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Amethyst1

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...'cause upgrading is boring :p

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This is the slowest socketed CPU the original Intel mini can take.

I've got a couple of other CPUs sitting here/coming in the following days I'll be torturing this little guy with.
 
...'cause upgrading is boring :p

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This is the slowest socketed CPU the original Intel mini can take.

I've got a couple of other CPUs sitting here/coming in the following days I'll be torturing this little guy with.

neat stuff! I have often seen slow/whacky CPUs like that and wondered how they would fair in a real mac :)

I want to see a Celeron 445 in a Mac Pro LOL
 
1.46 GHz? I didn't know Intel even made Core Solos that slow. I thought 1.83 Ghz was the lowest they ever went.
 
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1.46 GHz? I didn't know Intel even made Core Solos that slow. I thought 1.83 Ghz was the lowest they ever went.
Nope! Apple actually put a 1.5GHz Core Solo into the low end original intel mini. I got one of these from a recycle pile a few years back. First thing I did was upgrade the firmware and stick a 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo into it for a zippy little machine!


Part of me has always wanted to stick the Core Solo I pulled from it into my Core Duo iMac just for shiggles...
 
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I wonder if it would work with a same-generation Celeron 215 which runs at 1.33 GHz, and has 1/4 the cache of the Core Solo...

Or if you want to go whole-hog nutso, solder the BGA Celeron M ULV 423 to a Socket-M adapter and run at a whopping 1.07 GHz!
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Though I don't think anything could possibly top danamania installing Panther on a Centris 650.

So what I'm hearing is that I need to install NetBSD on a Macintosh II, run PearPC on that, then run an x86 emulator on *THAT* to boot Catalina?

(You know, I do already have NetBSD running on an SE/30 with 128 MB of RAM and a SCSI2SD adapter...)
 
1.46 GHz? I didn't know Intel even made Core Solos that slow. I thought 1.83 Ghz was the lowest they ever went.

It's not even a full-blown Core Solo - a Celeron has a slower FSB, half the L2 cache and lacks SpeedStep and VT-x.
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I wonder if it would work with a same-generation Celeron 215 which runs at 1.33 GHz, and has 1/4 the cache of the Core Solo...

The 215 was only available soldered to the Intel D201GLY board as far as I'm aware - and Snow Leopard does run on that one, albeit barely. Although if you're going down the Hackintosh route, you might as well throw OS X onto some ~2008 Atom netbook and end up with an even slower machine :p Or the original EwwwwwwPC eeePC with its ~600 MHz Celeron?

Or if you want to go whole-hog nutso, solder the BGA Celeron M ULV 423 to a Socket-M adapter and run at a whopping 1.07 GHz!

I'd go for the Merom-based 933 MHz 523, it should be even slower :)

That being said, I have run Tiger on a 1.07 GHz Core 2 Duo U7500 and it wasn't bad.
 
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Nope! Apple actually put a 1.5GHz Core Solo into the low end original intel mini.

And it was the only machine out there that had the 1.5 GHz one. Others used the 1.66 or faster versions, although I haven't seen a 1.83 or 2.0 anywhere yet.
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So this is what we are down to now, making the slowest Macs we can :mad:
Better than having it just collect dust.

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Part of me has always wanted to stick the Core Solo I pulled from it into my Core Duo iMac just for shiggles...

I want to do this on a 2006 24" iMac - that would be a unique machine :D
 
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Although if you're going down the Hackintosh route, you might as well throw OS X onto some ~2008 Atom netbook and end up with an even slower machine :p

not sure if I ever posted it here, but I did just that a little while ago LOL (now @dosdude1 and @parrotgeek1 got 10.7.5 booting on 32bit only machines I should try hack Lion onto it for maximum misery)

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just managed to upload its GB result too :)


tried to at the time but it failed for some reason
 
not sure if I ever posted it here, but I did just that a little while ago LOL

I ran Snow Leopard on a Dell Mini 9 - same Atom N270 - aeons ago. :) For a while, it was a family member's main machine until that person got an iPad (it was for websurfing only).

And I sure as hell am going to try coaxing Lion onto that Celeron Mac mini of mine :p

Edit: I also briefly played with Leopard on the first Atom mainboard to ever hit the streets - here's my decade-old thread on that oddball thingy for the LOLs

 
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not sure if I ever posted it here, but I did just that a little while ago LOL (now @dosdude1 and @parrotgeek1 got 10.7.5 booting on 32bit only machines I should try hack Lion onto it for maximum misery)

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just managed to upload its GB result too :)


tried to at the time but it failed for some reason
This is the best slow Hackintosh, with a 1.2 GHz Core Solo U1400.

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...'cause upgrading is boring :p

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This is the slowest socketed CPU the original Intel mini can take.

I've got a couple of other CPUs sitting here/coming in the following days I'll be torturing this little guy with.
I’ve always been curious as to how a Core Solo fairs against a PPC. You should run some tests. Lol
 
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