Am I the only one who prefers to imagine this trackpad has a mustache? I've never seen one of these, simply amazing. You are gassing my up eBay/Goodwill Auction addiction hobby with all these beautiful plasticy thangs.
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Plastic Fantastic Club
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That's rad! IS that 9.2.2 installed on it?
How is 16Mb RAM?
To the Club I present a machine that needs little introduction. The original Golden Mac. Of eBay Bargain fame and recently re-setup, of course I'm talking about the Six Dollar eMac.
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That's pretty darn impressive for six dollars. I bet it's a lot of fun to play on, even now.
No, it's 8.0. I don't know that 9.2.2 would run on this anyway - and probably not at all in 16Mb. 8.0 is good though. It's actually quite responsive, though I did consider regressing it to 7.6, which I think is the earliest it can run.
That's good to know that 16MB is responsive on OS 8.0. It would be cool to check out 7.6 as well, though. At some point.
It's the best Unreal Tournament machine in the entire Lab! Not even the later PowerBooks can run it like the Six Dollar eMac. It's all in that refresh rate.
OK, I will admit that dragging a PowerBook 2400 into a PPC thread was a bit of a stretch, but I seem to have got away with it, and it's a very cool little system anyway.
But for your enjoyment, I present to the club this almost universally hated - or at least very much derided - actual PPC. It's my $200 barn find, brand new, PowerBook 5300cs. Yes, new, and previously still sealed up in original packaging, 1997 vintage 5300.
But wait, 1997? They stopped production in 1996 didn't they? Yes, they did, but Apple hand-assembled a number of these to go into the extended repair program, and this is one of them - though never used. I have posted it before in the 'eBay finds' thread, but thought it deserved a place here, being that plastic is much of why these were so disliked.
Base 16Mb RAM and Mac OS 7.6, with a 750Mb hard drive, this is having software installed from a SCSI2SD 'thumb drive'.
It runs like new, because it is, though with a 5300 that doesn't necessarily mean much! It is a great little laptop, the battery has about 1 hour of run time, which is amazing for a never before used 26 year old, and its only quirk is that sometimes the trackpad doesn't work when the system is booted up.... and in at least a nod to the 5300's tradition of bad plastics, the 5300cs badge is actually snapped because it doesn't quite fit the cutout in the display panel.
One of my all time faves!
But for your enjoyment, I present to the club this almost universally hated - or at least very much derided - actual PPC. It's my $200 barn find, brand new, PowerBook 5300cs. Yes, new, and previously still sealed up in original packaging, 1997 vintage 5300.
But wait, 1997? They stopped production in 1996 didn't they? Yes, they did, but Apple hand-assembled a number of these to go into the extended repair program, and this is one of them - though never used. I have posted it before in the 'eBay finds' thread, but thought it deserved a place here, being that plastic is much of why these were so disliked.
Base 16Mb RAM and Mac OS 7.6, with a 750Mb hard drive, this is having software installed from a SCSI2SD 'thumb drive'.
It runs like new, because it is, though with a 5300 that doesn't necessarily mean much! It is a great little laptop, the battery has about 1 hour of run time, which is amazing for a never before used 26 year old, and its only quirk is that sometimes the trackpad doesn't work when the system is booted up.... and in at least a nod to the 5300's tradition of bad plastics, the 5300cs badge is actually snapped because it doesn't quite fit the cutout in the display panel.
One of my all time faves!
Update to my collection. 1.42 GHz iBook 14 inch in the mix. My 17-inch Powerbook is on the monitor being mirrored.
17 inch Powerbook, iMac G5, 20 inch ACD, Powerbook G4 12 inch, iBook G4 1.07 GHz, and the iBook 14 Inch.
17 inch Powerbook, iMac G5, 20 inch ACD, Powerbook G4 12 inch, iBook G4 1.07 GHz, and the iBook 14 Inch.
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