Raw dump here,
and I’m going to open this up for other MR members on the PowerPC and Early Intel forums to report discrepancies and/or demonstrably insufficient info found in the Everymac pages. This is just me doing a quick memory dump before leaving work.
Everymac citation: Some A1138 and A1139 PowerBook G4s shipped with the
PPC 7448 chip [
citation 2], not the PPC 7447a/b.
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Nope. And
nope.
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Everymac citation: The September 2000 iBook G3 (Rev. C, 366/466) shipped with an
EIDE/ATA-2 bus. [
citation 2]
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Nope.
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Everymac citation: The iMac G5 iSight (A1145) supports a maximum of
2.5GB RAM [
citation 2]
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Nope.
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A functional gripe about the Everymac specs, especially as one moves into Intel Macs:
Every instance where “maximum” and “minimum” OS supported by a hardware release is based solely on Apple call-outs. Everymac’s specs allow for no provision (i.e., section) to document unofficial, well-known OS support for a particular Mac shown. This is a shame, owing how more casual visitors of Everymac may be unaware of this extended OS support their Mac might have, consequently either shelving or trashing their Mac prematurely — thus adding to the waste stream and taking away from upcycling.
Even right here on MR forums, even if one is mostly a lurking reader, one can see, often every week or so, how folks are regularly demonstrating, at the one end, a PowerPC Mac is capable of running earlier builds of OS X (and even
OS 9) than what Apple shipped or officially reported as supported; and on the other, the ability for those PowerPC Mac to run
early versions of Snow Leopard.
In another case example oft-revealed here on the MR Early Intel Macs forum, the extensive work done by both
@dosdude1 and the OpenCore team has expanded OS X/macOS options well beyond commonly cited caps established by Apple (and as reported by Everymac). Lion, for example, is often such an official cap for the last 32-bit EFI C2D Macs, while El Capitan officially being so on others from around the same time vintage.
These systems, however,
do run higher — and often reliably so — with community-based patches (e.g., the early 2008 A1260/A1261 MacBook Pro [MacBookPro4,1], which will run up to at least
Mojave/Catalina/Big Sur quite nicely, as will a
2010 MacBook Air with 2GB onboard RAM).
These community knowledge citations, were they reported by community-based specs in some capacity (very much within Everymac’s remit) is invaluable for helping to keep machines is use longer than what Apple “officially” supports.
If I may offer a suggestion, a desk reference like Everymac would be enriched by including a section just beneath the official OS support section [see below
* as a generic example], where Everymac could report higher (and lower) OS versions which are demonstratively known by the Mac user community to run on a particular Mac model — replete with community-based links to static sites which can walk one through the steps on how one may do so on their own Mac. No, those community links aren’t commercial or sponsored, but they are instructive, informative, and are frequently peer-reviewed.
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Unlike, say, a WikiPost or a wiki site, the ability to be certain that corrections be received and implemented promptly, especially these days with the over-saturation of people’s online attention spans, there might be a sense of user discouragement to email a site owner to request a correction, for an expectation that these days, those correction notifications will go unanswered. It’s not your fault or anyone’s fault, but a byproduct of how things are now which might thwart some folks to contact you via your site when they see something amiss.
As a wind-down here (at least from me), I want to thank you for providing Everymac as a service. By and large, the specs info contained within are very useful — especially so for when one is looking at a model’s specs at a quick glance. Also, I acknowledge how this response, kind of quickly all dumped in together at once, might seem like a lot. But in sharing this stuff (and inviting other MR folks to chime in with things they’ve run across on Everymac which left them scratching their heads), I hope it will only improve the quality of information provided on your site.
Thanks for your time. Time for me to go home.
