It pains my greatly that I am too young to have truly experienced PPC Macs.Intel? Hahaha.
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It's never too late to join! I was way past the PPC times when I got into Macs and now I have 16 PPC Macs (and I'm constantly getting more)!
I wish my bank balance agreed
. The closest I've been is being sat across from a strawberry G3 when someone brought it into the office, but they already had a buyer in line.
If that was you on screen, I'd give you two 'likes'.........I think this is about as close as I can get to photogenic.
Agree with Gamer9430, it's not too late unless your dead
I'm 17 and never experienced PPC Macs in their heyday (as a matter of fact, I've never had a Mac before, and I still have no Intels!), but my collection is rapidly growing. It's a matter of knowing where to look and hunting for 'em!
I'm 17 and never experienced PPC Macs in their heyday (as a matter of fact, I've never had a Mac before, and I still have no Intels!), but my collection is rapidly growing. It's a matter of knowing where to look and hunting for 'em!
Now I'm starting to feel old. Kids. Get off my lawn!
Gotta love those portholes, though.
I started college around the time the transition was complete(I think the Mac Pro was announced later that fall). I was not a "Mac guy" then. I'd used Apple IIs in elementary school, and my high school had a "Mac Lab" full of tray load iMacs. The IIs were only ever booted directly into "educational" software. The iMacs had a poor reputation for reliability, although I suspect much of that was due to poor maintenance and being constantly tinkered with.
Aside from that, I was close to switching my freshman year of college. My room mate had a 15" DLSD that I thought was absolutely incredible, but I had a hard time justifying the price of a used one. With the wariness about Intel processors that was inherent in a lot of Mac users(or at least the ones I talked to) around that time, late model PowerBooks were holding their value incredibly well and, of course, could still be bought from Apple in the refurb store. There were also a couple of G4 towers in the back of one of the computer labs that could print for free so I did make heavy use of those.
My first Mac was an Intel(late 11 13" pro) but once I got the PPC "bug" I rapidly made up for lost time.
Aside from that, I was close to switching my freshman year of college. My room mate had a 15" DLSD that I thought was absolutely incredible, but I had a hard time justifying the price of a used one. With the wariness about Intel processors that was inherent in a lot of Mac users(or at least the ones I talked to) around that time, late model PowerBooks were holding their value incredibly well and, of course, could still be bought from Apple in the refurb store. There were also a couple of G4 towers in the back of one of the computer labs that could print for free
so I did make heavy use of those. My first Mac was an Intel(late 11 13" pro) but once I got the PPC "bug" I rapidly made up for lost time.
Well if there is a 'bug around', I seem to be getting permanently stung!
At the end of Dec last year, I started to become interested in the Powerbook G3 range and earlier. Within a month I'd found a superb Pismo, and 2 older Powerbooks rapidly followed, a 145 gifted (yet to be received), and just finished negotiating for a pretty cheap but nice 3400c.
Is there a cure doc, or is it terminal?
It's pretty much terminal but it can be involuntarily arrested from time to time by your wife or girlfriend.
I started with old Macs after reading the "Steve Jobs Biography" and browsed the Web about Eichler-Houses after they were mentioned in the chapter about Sunny Valley. There had been a picture of an acrylic Cinema Display sitting on the desk of a very sophisticated house.
After that I got my first Cube G4...
Here are pictures at home and at work.
And this is my favourite iBook ...
Graphities...
After that I got my first Cube G4...
Here are pictures at home and at work.
And this is my favourite iBook ...
Graphities...
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I love this Clamshell with the Harman Kardon Soundstick setup! Are all Soundstick versions (1,2 & 3) compatible with this iBook G3?
The original Soundsticks connect via USB and I guess they include their own "soundcard", which then will become the source for audio out. Since the Cube doesn't offer an audio-card, that's the one-cable solution for music-output (like with the original Harman-Cardon Cube-speakers.
The later Soundsticks connect via Audio-out Klinke 3.5. They can be attached to the cube only with a compatible USB-audio-card.
It's also worth mentioning that the "jellyfish" subwoofer only was marketed along side the iMac G3 under the name "iSub." When connected to a computer, the internal speakers(or externals, as the case may be) will work in concert with the iSub. An iSub with something like a pair of "eyeball" Pro speakers(although not the Cube speakers) makes for a very nice set-up. The iSub was supported in OS 9 and up through 10.4 officially. 10.5 can be patched fairly easily to support it, although it will NOT work with any Intel Macs at all.
I would love an iSub, but first order is the USB Pro Speakers for my Cube
[doublepost=1456525361][/doublepost]One of the failing points of the iSub is the capacitors too
Probably incurable. It took all my willpower not to carry on bidding for this after the price went into stupid territory and yet ... the non-buyer's remorse is so strong.
I have a question...
Apple designed these nice vets into the front of the MDD, and then blanked them off inside, why?
Also, related, why do none of the cooling mod posts on the net ever seam to mention them as a possible additional air inlet?
It looks so obvious to me, am I missing something?
(OK, I had 3 questions, not 1 - Never said I could count!)
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The ports aren't blocked off on mine. There is a plate behind the ports, but it does allow air to flow through them.
Interesting.
I always thought those ports and the relocation of the speaker made the MDD models fugly. One of the reasons I've always resisted getting an MDD over a Quicksilver.
I plan on getting an MDD at some point but only from the standpoint of better inside case design and expandibility. My QS will remain my main Mac.
Erik,
I'm more or less with you on the aesthetics. Although I don't use my Quicksilver as much as you do, it still remains my main PPC Mac.
Unlike you, my main one is running a factory processor.
That aside, my dual 1.42 MDD can pretty much match blow-for-blow with the Giga at 1.6 and is faster than the 1.8 Sonnet at some tasks. The Quicksilver is always going to be held back by it's 133mhz bus, whereas the higher end MDDs can not only take more RAM but are faster. Truthfully, if I'm going to keep using a G4 in this sort of work, it's hard to make an argument for NOT using the MDD, except that I just like the Quicksilver better!
For that matter, if I could ever get the SCSI situation sorted out on my dual 2.7, there really IS not an argument against using it for the tasks the Quicksilver now does...