On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Mystic Prowler coolmar...@gmail.comwrote:
Does anyone have use for really old macs these days? I do. I know this is
off of topic, but oh well.
Thinking about using my 1400 for a water catcher for a plant since not one
person from the swap list has any interest
On Oct 29, 2010, at 9:19 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com
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On Oct 29, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Mystic Prowler wrote:
I understand that.
I have no idea what you're replying to, since you didn't quote
anything.
Josh
On Oct 30, 2010, at 9:41 PM, Malcolm O'Brien wrote:
[Malcolm's original comment about the transition from OS 9 to OS X
being a breeze for all users omitted in his reply]
Oh, was it? Because that's not how I remember it.
I knew someone would say that.
What's that supposed to mean? You
[Malcolm's original comment about the transition from OS 9 to OS X being a
breeze for all users omitted in his reply]
Not what I said.
What's that supposed to mean?
That every posted opinion is promptly contradicted.
If you're not inclined to say I stand corrected
I stand contradicted.
On Oct 30, 12:48 am, Mystic Prowler coolmar...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have use for really old macs these days? I do. I know this is
off of topic, but oh well.
Maybe to read old, old files and screen shots from the '90s that
modern software cannot convert or even to see and read.
Al
A quick check with Mactracker says that it's not PCI. The 6100 has either a PDS
slot, or a NuBus slot. Neither of which are compatible with PCI cards. I doubt
that there ever were any wireless cards made for PDS or Nubus.
-Elliott
On Oct 29, 2010, at 9:48 PM, Mystic Prowler wrote:
On Oct 30, 12:48 am, Mystic Prowler coolmar...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have use for really old macs these days? I do. I know this is
off of topic, but oh well.
My oldest Mac is a PDQ Wallstreet. It's over 12 years old, yet it can
run Tiger (I mostly run OS 9 on it, though). And it's
My oldest machine can't even run Jaguar. My oldest machine is the Powerbook
540c. It has a 33Mhz 68k Motorola 680LC40 processor. This is my VERY fisr
mac with a non-PowerPC processor. Last summer was when I received my first
non- G3-5 based PowerPC 603e machine.
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 2:44 PM,
On Oct 30, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Ashgrove wrote:
My oldest Mac is a PDQ Wallstreet. It's over 12 years old, yet it can
run Tiger (I mostly run OS 9 on it, though). And it's amazingly,
completely usable. You can surf the Web (kudos to Cameron's Classilla
here), send emails, work, watch movies,
I agree with steven. I also believe in older computers, and sometimes I
bring in my PB 5300cs for reminders, notes, phone numbers, and song names.
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Steven macintosh.awes...@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 30, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Ashgrove wrote:
My oldest Mac is a PDQ
On Oct 30, 4:13 pm, Steven macintosh.awes...@gmail.com wrote:
I recently got a PDQ (although for me it is the newest in my old mac
collection) and I was amazed at how useful it is. All of my old Mac laptops
are usable for certain things, and my PowerBook 3400c almost approaches being
useful
Oh, was it? Because that's not how I remember it.
I knew someone would say that.
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Well, judging my the course of technological expansion over the past few
years, we should start seeing 128-bit computers around 2016, and commonly
around 2024.
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That isn't too far away you know. 2016 is only 5 years from now, and 2014 is
only 13. It's almost 2011, the year of the touchscreen and touchpad. let's
see what will go on.
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The CHINESE market, India, Brazil, etc will determine what develops,
because they are the expanding market of the future.. like by 2012. And
judging by the way that the Chinese do their OWN companies to overmatch
the American companies -- with blow away pricing and maybe questionable
quality
On Oct 28, 7:16 pm, Mystic Prowler coolmar...@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder
if it would be a good idea to dual-boot it with Ubuntu systems because
Ubuntu still supports PowerPC with their newer system releases.
Dual boot:
Ubuntu 10.10 with:
Mac OS X 10.5.8
It sounds good to me. The latest
On 29/10/10 10:26PDT, Tina K. wrote:
On 2010/10/28 17:16, Mystic Prowler so eloquently wrote:
I wonder if it would be a good idea to dual-boot it with Ubuntu systems
because Ubuntu still supports PowerPC with their newer system releases.
Actually, Ubuntu dropped official support for PPC
I tried to install Ubuntu 10.10 on my G5 iMac, and it turns out that the
installer crashed. It says that i need some kind of boot partition map.
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I agree, but at the same time I suggest doing this:
The Apple A4 chip should be standardized for all mobile platforms (except
laptops), while Apple should go back to the PowerPC, but have a different
name and a new generation, like the PowerPC G5 v2, or the PowerPC G6, or the
Core G6... I love
On Oct 29, 2:27 pm, Mystic Prowler coolmar...@gmail.com wrote:
I tried to install Ubuntu 10.10 on my G5 iMac, and it turns out that the
installer crashed. It says that i need some kind of boot partition map.
Yep. You gotta read the tutorials and format the HDD according to
instructions prior to
I understand that.
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On Oct 28, 2010, at 9:08 PM, Steven wrote:
On Oct 28, 2010, at 6:16 PM, Mystic Prowler wrote:
The iMac G5 is perfectly useful... but no new version of Mac OS X
supports it anymore. It is a powerful, 64-bit computer that will
last until 128-bit computers start peeking through the
On 2010/10/29 16:07, Ashgrove so eloquently wrote:
On Oct 29, 2:27 pm, Mystic Prowlercoolmar...@gmail.com wrote:
I tried to install Ubuntu 10.10 on my G5 iMac, and it turns out
that the installer crashed. It says that i need some kind of
boot partition map.
Yep. You gotta read the tutorials
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Mystic Prowler coolmar...@gmail.comwrote:
I have a question The iMac G5 is perfectly useful... but no new version
of Mac OS X supports it anymore. It is a powerful, 64-bit computer that will
last until 128-bit computers start peeking through the
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Mystic Prowler coolmar...@gmail.comwrote:
Well, judging my the course of technological expansion over the past few
years, we should start seeing 128-bit computers around 2016, and commonly
around 2024.
A wider highway is one way to get a faster traffic flow
On Oct 29, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Mystic Prowler wrote:
I understand that.
I have no idea what you're replying to, since you didn't quote anything.
Josh
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Does anyone have use for really old macs these days? I do. I know this is
off of topic, but oh well.
I took a trip to the jurrasic today, and found my PowerBook 5300cs sitting
on my desk. I recently got a new battery for it, so it is a little more
useful than it used to be. To think of it,
I have a question The iMac G5 is perfectly useful... but no new version
of Mac OS X supports it anymore. It is a powerful, 64-bit computer that will
last until 128-bit computers start peeking through the markets I wonder
if it would be a good idea to dual-boot it with Ubuntu systems
On Oct 28, 2010, at 6:16 PM, Mystic Prowler wrote:
The iMac G5 is perfectly useful... but no new version of Mac OS X supports it
anymore. It is a powerful, 64-bit computer that will last until 128-bit
computers start peeking through the markets
I'm not going to defend the way Apple has
On Oct 26, 2010, at 10:21 PM, Dave wrote:
Gosh, folks, is this what they mean by the Apple tax?
No, the 'Apple Tax' is a sarcastic term used by Windows trolls to complain that
Macs cost more than Dells, even though comparably equipped Dells usually cost
just as much. (or morecost out
Apples are the best computers I have and will ever use. I have no need for
anything else. As long as Apple stays on tack, i'm happy.
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My bad, on track, not tack.
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On Oct 27, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Mystic Prowler wrote:
My bad, on track, not tack.
Hmm, at first I thought it was a NEW theological argument: How many Apples can
balance on the head of a tack? 8-P
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cool I am getting an 867Mhz 15 Powerbook G4 next week... =)
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Well, it will probably leave out in the cold some early Intel Macs,
Please tell us more before we go out and buy one of them.
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well it was news to me..
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Mystic Prowler coolmar...@gmail.comwrote:
I have a direct link to the site that Apple has it's Mac OS X lion page.
This OS is coming out in Summer 2011.
www.apple.com/macosx/lion
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trying not to repeat the switch from OS 9 to OS X
But see, that switch was mostly painless for users. This reaps them
mucho good will from many people (such as me). In fact, there were 3
enormous changes over the years:
1. 68xxx to PowerPC
2. OSArabic numeral to OSRoman numeral
3. PowerPC
Malcom 'o Brian, you have a 17 iMac G4 800? THose are nice machines you
know, I have 2. One is a 17 1.25Ghz that WAS a 1Ghz but had it's logic
board replaced because of an unknown reason. My second iMac G4 is identical
to yours except it is a 15 screen, and it's internal IDE Bus failed. It is
Being a PPC user, 10.7 Lion has no bearing on my computing experience.
At least not until I can afford an Intel Mac, which is years away.
But the one thing about the upcoming release that I am curious about is
will Apple finally commit to 64 bit through and through, or is this
going to be
I am okay with PowerPC macs for now... mostly because leo is still
supported. They are fast, don't get me wrong. Especially my iMac G5. I
turned the energy saver option to Best for performance, and this machine
roars louder than my G4 machines combined. I do need a new MBA, though. A
good 15
At 4:46 PM -0600 10/27/2010, Tina K. wrote:
the one thing about the upcoming release that I am curious about is
will Apple finally commit to 64 bit through and through, or is this
going to be another of several incremental steps toward 64 bit that
began with 10.4 Tiger?
IF Apple goes with a
you have a 17 iMac G4 800? THose are nice machines
Yup, I love mine! Not the thing to watch Flash video on though. :P I
just don't go to YouTube with that machine. Instead, I use my PC
desktop, PC notebook or iPod Touch.
When my 80GB drive was getting full, I replaced it with a 500GB that I
Have you tried HTML5 YouTube? Apparently it works well even on the faster G4s.
www.YouTube.com/html5
-Elliott
On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:52 PM, Malcolm O'Brien malcolmo2...@hotmail.com wrote:
Not the thing to watch Flash video on though. :P I just don't go to YouTube
with that machine.
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Have you tried HTML5 YouTube?
Yes, from info given here. Two results:
1) It's better. But it's a better sequence of still pictures. :(
2) You only get HTML5 *IF* the video doesn't have an ad on it and there
are only a small number of those.
So, effectively, it's not better enough to make it
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Ashgrove salum...@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 25, 2:26 pm, Mystic Prowler coolmar...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a direct link to the site that Apple has it's Mac OS X lion page.
This OS is coming out in Summer 2011.
www.apple.com/macosx/lion
Well, it will
On Oct 25, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com
wrote:
SSShh!
IXNAY on the inofay ! Apple wants it to be a surprise. Many of those machines
are not paid off yet.
If you haven't paid for a $1200 computer you bought in 2006 in four years, you
have bigger
Gosh, folks, is this what they mean by the Apple tax?
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Bruce Johnson
john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
On Oct 26, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
Ah, but all of that model were not sold at the beginning of the production
run but some
On Oct 26, 12:24 pm, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote:
And also Bruce you are thinking like a person with a steady income and no
job interruptions, family emergencies or such things as medical bills.
Amen to that. (In two months, I'll be done with my 2008 medical bills
Okay okay... I read it a while ago too... but don't be so hard on me.
I thought some didn't know. please close this discussion.
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On Oct 25, 2:26 pm, Mystic Prowler coolmar...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a direct link to the site that Apple has it's Mac OS X lion page.
This OS is coming out in Summer 2011.
www.apple.com/macosx/lion
Well, it will probably leave out in the cold some early Intel Macs,
and a lot of people will
Yes it sure will be. Strange to know that some Macs shipped with OS X 10.5
and can only go to OS X 10.6.
My G4 sawtooth has a wide range of operating systems...
Mac OS 8.6-Mac OS X 10.5.8
some later lower end core duo machines shipped with leopard
I do think it is not going to be a list of
On Oct 25, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Mystic Prowler wrote:
Yes it sure will be. Strange to know that some Macs shipped with OS X 10.5
and can only go to OS X 10.6.
I don't see any reason to assume that Lion will drop support for early Intel
processors. The three year life of the final PowerPC Macs
On 25/10/10 13:24PDT, Mystic Prowler wrote:
G5's are 64-bit, so why drop support for them?
Because Apple wants to sell you ANOTHER muti-thousand dollar computer.
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On 25/10/10 15:44PDT, Mystic Prowler wrote:
I do need a new MBA as my newest machine is an iMac G5.
I have a G5 as my main desktop. However, I can't justify getting a new
computer unless it croaks beyond recovery. My secondary computer was a
G4 PowerBook, but it has been pretty much
On Oct 25, 2010, at 5:44 PM, Mystic Prowler wrote:
I do need a new MBA as my newest machine is an iMac G5.
Personally I wouldn't want that. In my experience, the laptop should always
have lower specifications than the desktop. When I first switched to Mac I used
an iBook G4 as my main
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