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my new setup that i got up early today to finish:
thats my upgraded powermac g4 mdd (2gb ram, 1tb hdd, DP 1.25ghz, radeon 9600 pro) on the left, and my upgraded 2008 mac pro (8-core 2.8ghz, 16gb ram, radeon hd 7750, 500gb ssd+assorted hdd's) on the right.
i like it, it's very cozy
thats my upgraded powermac g4 mdd (2gb ram, 1tb hdd, DP 1.25ghz, radeon 9600 pro) on the left, and my upgraded 2008 mac pro (8-core 2.8ghz, 16gb ram, radeon hd 7750, 500gb ssd+assorted hdd's) on the right.
i like it, it's very cozy
Indeed. I am about to install some additional shelves in my computer room for extra coziness. I spy the discord app on your desktop.my new setup that i got up early today to finish:
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thats my upgraded powermac g4 mdd (2gb ram, 1tb hdd, DP 1.25ghz, radeon 9600 pro) on the left, and my upgraded 2008 mac pro (8-core 2.8ghz, 16gb ram, radeon hd 7750, 500gb ssd+assorted hdd's) on the right.
i like it, it's very cozy
Waiting to get my G4 Quicksilver out of storage (in about 3 weeks) will go next to the G3. I might fix it a little better but I switch the keyboard between the mac mini and G3. its good to have the computers out of storage
Just a G4 on a desk these days. I am making installs of each PPC OS I can and putting them on a FireWire drive I have with a 7200 320 I had lying around. Just bored and nostalgic.
That's what they need sometimes. And they do give some pleasure when you get them to boot and they are working. I see you have got those Apple Pro Speakers too. With what do you use them with?its good to have the computers out of storage
PB 1.25/2/256 SSD. I have partitioned into 4 drives and have Jaguar/Panther/Tiger/Leopard on this Mac. I was trying to get the OS9 Lives 9.2.2 but had no luck. Right now they are on the internal SSD but I will probably move to the FW800 enclosure that has a 7200 320 Sata drive in it and gets pretty decent speeds. I installed on the internal to start with because I want to clone them to images and transfer them on my Hackintosh internal 2TB SSD. I have been collecting images of all available OS that can run on my machines. So far I have 10.2 through 10.13.
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I've had another addition to the family!
That is so thoroughly late-1990s, down to the small LCD monitor - I love it
Thanks! It's actually a 17" LCD monitor. I do have a couple of CRTs but they're a pain to lug around.That is so thoroughly late-1990s, down to the small LCD monitor - I love it
I did just pick up a 15" monitor for my LC475 yesterday...
I think I recognise the wallpaper - is it this one? It's one of my all-time favourites.
Big Sur's wallpaper looks very nice in that environment!
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It sure is. It's Jökulsárlón in Iceland. I love how moody this pic is. It was lovely and sunny when we were there!I think I recognise the wallpaper - is it this one? It's one of my all-time favourites.
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Big Sur's wallpaper looks very nice in that environment!
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man!!..great to see an LC (pizza box) again...made me think of a WW2 veteran I knew, who bought one and asked if he could hide it from his wife at my place...until he thought up a good story to justify buying it. Gave me my first look at Photoshop.
Not pictured, the Sawtooth desperately needs cleaning, even the plastic is rusty on the back. Also, I have the battery to the iBook, but ever since I saw "don't leave your battery charging because that could damage it" on an Aliexpress page for a Chinese clone, I've kept the battery out when I'm at home. I still have yet to repack it and desperately need to (it gets about 5 minutes), but I will when I have access to my soldering iron.
I like seeing those, too.
I have the Performa equivalent of the LC III, which I found for next to nothing at Goodwill around 2001. I'm thinking I probably only stopped by that Goodwill to kill a few minutes--I remember it being the day when I went to pick up my father after he returned from a vacation. I used that computer for productivity tasks for a period, and it was one of my favorite (if not the absolute favorite) Macs I've used.
Still not fully unpacked from the move a few months back, but here is the new man cave setup. Sorry no posters/pictures hung on the walls yet.
Not shown is another iMac, macbook, and asus eeepc.
Cheers
Not shown is another iMac, macbook, and asus eeepc.
Cheers
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Nice to see this old turd still works, been years since it’s been turned on. Battery is shot though Runs decent except for web browsing and this forum. I’m sure Firefox and safari dropped support years ago.
powerbook g4 15.4”
1.67ghz
Leopard 10.5
1.5gb memory
64gb msata with adapter
Ati 9700 128mb
Not the HD/DVDRW model
Runs decent except for web browsing and this forum. I’m sure Firefox and safari dropped support years ago.powerbook g4 15.4”
1.67ghz
Leopard 10.5
1.5gb memory
64gb msata with adapter
Ati 9700 128mb
Not the HD/DVDRW model
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Recently purchased a Summer 2000 Indigo 350 Mhz iMac G3 from eBay. I bought it not knowing where I'd put it, hence why it's currently on the living room table (I had initially put it on the bedside table in the spare room). It does make a good conversation piece at least!
As for why I purchased it, I bought it because I wanted to have a snapshot of what Mac computing used to be like - a sort of 'time capsule' if you like. I also bought it because this was the computer I always wanted, but never had, as a kid. So yes, I bought it for kid me too 😄. I've even put applications and music on it that I would have had if I owned it when I was younger, just to further create the illusion that I always had it. Is that sad, or creative, I don't know.
Since it's been in my hands I've made a few modifications to it:
As for why I purchased it, I bought it because I wanted to have a snapshot of what Mac computing used to be like - a sort of 'time capsule' if you like. I also bought it because this was the computer I always wanted, but never had, as a kid. So yes, I bought it for kid me too 😄. I've even put applications and music on it that I would have had if I owned it when I was younger, just to further create the illusion that I always had it. Is that sad, or creative, I don't know.
Since it's been in my hands I've made a few modifications to it:
- Replaced the PRAM Battery. It now no longer thinks it's in the seventies every time I boot it up! (Though I'm sure many would love to go back to that decade, it's not just before my time, but the G3's as well)
- Replaced the included 40 GB hard drive which was failing it's S.M.A.R.T tests and extremely noisy, with a 80 GB Seagate hard drive. The speed increase was noticeable straight away but I was blown away even more-so by the noise decrease. The hard drive it came with must really have been dying a death.
- In the process of replacing the speakers, the originals having succumbed to the dreaded foam-rot. I purchased what I thought was a pair on eBay (it showed two speakers in the image), but when it came it was only a single speaker. I've put that in to check that it works and that I'm comfortable with the replacement process, and it works really well. Now just waiting for the second speaker to arrive and it'll be done.
- Software wise, somehow this iMac came to me with Mac OS 10.4.11 installed despite it not being supported on the 350 Mhz model. I had no install disks and the computer had a password I couldn't get around. Therefore I had to burn some install disks of my own, the files themselves courtesy of Macintosh Repository. I decided I'd slap Panther on it being it was the last officially supported version. It's a lot happier with Panther I feel. Later the original Hard Drive started dying and getting all the more noisier (most likely because it wasn't used to writing that much data, being that it probably hadn't done so for a long time). It's a good job I burned those install disks!
This is my current PPC setup as it stands right now.
My main PPC machines at the moment are my 20" iMac G4 and my 12" PowerBook G4. You might also notice my TiBook behind the iMac. The iMac is a new acquisition of mine and have been enjoying it. I've wanted one for 5 or so years and have gotten so close to buying one more times than I can count but never gotten one until now.
I loved my old lampshade G4, it finally passed away and I recycled it. I saw one at the Goodwill Electronics shop I go to and was so tempted to grab it for posterity. I remember when I first got Leopard to work on the 800Mhz G4 I was on cloud 9 all weekend. Probably my fav Mac of all time in terms of emotional attachment.
I've been tempted to use an early OS X era computer a distraction free writing computer. And I've thought that I wouldn't mind having a G4 iMac for this. But none have crossed my path at the right time.
I sometimes saw old Apple computers at the Goodwill store in my area (when they still sold computers). Some were tempting. But the prices were insane. They'd see the Apple logo, and think it was worth $$$$.