Mac Spotting

[galgot]

Well, that was unexpected, but fun. Check what's in the background on this George Carlin show, a MacPlus ?

 

[dz330]

Spotted a couple iBooks in Hulu's new show "The Dropout". Looks like a special edition iBook G3 Clamshell in graphite and a 14" iBook G4. The show is about Elizabeth Holmes and I wasn't surprised they showed some of her love and fascination with Steve Jobs. They also show the main character visiting a mock Apple store full of macs from 2007.

 

[lepidotós]

Intel, but this MacBook was used to set a room in a model new-build house I went to see a year ago. As a side note, can anyone identify it?
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[Amethyst1]

Intel, but this MacBook was used to set a room in a model new-build house I went to see. As a side note, can anyone identify it?
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That’s a Late 2009 or Mid 2010.

 

[ScreenSavers]

Intel, but this MacBook was used to set a room in a model new-build house I went to see a year ago. As a side note, can anyone identify it?
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A1342 “Unibody MacBook”

 

[B S Magnet]

Macintosh Plus in Star Trek IV. I'm surprised that this hadn't been cited already.

Reportedly the production team originally wanted to use an Amiga 1000 for this scene (colour graphics with a 4,096 palette!) but Commodore in their legendarily unswerving incompetence were short-sightedly angling to sell a machine, not provide one for loan. Apple on the other hand obliged with a loaned Mac. With such mind boggling blunders it's no wonder that Commodore collapsed less than ten years after this film was made.

Riffing on this post and taking it in an absurdist direction:

You need a hero…

…someone to rescue you…

…yeah someone that you can run to…

 

[MultiFinder17]

I get catalogues from time to time with furniture and equipment for my classroom, and there's always some Macs scattered through there.

Got a generic PC running Tiger here.


A lovely TiBook on this cart, though the smaller front view seems to show a Unibody MBP.


And what looks to be a 15" AlBook on this handsome desk.


I'm still impressed to see all these old machines and old software being used in a new catalogue in 2022

 

[B S Magnet]

It’s not an exact science, but this desktop unit in the Gravity Falls Public Library is clearly riffing on the Mac classic form factor:

 

[Project Alice]

I get catalogues from time to time with furniture and equipment for my classroom, and there's always some Macs scattered through there.

Got a generic PC running Tiger here.
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A lovely TiBook on this cart, though the smaller front view seems to show a Unibody MBP.
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And what looks to be a 15" AlBook on this handsome desk.
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I'm still impressed to see all these old machines and old software being used in a new catalogue in 2022

Tiger looks way more modern than modern operating systems and their kindergarten flatness IMO🤷🏼‍♂️ If I was a catalog designer I’d use it too lol

 

[mectojic]

A glorious iMac G3 (Bondi? Blueberry? Can’t tell, but it’s a tray-loader) in the movie Boyhood (2014). This unique film was shot from 2002-2014 with the same cast and director throughout. This scene from the boy’s childhood was probably shot around 2002-2003, and thematically makes sense: it’s a poor household, so it could be second-hand in the movie.

 

[B S Magnet]

View attachment 1996710A glorious iMac G3 (Bondi? Blueberry? Can’t tell, but it’s a tray-loader) in the movie Boyhood (2014). This unique film was shot from 2002-2014 with the same cast and director throughout. This scene from the boy’s childhood was probably shot around 2002-2003, and thematically makes sense: it’s a poor household, so it could be second-hand in the movie.

What catches my eye here is the keyboard: that appears to be a bondi blue keyboard, but extended (?!).

The iMac is bondi blue — the tells being the frosted finish of the early, bondi-only iMacs and the metal shell within, covering the internals. The teal in the bondi blue iMacs is slightly more green-shifted than “blueberry” (which, of course, looks nothing like the hue of a blueberry).

 

[Amethyst1]

This scene from the boy’s childhood was probably shot around 2002-2003, and thematically makes sense: it’s a poor household [...]

... and would probably be more likely to have a second-hand PC rather than a second-hand Mac, unless it was free.

 

[mectojic]

... and would probably be more likely to have a second-hand PC rather than a second-hand Mac, unless it was free.

True that. And I think this looks like a classroom environment anyway – since you can see a second Apple keyboard and puck mouse in the background.

What catches my eye here is the keyboard: that appears to be a bondi blue keyboard, but extended (?!).

It's just regular. Perhaps the angle just makes it look longer than normal?

 

[B S Magnet]

It's just regular. Perhaps the angle just makes it look longer than normal?

Never mind — I’d forgotten the M2452s included a 10-key pad (a feature absent on more recent, non-extended keyboards sold by Apple). In my mind, “extended” was referring to the 10-key pad portion more so than the “island” containing the F13–F15, the home/end, page up/down, and fn keys.

Sorry. It’s been a long day.

 

[netsrot39]

I've recently started watching the third season of "¿Quién mató a Sara?" and spotted an iBook G4 and iMac G4 which do make sense considering the series jumps back and forth (meaning it depicts flashbacks that are set in around 2003 or 2004)

What I do find funny is that the iMac G4 evidently runs Windows XP . Anyways a good series that I can highly recommend.

 

[Amethyst1]

What I do find funny is that the iMac G4 evidently runs Windows XP .

That looks like something else with a not-very-convincing “theme” slapped on. I mean, it’s not even full-screen: look at the black bars at the left and right.

 

[originaldotexe]

its technically not a mac, but L's setup in Death Note (2006) is definitely meant to resemble a g4 mdd & acrylic cinema display

 

[Jack Neill]

I've recently started watching the third season of "¿Quién mató a Sara?" and spotted an iBook G4 and iMac G4 which do make sense considering the series jumps back and forth (meaning it depicts flashbacks that are set in around 2003 or 2004)
What I do find funny is that the iMac G4 evidently runs Windows XP . Anyways a good series that I can highly recommend.

I remember running XP in a virtual machine on a G4 iBook with VMware I think. It was slower than frozen molasses in Minnesota in January.

 

[Amethyst1]

I remember running XP in a virtual machine on a G4 iBook with VMware I think.

VMware is x86-only. That must have been Virtual PC.

 

[B S Magnet]

I remember running XP in a virtual machine on a G4 iBook with VMware I think. It was slower than frozen molasses in Minnesota in January.

Ah, so dontcha know ya gotta fire up an indoor wood-burning stove (drop in a PPC7448 CPU) to use da molasses in January then!

 

[MajorFubar]

Craig David was using what was very evidently a Macbook Pro of some sort at the Queen's Jubilee concert on Saturday night, but there was a cover on it to hide the Apple logo, presumably at BBC's request.

Whoops just realised this is for PPC only...ignore me.

 

[B S Magnet]

Whoops just realised this is for PPC only...ignore me.

Early Intel Macs also are fair game here — classic Mac Pros, unibody (pre-Retina) MacBook Pros, etc.).

 

[Jack Neill]

VMware is x86-only. That must have been Virtual PC.

I think your right, its been so long ago...

 

[Amethyst1]

I think your right, its been so long ago...

You know, for the ultimate slow-as-molasses experience, you could run VMware within Virtual PC!

 

[B S Magnet]

OK. Apple, a multi-trillion-dollar company, are now just messing with us.

The Apple-produced series, For All Mankind, is in its third season presently. The story line, if you’ve never seen it, is basically the fabled Cold War space race of the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, but set on an alternate timeline from ours.

On this timeline, the current episode being set around 1992 or 1993, we are seeing several cameos (so far) for a non-existent product made by Apple, even though it uses a model number from an actual Apple product.

May I introduce the Newton MessagePad 120 — except on this timeline, the MessagePad 120 sports a colour, active-matrix LCD, a distinctly different industrial design, a video camera add-on (possibly hot-swappable with an IR add-on… think Handspring’s SpringBoard tech, applied to the Newton), and (you guessed it) a Newton OS which supports video calling and other internet activities, such as d-mail (ostensibly, “digital mail”).

And I don’t care if this isn’t a Mac: we all know this belongs right here.

Additionally, on this timeline, we also see a few years’ bump ahead with laptop features and tech. So far, I haven’t spotted any alternate-timeline-product PowerBooks yet, but if I do, I’ll post them.