What have you done with an early Intel recently?

[JMStearnsX2]

I'm pleased with the results of the transfers, I was able to watch some old home video footage with family while they were over for Christmas. That was pretty cool to be able to stream it from my Mac mini media server.

Transferring 35ish VHS tapes to digital takes some time....

 

[wicknix]

Which version of VirtualBox VM are you using with Snow Leopard?

EDIT to also ask: Out of curious amusement, how small did you make your virtual hard drive for TinyCore?

I'm using version 4.3.40 r110317, and i made a 4gb drive only because i also installed ThunderBird and a few other things.

Cheers

 

[eyoungren]

Tonight I figured out Barrier!

Barrier is a software based KVM, like Synergy and Sharemouse. One CRITICAL piece of information that is NOT mentioned is that you have to name the screen of the clients whatever that local computer's name is.

Finally, working though. I can move my mouse down directly and both keyboard and trackpad switch to controlling the Early 2009 Mini. Bring it up and it goes back to controlling the Late 2009 Mini.

Barrier is here: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/releases

EDIT: Now I have an Apple Wireless keyboard and Magic Mouse I can connect somewhere else.

 

[eyoungren]

Scanning…via Screen Sharing.

This is the 80GB hard drive 2006 Mac Mini in the garage. Had to get Photoshop CS2 reinstalled and my scanner driver reinstalled as well. Although the Mac came with PS CS3 I have now since determined that CS2 is the last version that can use Scangear for my N676U Canonscan scanner.

 

[TheShortTimer]

Courtesy of VLC and my 2010 11" MacBook Air C2D booted to its Catalina partition, I watched a TV recording via an external USB HDD.

If you're curious about what I'm watching then click here for more info but be warned, this film is probably NSFW...

I'm also using said machine to create this post.

 

[eyoungren]

Photoshop (on the MacPro) for iPhone wallpaper…

 

[chaosbunny]

Courtesy of VLC and my 2010 11" MacBook Air C2D booted to its Catalina partition, I watched a TV recording via an external USB HDD.

If you're curious about what I'm watching then click here for more info but be warned, this film is probably NSFW...

I'm also using said machine to create this post.

Looks interesting! Will watch when I have time. Thanks for the link.

Edit: I watched it in the meantime. Great beginning but from the middle to the ending it got a little bit worse with some - for me - questionable decicions from the protagonist. But overall nice movie and solid entertainment.

 

[eyoungren]

First with the Minis in the garage was the software KVM. Solved. I can easily control both Macs from one keyboard/trackpad.

Second was audio. I got Airfol in 2021, but with the situation now being different I started using it again.

Late 2009 Mini is connected to a Bass Jump 2 (thanks @bobesch) via USB. But the sound is not loud enough, either with or without the BassJump driver and that driver conflicts with Soundbooster. So, the driver was uninstalled and SoundBooster is now boosting the BassJump.

Soundbooster also has a system wide equalizer, so I have that active and set to Vocals (so I can hear people speaking in movies). All the other music apps on the Late 2009 Mini use their own internal equalizers for other effects. I get what I want and the sound is boosted.

AirFoil on the Early 2009 Mini is streaming to AirSattelite on the Late 2009 Mini. I made a group of the bluetooth loudspeaker and the L:09 Mini. So, sound is being passed from the E:09 Mini to the loudspeaker AND the BassJump on the L:09 Mini.

And it's synced. Which is the entire point of this exercise.

 

[ToniCH]

Not much. Came back from our skiing holiday and the new battery for the Macbook early 2008 had arrived. Installed and charged it.

Was happy to see that the battery has a matte black finish, charge counter indicated 1st charge and it reached its design capacity nicely. It has sat in a shelf for some time though as it was made 499 days ago.

 

[swamprock]

Not much. Came back from our skiing holiday and the new battery for the Macbook early 2008 had arrived. Installed and charged it.

Was happy to see that the battery has a matte black finish, charge counter indicated 1st charge and it reached its design capacity nicely. It has sat in a shelf for some time though as it was made 499 days ago.

I just received my Blackbook 4,1 battery as well. Mine is glossy, but that doesn't bug me. Charged from 0 to 100% in a few hours and now has a couple of cycles on it, and seems to be holding up. I spent a little more for this one and avoided buying one of the batteries from one of the multitudes of similar Chinese (SHIPS FROM USA!) sellers. Running on my Debian 11 Blackbook.

I also removed the dead Superdrive from my 2009 Mac Mini and replaced it with a SSD caddy, and installed Debian 11 on it. I picked up an Iomega MiniMax, which has a combination of firewire and USB ports, and an external hard drive. I opened it up and replaced it with a SSD, and clipped off the annoying front LED. I'm not sure what I'll do with that drive just yet. The main drive runs High Sierra unsupported for my guitar and recording software (Riffworks, which is no longer sold or able to be activated, so I have backups of various macOS/OS X installs of the program). The external Superdrive runs under High Sierra with a patch, but I can't boot from it, but no big deal.

 

[wicknix]

Got a Netac 256gb SSD for x-mas. Tossed it in my aging mac mini 2,1. Runs like a raped ape with snow leopard.

 

[B S Magnet]

Got a Netac 256gb SSD for x-mas. Tossed it in my aging mac mini 2,1. Runs like a raped ape with snow leopard.

I’ll be over here, hard-side-eyeing that phrase… 🧐

 

[TheShortTimer]

I’ll be over here, hard-side-eyeing that phrase… 🧐

I wasn't familiar with the phrase and had to look it up.

To move very fast.

Ok...

 

[eyoungren]

More Photoshop work on the MP.

Never been to this place, but it says what I am and what I like - and as a designer I also appreciate whomever designed their logo, theme and style.

Going to have to try the coffee though.



PS. The knight is my addition, not theirs.

 

[eyoungren]

Going to have to try the coffee though.

And ordered. Trying their house blend.

Oh…I used an Early Intel Mac today to order coffee online!

 

[MacFoxG4]

Downgraded the 2012 MBP to Mojave. Monterey performed fine on here, but the Wi-Fi issues (Wi-Fi speeds would slow to a crawl then go back to normal and then slow down again) were really starting to annoy me. I love being able to take this laptop anywhere in the house and an Ethernet to wireless bridge hanging off the side of this Mac would have made that awkward. Ubuntu had similar Wi-Fi issues to Monterey, though it happened less. Still, the best Wi-Fi performance I get on this Mac comes from officially supported OSes like Mojave. I chose Mojave because I figured if I was going to downgrade might as well get 32-bit app support back. I also don't like Catalina. It's nice seeing iTunes again, it's nice having all my music and videos in one app again. The UI is much better too than the Music and TV apps. I haven't seen the nagging login screen issue that I used to have with iTunes yet, but then again I also haven't tried logging into it yet, so.

All of the apps I use work with Mojave, so I haven't lost anything there. My plan if there is an app I need that won't run on Mojave is to buy parallels and run Windows 10. I don't like Windows 10, but I can't deny that it has great software support. Not getting OS security updates does make me a tad nervous, but I am already careful with the websites I visit and at least Chrome and Firefox are up to date.

There will probably come a day where I will have to upgrade and give up things like upgradeable RAM and storage, running old Windows VMs, and built-in optical drives, but not today. The temptation to buy an M1 Mac is there, but even if I did give in one day and get one, I would never get rid of this MBP.

 

[Amethyst1]

My plan if there is an app I need that won't run on Mojave is to buy parallels and run Windows 10.

Try VirtualBox and/or VMware Fusion Player first if you haven't already. Why? They're free [for personal use].

 

[MacFoxG4]

Try VirtualBox and/or VMware Fusion Player first if you haven't already. Why? They're free [for personal use].

I tried VirtualBox already and Windows 10 was kinda slow. I looked into VMWare Fusion, but it looks like they don’t support Mojave anymore according to the website.

 

[bobesch]

I looked into VMWare Fusion, but it looks like they don’t support Mojave anymore according to the website.

Yes, You'll need Fusion 11 to run Win10-VM on Mojave-Host. Works ok on a quad-i7 mid2012 15" MBP9,1.
But I'd rather stay with Mojave and supported Firefox.
Better to install any slender Linux-Distro and run an up-to-date boxed browser in there...

 

[B S Magnet]

More Photoshop work on the MP.

Never been to this place, but it says what I am and what I like

So wait… you’re a coffee who likes loyalty?

 

[eyoungren]

So wait… you’re a coffee who likes loyalty?

LOL!

Several years back we visited Disneyland and my son spent some of his own money on Disney's 'Pieces of Magic'. He gave me, his sister and his mom one each.

This one was mine…



I carry it around in my pocket every day like anyone would a watch or a pocket knife, etc.

Periodically I show it to him and he sighs and rolls his eyes.

PS. I grew up in and lived in Southern California for 20 years (and my wife longer) so Disneyland was for the kids - not us.

PPS. Posting this from a browser on an Early Intel Mac. 👍

 

[B S Magnet]

LOL!

Several years back we visited Disneyland and my son spent some of his own money on Disney's 'Pieces of Magic'. He gave me, his sister and his mom one each.

This one was mine…

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I carry it around in my pocket every day like anyone would a watch or a pocket knife, etc.

Periodically I show it to him and he sighs and rolls his eyes.

PS. I grew up and live in Southern California for 20 years (and my wife longer) so Disneyland was for the kids - not us.

PPS. Posting this from a browser on an Early Intel Mac. 👍

To him, it’s a cheesy memento. To you, it’s a reminder of how important he is to you.

At last, I think I finally know what you look like. I found this pic of you at your nearby state park, taking in the scenic desert vistas:

P.S.: That is, of course, Too Much Coffee Man.

P.P.S.: This reply posted with an early Intel Mac running the latest Interweb.

 

[VirtuallyInsane]

I browsed this thread:

Okay, aside from that? Well... I couldn't sleep, so I decided to take my Early 2006 MacBook Pro on Snow Leopard for a spin and see what I could do with it.

First, I decided to change my background and found a wide shot that fit perfectly on the 1440x900 15-inch screen, so I kept it. The image quality was actually pretty good as well:

Then, I opened up Interwebs and I actually managed to install some content blockers and get YouTube running at 480p (I could run 720, but it got a bit too jittery so I settled on 480p and I had no qualms).

I managed to get Bluetooth Audio running for the video. It kept up quite well if I didn't minimize the video.

Then I added some of my music to the iTunes library... I think it's iTunes 10. The one with cover flow. I really like the cover flow. It's a damn shame they decided to update it and get rid of it. It's a good feature and it shows off the album artwork well.

Okay, this part was me showing off a bit. The laptop came with 1GB RAM, and an 80 GB 5400 RPM hard drive, which I am updating to 2GB Ram (the max) and a 120GB SSD (because this hard drive is probably heating the Macbook up, along with the dust inside it that also needs cleaning out).

All in all, this machine doesn't run too badly for its specs. I even managed to get Netflix to work on Nightly with the Silverlight Extension. It's a bit laggy in HD, but it's not too bad, considering it's streaming. The audio was slightly behind, but that's to be expected.

As something to simulate Snow Leopard, it's actually pretty decent so far as a multimedia player, writer, and connecting devices. I need to try out some of the more extensive programs whenever I update the specs on this and add more content. (I know you didn't expect an essay, but I got this a couple of weeks ago for a very good price online and brought it from Tiger to Snow Leopard after a hard reset.

This is something for me to play on and see if I can repair things). I hope I can get at least another few years out of it, even as a play-about device. It's nowhere near as powerful as my modern Macs, but it gives me nostalgia for my days in High School in the 2000s when we had SL on the Music Department Macs. Brings back good memories.

 

[m1maverick]

Then, I opened up Interwebs and I actually managed to install some content blockers and get YouTube running at 480p (I could run 720, but it got a bit too jittery so I settled on 480p and I had no qualms).

This just demonstrates how much of the content on the web is unrelated to the content the end user is actually seeking. Imagine how fast the web would be if all the unwanted content were eliminated.

 

[VirtuallyInsane]

This just demonstrates how much of the content on the web is unrelated to the content the end user is actually seeking. Imagine how fast the web would be if all the unwanted content were eliminated.

Exactly. I was surprised at how much I could actually run on it. Sometimes at the bottom of Interwebs, you can see all the content that needs to load, and some websites are totally swamped with content that you never knew you'd "need" for certain web pages. (Which is unrelated, like you said).

I wonder if I can block things on my iBook G4, and get that running on the internet. It is running very slowly at the moment. It does work, but the lag is extreme. Imagine what it would be like on it if all that "content" was blocked...