I used to work for Dell so a bit difficult to avoid. Especially with being able to buy 4 a year at cost price I think!
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What was your first Mac?
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Mac Pro 2002 G4 2x1.0 GHz ... with the 17" Apple monitor and those transparent speakers. I was working on my MS in Electrical Engineering at the time and the fortran genetic algorithm simulations I was running went from 20 hours per run to 30 min per run with this machine vs. the AMD PC I was using ...
trying to locate a photo of my Bondi blue iMac g3........
can't find one now, but that was my first I owned in my house!
in 1986 I used a Omega, Amiga then 1990 worked in a publishing company that used s galore.
Hopefully my LAST Mac will be that m1 Mini since I miss that Asus zenbook now.
can't find one now, but that was my first I owned in my house!
in 1986 I used a Omega, Amiga then 1990 worked in a publishing company that used s galore.
Hopefully my LAST Mac will be that m1 Mini since I miss that Asus zenbook now.
Fittingly, the only non-Apple computer I've seen associated with Star Trek is Commodore!
I had an Amiga 500 too. Loved how you could you could hook up your stereo speakers to it. Faery Tale Adventure was the greatest game back then (between the Ultima series and Witcher)
First Mac I ever used? Macintosh Plus. Playing NetTrek at the local science museum.
First Mac that was "mine"? A PowerBook 5300c my dad gave me when he upgraded to a 1400cs thanks to a Mac magazine contest. (I don't remember the magazine.)
First Mac I bought with my own money? A used SE/30. (That was already well and truly "obsolete" being about a decade old when I bought it - I bought it partly for nostalgia, and partly to run NetBSD and be my home server.)
First new Mac I bought? 12" PowerBook G4 867 MHz. I originally bought a refurbished one as we were departing town on a two-week-long camping road trip partly to be "portable DVD player" for the kid. The DVD drive failed two hours into the drive. So upon returning from the trip, I returned it and paid the extra money to 'upgrade' to a brand-new one instead. (I still have it!)
First Mac that was "mine"? A PowerBook 5300c my dad gave me when he upgraded to a 1400cs thanks to a Mac magazine contest. (I don't remember the magazine.)
First Mac I bought with my own money? A used SE/30. (That was already well and truly "obsolete" being about a decade old when I bought it - I bought it partly for nostalgia, and partly to run NetBSD and be my home server.)
First new Mac I bought? 12" PowerBook G4 867 MHz. I originally bought a refurbished one as we were departing town on a two-week-long camping road trip partly to be "portable DVD player" for the kid. The DVD drive failed two hours into the drive. So upon returning from the trip, I returned it and paid the extra money to 'upgrade' to a brand-new one instead. (I still have it!)
You could disable the discrete GPU and run the MacBook on the internal GPU of the Intel CPU.
This requires some terminal commands in single user mode, but somebody documented the process here:
GPU problem - Boot Hangs on Grey Screen
I found this according to my problem in this thread: Boot hangs on grey screen (even when booting from USB drive with fresh OS X install) My MacBook Pro 15" Early 2011 with AMD Radeon HD 6750M exh...
Unfortunately my machine is in a state that it no longer boots at allYou could disable the discrete GPU and run the MacBook on the internal GPU of the Intel CPU.
This requires some terminal commands in single user mode, but somebody documented the process here:
GPU problem - Boot Hangs on Grey Screen
I found this according to my problem in this thread: Boot hangs on grey screen (even when booting from USB drive with fresh OS X install) My MacBook Pro 15" Early 2011 with AMD Radeon HD 6750M exh...apple.stackexchange.com
. I press the power button, the super drive spins, I feel the back of the MacBook heating up, but I never hear the POST (power on self test) “bong” and never see anything on the screen. I already tried those solutions going blind (I.e. trying to follow the instructions even though I see nothing and hoping it works), but it did nothing. I think my only solution would be physically disabling the AMD GPU (like this one https://www.cmizapper.com/products/tiresias-gpukiller.html) or reballing the GPU just enough for the machine to boot and then disable it via software, as in your link, but unfortunately I lack the technical knowledge and equipment for any of those approaches, nor I know anyone who does.I really miss the days you could upgrade those machines! I upgraded it with an SSD and 16GB of RAM back when I was using it, and it was still blazing fast when it failed!
Thank you for taking your time for suggesting that solution though! I really appreciate it!
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Yeah, technically so was mine. I emulated Mac on my A500 long before I got a Mac.
Here’s my Amiga 500 running MacOS 8.1:
Of course, B&W OS 7 was much faster and actually useable on the A500.
I got my first real Mac in 2011, a used G5 PowerMac.
Yes, Faery Tale was amazing for 1986 - especially the fact that it was programmed by one guy, music and everything.
I spent an entire week finishing that game. (still have the hand-drawn maps)
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do we still use that?
I love mine and will use that for new files I created on the iPad later today.
(once my watch updates, then turns off location, then get shipped back to for a new battery)
My first was a Iicx that I put together from the couple of pallets of parts we bought from a local Mac place that had gone under; it was 'payment' for refurbing the Mac Pluses, hard drives and IIsi that also came in those weird pallets.
Eventually I managed to acquire a Quadra 610 with the DOS card (also a trade for work), and that lasted me until 2000...
Then a Sawtooth G4, that ended up a sort of frankenmac - before the it was killed by a weird printer related power surge, it had new video cards, new processor, maxed out HDs, a. bunch of RAM, new CD drive..
Then a borrowed 2006 macbook
then the 2009 unibody MacBook (not Pro)
Then a fancy 15" late 2011 MacBook Pro...
then the 2016 non-Touch bar MacBook Pro
and currently running a 2019 13" MacBook Pro, yearning for a new M4... something. Haven't decided.
On and off, for a long time I worked for my dad and he seemed go through the Weird Macs - He had a Sun Remarketing MacXL for a while, then the weird little IIsi.. they had a couple of Color Classics.. a MacTV... one of his first laptops was one of the Duos, he even used one of the Anniversary Macs for a while. Eventually all that was replaced by the MacBooks, but man, I wish he had kept the menagerie..it would have been quite a collection.
Eventually I managed to acquire a Quadra 610 with the DOS card (also a trade for work), and that lasted me until 2000...
Then a Sawtooth G4, that ended up a sort of frankenmac - before the it was killed by a weird printer related power surge, it had new video cards, new processor, maxed out HDs, a. bunch of RAM, new CD drive..
Then a borrowed 2006 macbook
then the 2009 unibody MacBook (not Pro)
Then a fancy 15" late 2011 MacBook Pro...
then the 2016 non-Touch bar MacBook Pro
and currently running a 2019 13" MacBook Pro, yearning for a new M4... something. Haven't decided.
On and off, for a long time I worked for my dad and he seemed go through the Weird Macs - He had a Sun Remarketing MacXL for a while, then the weird little IIsi.. they had a couple of Color Classics.. a MacTV... one of his first laptops was one of the Duos, he even used one of the Anniversary Macs for a while. Eventually all that was replaced by the MacBooks, but man, I wish he had kept the menagerie..it would have been quite a collection.
No I sold it in 2014 to help fund a 15inch MBP which I absolutely loved. It lasted until the M1 MBP so got me through the butterfly keyboard & touchbar era.
I played Ultima for months in I think 1980 or so. I went to an Apple Convention in SF and met Lord British who was in his late teens. He had more hair back then!
Power Macintosh 8100/80AV upgraded to max ram eventually. 264MB I think. 100MB zip drives. 21inch Apple Display. Wacom tablet, flatbed scanner.
It was great at photoshop and all that jazz. First mac!
It was great at photoshop and all that jazz. First mac!
The first Mac I used was a 2009 white Unibody MacBook but the first one I owned was a 12" base model gold MacBook. Got it during my trip to Atlanta and I loved it. However I broke the screen and upgraded to a 2017 13" MBP.
AND the first Mac to have SIMM slots, for a whopping 4 MB of memory! Before the Mac Plus, the most memory you could get was 512K
I bought my first Mac, a Mac mini M4, with a M4 CPU, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, on past June.
I am not going to move to Linux or Windows again.
I am not going to move to Linux or Windows again.
1984 Mac the original, stayed up almost all night playing with it and then had to go to work lol. but came home and started all over again. Up to a MI MacBook Air now and still love them.