From what I've read on the cMP GPU thread, those will both, ideally need flashing to get Boot Picker and sort out possible fan problems. They also both need additional power beyond the two mini-6-pin PCIe outputs. So potentiallya fiddly job.
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Compatibility-wise, a GTX680 is easy to flash (on Windows), has the same compatibility (up to Mojave without patching), and is probably cheaper to get hold of. If you go this route, get an EVGA GTX680SC, as that has the higher frequencies of the 4GB model but costs a lot less used.
Yes, I am familiar with the power requirements and what it means in cMP's case. If I would at some point install it to my cMP to replace the RX580 then I would probably go Pixlas mod route.
The flashing stuff has gone from clear "yes you need to do it" to maybe, perhaps - after enableGOP thing arrived to the scene. And even more confusing to me after it arrived to OCLP too, earlier it was needed to be injected to cMP ROM to work. So, as I haven't yet had a need to study what the current situation is I do not know how it works. That is why I am asking.
But, note - at this point I am planning to try if a Vega 56 could work in an eGPU case and with other Macs than the cMP, so the power thing is sorted out for the time being.
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I already have a RX580 in my cMP and another RX580 in the eGPU case. So, I am looking for an upgrade.
The RX580 is 62% and Vega 56 141% faster than the GTX680SC.
I can get the Vega 56 for ~75-80€ locally so that is not so bad. There is one for 50€ but its pickup only and a bit too far away.
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I took @Michael Maddan's advice and purchased a metallic navy blue vinyl skin for my 2008 17" MBP. I'm pretty happy with it:
It's not perfect, a situation able to be remedied with patience and an exacto knife (neither of which I have, unfortunately). But it's close enough for me, and I think it enhances the machine's looks.
For anyone wondering what's going on with the black stuff on the backlit Apple logo, I wrote about that in another thread.
It's not perfect, a situation able to be remedied with patience and an exacto knife (neither of which I have, unfortunately). But it's close enough for me, and I think it enhances the machine's looks.
For anyone wondering what's going on with the black stuff on the backlit Apple logo, I wrote about that in another thread.
I'm liking the skin. I have a 2007 and the 'logo slippage' is much more severe, but like you, the chances of me removing the display to fix it - zero. Also have a 17" G4. No issue.
Bought a Razer Core X eGPU -case and a Vega 56 Red Dragon for it. The card is huge but so is the case so it fits - just. The case has a upgraded PSU and a silent case fan. I tested this with my MBP 2012 13" i7 but plan to use it with Mac Mini 2012 i7. I just needed to see that it works. The case was 100€ and the GPU 70€.
I today used GIMP with the Mac Mini + eGPU and it was super fast vs. my 2011 iMac with non Metal GPU and OCLP Monterey. Little thing but feels big that your cursor and tools move quickly vs. lag behind. But, I guess this would be same with any Metal compatible GPU (incl. Minis original GPU).
I also installed OCLP+Monterey+Kryptonite to the Mac Mini but ran into no Bluetooth-problem. Didn't find solution to it yet. Annoying little problem. Do not know why it affects some machines with OCLP+Monterey (or anything newer than Big Sur) but not others. For example my 2011 iMac Bluetooth works just fine. Maybe its because different BT-cards or something?
I also installed OCLP+Monterey+Kryptonite to the Mac Mini but ran into no Bluetooth-problem. Didn't find solution to it yet. Annoying little problem. Do not know why it affects some machines with OCLP+Monterey (or anything newer than Big Sur) but not others. For example my 2011 iMac Bluetooth works just fine. Maybe its because different BT-cards or something?
Today I designed a Final Cut Pro 6 Cheatsheet and designed an intro clip. The cheatsheet I typed up in Pages 09 and headed down to my local Staples to have it bound.
I might, repeat *might*, be getting hold of a 2017 21.5" 4K iMac. I know it's not 'Early Intel', but for £50...it's Early Intel pricing!
Got it. Boxed. MM2 and MK2 included! Not quite sure what the seller had done to it, but it was an Early Intel Mac type solution to the rescue! @dosdude1 patched Catalina installer, which seems to boot just about anything from 2009 onward, got it kicked back into life. Now upgrading itself to Ventura, then we'll see where we go from there.
It's a 3.4GHz i5, 8GB RAM, 1TB Fusion Drive. Quite a lot of Mac for 50 squids.
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The 17" laptops are both rare and awesome-looking.* Never trash one of those. Mojave running in dark-mode on one of those is spectacular-looking.Same. After the recent death of the late-2011 hi-res MBP, I've decided to really cull those that I really don't need. So to that end, I'll probably lose the 17" as mentioned, 2011 MBA, 2011 Mini. Then again...maybe not.
(Imagine you're an executive in a boardroom melodrama, and you pull this huge monster out of an attache case and set it on the conference table where it dwarfs all the much smaller backpack tablets and 13" notebooks.)
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You're right, and I've decided to stick with it! However, it's a 2007, so Mojave not an option. Currently running El Capitan, also runs MX Linux well.
Put El Capitan on it, and run Basilisk and Chromium-legacy as your browsers. (You'll very much want to disable the crap out of MRT, MDS_Stores, Spotlight indexing, and especially ReportCrash iwith Terminal commands.) Wju ElCap over, say Lion or Mavericks? ...you can run a later version of Parallels
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Playing around with some Macintosh Repository apps on my mid-2007 black MacBook. I love how useful this old device can still be almost 20 years later.
It's astonishing how snappy those old machines are, unburdened by "modern" operating systems tasked with simultaneously spying on the users while jackhammering the drive to wear them out after warranty expiration.
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The thing is, these are toys. Any serious work (which is pretty much nothing anyhow...) is done on an overpowered Windows box, or my new-to-me Retina iMac. So I don't need to run anything in the way of programs. My actual computing needs, including the only PC game I play, can be done on a the last-resort 1.1GHz Celeron netbook!
It's all just for fun. But I'd like to follow up on the disabling of unwanted stuff in El Capitan. Have muzzled Spotlight. How does one go about the rest? Can't seem to find a lot online.
I would assert that any computer made from 2011 onward is fast enough for 99% of users, Only high-end games and deadllne-chasing video renderers need top gear. Otherwise, new computers are nitromethane dragsters idling at a stop light waiting for the human to push a key so they can putter to the grocery store. The OEM has to invent new, improved ways to make yesteryear's dragster seem slow. (Five will get you ten that the upcoming Tahoe's half-baked Vista transparency nonsense that absolutely no one cares about will require a super-spliff video-card or everything will glitch, and this will be the latest excuse to swear that your 2019 rocketsled won't be able to do what Vista did almost twenty years ago in 1gb of ram at 1ghz.)
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Hello there.
I have two Intel Macs that, as good as Apple hardware is, still function very well. Unfortunately they have been discontinued by Apple on the software side, so I had to move them to other operating systems.
The oldest machine is a 27 inch iMac (late 2012), which has a 1TB HDD and 16GB RAM. Since this machine is from the office I can not really upgrade it (would love to put a SSD on it), aside from the RAM. Catalina was the last OS version I could use on it with Apple's blessing, back in 2019, but since it got old I tried Linux on it. For starters I tried Debian on the HDD but it was very slow, then I had the idea of using a USB external SSD drive and that worked better for a while, in fact I was able to put Ventura on it, but was unstable after all. The solution I came up with, which works very well (after solving some minor issues) is GhostBSD (it is based on FreeBSD 14.2): its default "Mate" desktop makes the luxury display shine again and the comprehensive software selection makes it very comfortable; the best and frankly unexpected thing, however, is that GhostBSD is installed on the HDD and runs extremely well (don't miss the SSD at all). I also like the fact that it is still a Unix system...
The other machine is a 2017 Macbook Air (the last with the luminous logo in the back), which last Apple supported OS was Monterey. I used it until Monterey lost the security updates (last year) and installed Debian 12 on it (GNOME based). It works really well, even faster than when I bought it new in 2020! The only thing that does not work is the webcam, which allegedly can be made to work, but I have not done that yet (not really interested).
Don't get me wrong though, I really like MacOS and still use it in a MBP, but don't like outdated/patched up software. When that MBP looses Apple support as well I might purchase a new Mac...
Thanks,
Joe.
I have two Intel Macs that, as good as Apple hardware is, still function very well. Unfortunately they have been discontinued by Apple on the software side, so I had to move them to other operating systems.
The oldest machine is a 27 inch iMac (late 2012), which has a 1TB HDD and 16GB RAM. Since this machine is from the office I can not really upgrade it (would love to put a SSD on it), aside from the RAM. Catalina was the last OS version I could use on it with Apple's blessing, back in 2019, but since it got old I tried Linux on it. For starters I tried Debian on the HDD but it was very slow, then I had the idea of using a USB external SSD drive and that worked better for a while, in fact I was able to put Ventura on it, but was unstable after all. The solution I came up with, which works very well (after solving some minor issues) is GhostBSD (it is based on FreeBSD 14.2): its default "Mate" desktop makes the luxury display shine again and the comprehensive software selection makes it very comfortable; the best and frankly unexpected thing, however, is that GhostBSD is installed on the HDD and runs extremely well (don't miss the SSD at all). I also like the fact that it is still a Unix system...
The other machine is a 2017 Macbook Air (the last with the luminous logo in the back), which last Apple supported OS was Monterey. I used it until Monterey lost the security updates (last year) and installed Debian 12 on it (GNOME based). It works really well, even faster than when I bought it new in 2020! The only thing that does not work is the webcam, which allegedly can be made to work, but I have not done that yet (not really interested).
Don't get me wrong though, I really like MacOS and still use it in a MBP, but don't like outdated/patched up software. When that MBP looses Apple support as well I might purchase a new Mac...
Thanks,
Joe.
"You have reached your target" sounds in the ears of Apple. That's today the sole purpose of a new OS version.
Does anyone know of an SSD which is greater than 4 TB (preferably 8 TB) and will support Mavericks? Aka, I need something that uses SATA as opposed to NVMe.
The only thing I can find is the SAMSUNG 870 QVO, but it uses QLC NAND so I'm extremely wary.
The only thing I can find is the SAMSUNG 870 QVO, but it uses QLC NAND so I'm extremely wary.
Q1. I've encountered certain older SSDs that, for whever reason, will fail to treat an APFS partition + OS as a viable boot option (i.e., it won't appear on the Mac option-key boot list), but have never heard of one that won't for HFS+ (AKA MacOS Extended-journaled, which is what Mavericks uses), which has a maximum volume size of 9 exabytes.
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Q2. What are you running Mavericks on that is even fast enough to fully utilize a hugely expensive >4TB SSD? ...you'd be better ioff with a 500gb or 1T for your primary, and saving the money for a big 12TB or larger spinner. (Even though they may lack USB3, the nice thing about those old monster towers is that you can just power down, pop the side open, grab a drive, and sneakernet it to another machine if need be.)