.
Many of them have went to my daughter's friends. A dozen went to her elementary school. That took an act of the mayor, almost literally. I don't see many PowerPC laptops go through the government auctions. I have gotten a few white Intel MacBooks but trust me, my daughter always knows a friend that needs one.
We don't just give the kids an eMac. They have to find the right ram, install it, then find a hard drive, install it. They format them, do all updates on them. Trust me, they come away with a little more understanding of how it works.
That's a lot of eMacs! How did you even lift so many of those things in there?
Posting from one right now, by the way
You would be surprised at how many government agencies are getting rid of eMacs these days. Mostly schools. When you buy one of these auctions you have to carry away all the pallets that day. They are often surprise packages. One day, I bought an auction lot. It said five pallets of computers. The photo showed a couple short pallets but I saw three Intel Mac Pros on one of the pallets (two disk drive slots) so I bought the lot. It went for a couple hundred dollars. When I got there, I found that one of the pallets had 24 G-5's shrink wrapped. Another pallet had cinema monitors. The Mac Pros that I had seen and three Mac Minis.
So you never know what you are going to get. I used a forklift getting the pallets into my trailer but it was all me getting them out.
Fortunately, none of those(with the possible exception of the TiBook) are too difficult to find or expensive.
I think I paid $40 for my TiBook on Craigslist, and my Pismo was bought off here for $60 including shipping.
I don't think I've ever bought an OWR Mac(even though I have plenty of them). I've never bought an iMac either-both of my G3s and my G4 were freebies.
If you're just looking to run OS 9, however, the G4s you are about to get make great OS 9 machines. I'll concede that my main OS 9 machine at the moment is a beige G3, but mostly so that I can use peripherals(like my Laserwriter) that don't(generally) work with NWR Macs.
I want to tell you I think that what you do with giving the machines to the kids but having them build them first is great.
how did you get into the government computer auctions?
a score of 24 G5's is huge. I only have 1 Dual 2.0 (busted case) and a quad
Kevin
Actually they were 3,1 and 4,1 machines. I still use two of them. One is used with an El Gato game capture card to catch all the fun stuff that the girls do on the Xbox One and PS4. (The Wii doesn't have an HDMI port.) The other we use as that main computer of the house that is never actually used. it's the one on the desktop in the photo. It is the place where all the photos, songs and other media is stored and where our iPhones/iPads sync too.
Sometimes, I use it but normally, I use my MacBook Pro and the girls use their MacBooks.
There are several good government auctions but here are two. GovDeals and GSA Auctions. NEVER FAIL TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON A WON AUCTION. They will ban you forever and send collections after you.
On the kids building them, I cheat a bit. Often, I'm disassembling what they will be reassembling prior to their arrival. It helps to avoid failures.
A little girl named Amanda tells me the other day that she determined her mother's Dell has a bad VGA port. Keep in mind, she's 12. I asked her how she knows that the VGA port is bad. She rolls her eyes at me and then tells me that she tested the monitor and the cable on another computer. The Dell is still coming to life but the monitor doesn't have anything on it. So she Googled it. She went on to tell me that Dells are junk. But she got a VGA card from another Windows computer. Now her parents think she's a computer genius.
Check out this auction listing in Texas on the GSA site
And this one says it is an unknown MacBook. It's a mid-2010 13" MacBook Pro. Bid is at $73, ends in 3 hours.
If you've got an extra $3500 lying around here's 70 MacBooks (2007 & 2008), that comes to around $50 each.
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Wow! Lucky! My main machine is an aging MacPro 1,1, I need to look out for good auctions that could contain something newer. It runs Yosemite okayishly, I need Yosemite so I can get the latest Xcode.
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Right now, that is a rocking deal. It comes out to $57 per working MacBook plus another 59 for parts or that may work.
That is a pretty good deal. Hm. Too bad they can't officially run anything above Lion. Rawr.
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Deal of the century right here: http://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.Item&itemid=120&acctid=1737
Ah, I see. Whelp, it's great what you are doing---many people nowadays have no understandings of their computers. It's also good that those eMacs got put back to use in schools. It's amazing what can be tossed by schools, working or non-working. My school was having an e-waste drive, and I loaded up. I found a 1TB hard drive sitting right inside the collection bin, and I found that it worked just fine! I pulled out a Lime (tray-loading) iMac G3, complete with keyboard & mouse, and in great condition. I found three working laptops and brought home several other working towers. Hopefully these can find some use though, as I don't have a use for them. In fact, I am using one of the computers as a footrest, as I type this.
What GPU does yours have? I am considering using one of those custom installers to put either Mountain Lion, Mavericks, or Yosemite on my Mac Pro 1,1. However, I have an ATI 2600XT, and I am guessing the graphics will be very choppy if I try that.
Oh, and does the 'Messages' application have issues or just iMessage itself? I have read reports that iMessage doesn't work properly after the hack install. All I need is AIM though, so if that works fine, it's alright with me.
I have an awful GT210. I can iMessage from my machine, and even use phone call forwarding.
