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    Other AliExpress bargains: what’s your latest ‘‘aw heck yah’’ find?

    I tend to look around AliExpress for small, minor components for repairing my Macs. In the past, I’ve bought replacement unibody keyboard kits and hard drive cables from vendors on there whose supply came from the same suppliers as what Apple relied on originally. This day, I was looking for a...
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    • bargains components nos old parts parts replacement parts upcycling upkeep vintage mac hardware
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    • Forum: Early Intel Macs
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    Other It’s data-oriented reports as these which remind why I maintain Apple-“obsoleted” Intel Macs

    Stop… grousing time! UNITAR, the United Nations’ Institute for Teaching and Research, released this week their latest report update on e-waste trends, titled Global E-waste Monitor 2024. They note how the rate of e-waste recycling is now being outpaced by e-waste generation by a factor of...
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    • community effort compelled consumption e-waste early intel macs planned obsolescence unitar united nations upcycling urban mining
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    • Forum: Early Intel Macs
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    Old Mac Pro 1,1 into BBQ

    Hey all, I just have this old Mac Pro 1,1 lying around the house thats clearly past its useby date with upgrades, software updates etc. And since i stopped using it a year ago for a Minecraft server its been collecting dust ever since. But now as i moved into a house with a garden i was...
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    iM 4,1-14,4 Diary of a freebie A1224 iMac7,1: a project to improve it to its outer limits

    After a mess of posts in The Freebies Thread in the PowerPC Macs forum — post #77 and posts #99 through #125 — I felt it was probably appropriate to give this freebie iMac its own thread and due in its own thread, rather than to monopolize a clearinghouse post (for the variety of free stuff the...
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    • a1224 early intel revival imac7.1 penryn reuse reversed obsolescence santa rosa upcycling vintage mac hardware
    • Replies: 44
    • Forum: Early Intel Macs
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    Your free [acquisitions/electronics recycling/dumpster dive] finds: PowerPC Macs edition

    This thread is for PowerPC Macs you’ve either been given for free; found for free; rescued (again, for free) from an electronics recycler; or best yet, a dumpster-dive find. (I’ve also started a parallel thread on the Early Intel Macs forum for found Macs of the Intel variety). Over the years...
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    • free finds powerpc rehabilitation reuse upcycling
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    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
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    Your free [acquisitions/electronics recycling/dumpster dive] finds: Early Intel Macs edition

    Time to get a fresh thread going here… This one’s for Early Intel Macs you’ve either been given for free; found for free; rescued (again, for free) from an electronics recycler; or best yet, a dumpster-dive find. I’ve had a few early Intel Macs in the last few years which have landed in my...
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    The Big Sad: your dead Macs ☠️

    I think a few of us around here have some of these in our homes. Straight-up — list and/or describe the dead Macs you have lying about! They can be donor and also gravely wounded Macs. I’ll start. In my dead lot: A1104 PowerBook G4 (bad RAM bridge, donor) M6411 iBook G3/466 (graphite, dead...
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    • circle of life dead mac the big sad upcycling
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    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
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    The “Legacy iDevices forum” thread: on a new community forum for unsupported iPods/iPhones/iPads (in the vein of the Early Intel & PowerPC forums)

    I was thinking about this topic over the weekend after listening to someone I know share the story of upgrading the 1.8-inch HDD in their iPod with an SSD. And then something clicked in my mind: One thing we don’t have around on MR forums is a forum dedicated for keeping iPods, vintage...
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    • community forums hardware hacks ipads iphones ipods jailbreaking obsolete repurposing upcycling
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    • Forum: Site and Forum Feedback
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    Seeing through clearer eyes: on upgrading an Apple Cinema Display with a higher-res LCD

    So I was thinking about upcycling at the same time as I was looking at my old A1038, the acrylic 20-inch Apple Cinema Display, in its new home (I did some in-home re-arranging last month, and now both my ailing-but-still-running Power Mac G5 and ACD live in a different room, in a different work...
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