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I recently got a fancy camera and some lenses, which I plan to use to make tech videos on YouTube. In the process of learning how to use it (this is the first real camera I've owned other than old point and shoots), I decided to take some funny distorted photos of my MBP using this super wide angle fisheye lens I got.

Maybe it's a bit silly for this forum, but I thought it was neat.
 
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originaldotexe said:
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I recently got a fancy camera and some lenses, which I plan to use to make tech videos on YouTube. In the process of learning how to use it (this is the first real camera I've owned other than old point and shoots), I decided to take some funny distorted photos of my MBP using this super wide angle fisheye lens I got.

Maybe it's a bit silly for this forum, but I thought it was neat.
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MMBP (Mac Mini Book Pro)?

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I decided to take some funny distorted photos of my MBP using this super wide angle fisheye lens I got.

Maybe it's a bit silly for this forum, but I thought it was neat.
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Silly? Not at all. I actually like the fisheye style and bought an action camera with that lens (and I really need to make more usage of it) because I want to film stuff with that distinctive look.

It's definitely neat. Please share more of it. :)
 
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Wow! That is one IMPRESSIVE setup! I clicked the "displays" link in your signature. And 56 GB of RAM along with 15 TB! WOW! What do you do with all that "firepower"?
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I am replying here so as not to derail the other thread.

Two of my drives are SSDs, one for boot (that's a 1TB SSD) the other (2TB SSD) just because I am upgrading slowly to SSDs as I can afford them and as a scratch disk for Photoshop. I have a rule for myself that when I upgrade a drive I replace with the same capacity or better. I try to get 'better' as much as possible. This rule slips a little when it comes to replacing hard drives with SSDs though.

The remaining two hard drives are both 6TB. One stores all my downloads, OS installers and maintenance stuff and the other is for my Dropbox folder (plus a couple TBs). All my Macs/PCs back up to my Dropbox folder on my MP once a week and I have 4.1TB with Dropbox, so the drive that has the Dropbox folder needs to be large. I count this as an 'off-site' backup.

I'm running Sonoma (via OCLP) on this 2009 Mac Pro, so the more ram I have the better. I'm a graphic designer so one of the purposes is design (InDesign, Photoshop and so on). But also I like to have multiple displays for different purposes. Palletes on one display, music apps on another and so on. Makes it easier to see stuff.

I have always preferred having more space than I can use than not enough. Long ago, I was constantly in that situation and having to determine what to throw out and what to keep. For the record, I have other drive enclosures and drives connected to other Macs I own as well as two NAS boxes. All combined that's probably about 20TB on the home network. My second NAS is being used to hold an image library (all the images I download so I don't have to search for them again) as well as my design projects. The first NAS holds my music library and local daily backups.
 
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originaldotexe said:
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I recently got a fancy camera and some lenses, which I plan to use to make tech videos on YouTube. In the process of learning how to use it (this is the first real camera I've owned other than old point and shoots), I decided to take some funny distorted photos of my MBP using this super wide angle fisheye lens I got.

Maybe it's a bit silly for this forum, but I thought it was neat.
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Only now just seeing this…

This fisheye’s edge artifacts (chromatic aberration) remind me of a Ukrainian fisheye lens (no idea what aperture), converted to Nikon F-mount, which another Nikon user lent me for a moment or two during a local event/parade years ago. The artifacting on it (all off to one side) looked a lot like that:

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eyoungren said:
I am replying here so as not to derail the other thread.

Two of my drives are SSDs, one for boot (that's a 1TB SSD) the other (2TB SSD) just because I am upgrading slowly to SSDs as I can afford them and as a scratch disk for Photoshop. I have a rule for myself that when I upgrade a drive I replace with the same capacity or better. I try to get 'better' as much as possible. This rule slips a little when it comes to replacing hard drives with SSDs though.

The remaining two hard drives are both 6TB. One stores all my downloads, OS installers and maintenance stuff and the other is for my Dropbox folder (plus a couple TBs). All my Macs/PCs back up to my Dropbox folder on my MP once a week and I have 4.1TB with Dropbox, so the drive that has the Dropbox folder needs to be large. I count this as an 'off-site' backup.

I'm running Sonoma (via OCLP) on this 2009 Mac Pro, so the more ram I have the better. I'm a graphic designer so one of the purposes is design (InDesign, Photoshop and so on). But also I like to have multiple displays for different purposes. Palletes on one display, music apps on another and so on. Makes it easier to see stuff.

I have always preferred having more space than I can use than not enough. Long ago, I was constantly in that situation and having to determine what to throw out and what to keep. For the record, I have other drive enclosures and drives connected to other Macs I own as well as two NAS boxes. All combined that's probably about 20TB on the home network. My second NAS is being used to hold an image library (all the images I download so I don't have to search for them again) as well as my design projects. The first NAS holds my music library and local daily backups.
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Impressive, really impressive.

I use a combination of OneDrive and OneSync, along with their Android and Mac clients to keep all of my phones, tablets and "modern" Macs in tight sync with each other. With OneDrive involved, I too count this as an off-site backup.

I agree with the "have too much" approach... as my mother always used to say, it is better to have and not need than to need and not have"!
 
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mac57mac57 said:
Impressive, really impressive.

I use a combination of OneDrive and OneSync, along with their Android and Mac clients to keep all of my phones, tablets and "modern" Macs in tight sync with each other. With OneDrive involved, I too count this as an off-site backup.

I agree with the "have too much" approach... as my mother always used to say, it is better to have and not need than to need and not have"!
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Plenty of elders long told me the same, but there’s another path I’ve come to embrace:

“Keep a lithe footprint: have only and exactly what you need, when you need it. Should you need more, there will always be ways to add more.”
 
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mac57mac57 said:
Impressive, really impressive.

I use a combination of OneDrive and OneSync, along with their Android and Mac clients to keep all of my phones, tablets and "modern" Macs in tight sync with each other. With OneDrive involved, I too count this as an off-site backup.

I agree with the "have too much" approach... as my mother always used to say, it is better to have and not need than to need and not have"!
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There was a point I was started to get invested in to OneDrive, but then Microsoft started doing silly things with my account like forcing password resets and verification. I get that they wanted to know that I was who I said I was, but after the umpteenth time resetting a password and then having to walk through all their validation I just said forget it. I've been with Dropbox since about 2009-2010 I think so I just stuck with them. When I could use it though, OneDrive was a good service.

And for me, I'm not trying to keep everything in sync, just have what's in one folder appear on all my Macs. That's the Dropbox folder. I suppose that means 'in sync', I just have never seen it from that perspective before.

Your mother was right. A spot I've never liked being in. People bitch at me that I should only get what I need, but sometimes need isn't enough and almost all of the time what I want fills the need. So having more than I need in case I ever DO need it, is the better way to me.
 
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B S Magnet said:
Plenty of elders long told me the same, but there’s another path I’ve come to embrace:

“Keep a lithe footprint: have only and exactly what you need, when you need it. Should you need more, there will always be ways to add more.”
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I'm going to have to disagree with this a bit. :D

I get it, but 'ways to add more' usually requires money. And the money you need to add more isn't always there when you need to add more. I buy more from the beginning, so that if "should you need more" is satisfied when it happens.

No offense, I just don't really agree with the statements. That doesn't make you wrong, just that it doesn't really apply to me.
 
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eyoungren said:
I'm going to have to disagree with this a bit. :D

I get it, but 'ways to add more' usually requires money. And the money you need to add more isn't always there when you need to add more. I buy more from the beginning, so that if "should you need more" is satisfied when it happens.

No offense, I just don't really agree with the statements. That doesn't make you wrong, just that it doesn't really apply to me.
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None at all taken!

I’ve spent most of my adult life just getting by, if that. I’ve found the couple of times when I had more than what I needed, the “reserve” was dead weight and taking up the limited space I had. So I came to embrace a routine of taking a hard look at what I have, versus what I actually need or don’t need, and then try to bring the former as closely in line with the latter as I feasibly can. It takes work on my behalf, and I try to do it at least twice a year — or, if I’ve been way too busy, then one yearly.

This has especially hit close to come as I've had people close to me who’ve struggled with hoarding (and having to clean up said stuff is hard, difficult work, mostly in trying to evince a case that a product they bought a dozen or more years ago, which they’ve never used, will probably never be something they’ll use). But also, in my work on urban ecosystems, restoration and sustainability, I’ve grown extremely conscious of per capita human footprints of consumption (and waste) upon this creaking world (and how much of that didn’t have to happen in the very first place had it never been consumed/purchased).

But again, each of us has a system for things. This is a description of how I arrived to the “have exactly what you need, when you need it” approach. For me, this approach prioritizes modularity and extensibility, even if the ground-floor cost might be slightly higher to set up: it means adding in/on new needs segue in to what’s already on hand.
 
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Good morning,



I would like to announce a new addition to my team.

I found the Apple MacBook Pro from 2010 on kleinanzeigen.de near one of my customers. It is a 17 inch Macbook Pro.

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It was dirty on the outside and inside, but the dirt eraser, isopropyl alcohol and compressed air saved the Mac. Apart from small scratches on the left rear edge, it is completely undamaged.

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The specifications are: Intel Core I5 with 2.53 GHz, upgraded by me to 8 GB RAM and I installed a 128 GB SSD.

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MacOS 10.13.6 was installed

I installed MacOS 12 Monterey through the OCLP. Monterey runs very well on the Mac.

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Nils Zaayenga said:
Good morning,



I would like to announce a new addition to my team.

I found the Apple MacBook Pro from 2010 on kleinanzeigen.de near one of my customers. It is a 17 inch Macbook Pro.

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It was dirty on the outside and inside, but the dirt eraser, isopropyl alcohol and compressed air saved the Mac. Apart from small scratches on the left rear edge, it is completely undamaged.

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The specifications are: Intel Core I5 with 2.53 GHz, upgraded by me to 8 GB RAM and I installed a 128 GB SSD.

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MacOS 10.13.6 was installed

I installed MacOS 12 Monterey through the OCLP. Monterey runs very well on the Mac.

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Very close to my Dads which is the mid year i7 variant. I've drooled over that mac ever since he brought it home ... 24 years ago LOL. Great score :)
 
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Hello everyone,

after the coincidence with the 17 inch Macbook Pro from slightly last week and the last post, I've kept a new addition from you...
This Mac is really a very early Intel Mac, or in other words, it's the first Macbook Pro.

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I took mine to a flea market last week. Not really a place for Macs. At least not in rural northern Germany.

I found it somewhat hidden at a stand and thought it looked like a PowerBook G4. When I opened it up, I read the magic words.

From the outside it was unkempt and dirty and the battery was empty, but with chargers.
The saleswoman wanted €30 for the Mac, I wanted to give her €10. We agreed on €15.
At home, I plugged it into the mains and... it started up and booted normally.

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The battery was also charging, but it was getting warm. The fans didn't seem to be running. The CPU temperature was around 70°C when idling. I switched off the Mac after about 2 hours and opened it.
It was a bit dusty AND one of the plugs for the fans was out. I cleaned the inside and plugged it in. The Mac had 2 GB of RAM in it. This is also the maximum for the Mac. The original HDD was still installed.
I then restarted the Mac. Everything is fine, the fans are running. The fan control with MacFanControl (which I use in every Mac, or derivatives for G3-G5) also worked.

Yesterday I installed a SSD.

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The values:

Apple MacBook Pro 1.1 (2006), 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo, 2 GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 128 MB RAM, 128 GB SSD.

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Nils Zaayenga said:
Hello everyone,

after the coincidence with the 17 inch Macbook Pro from slightly last week and the last post, I've kept a new addition from you...
This Mac is really a very early Intel Mac, or in other words, it's the first Macbook Pro.

View attachment 2407241

I took mine to a flea market last week. Not really a place for Macs. At least not in rural northern Germany.

I found it somewhat hidden at a stand and thought it looked like a PowerBook G4. When I opened it up, I read the magic words.

From the outside it was unkempt and dirty and the battery was empty, but with chargers.
The saleswoman wanted €30 for the Mac, I wanted to give her €10. We agreed on €15.
At home, I plugged it into the mains and... it started up and booted normally.

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The battery was also charging, but it was getting warm. The fans didn't seem to be running. The CPU temperature was around 70°C when idling. I switched off the Mac after about 2 hours and opened it.
It was a bit dusty AND one of the plugs for the fans was out. I cleaned the inside and plugged it in. The Mac had 2 GB of RAM in it. This is also the maximum for the Mac. The original HDD was still installed.
I then restarted the Mac. Everything is fine, the fans are running. The fan control with MacFanControl (which I use in every Mac, or derivatives for G3-G5) also worked.

Yesterday I installed a SSD.

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The values:

Apple MacBook Pro 1.1 (2006), 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo, 2 GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 128 MB RAM, 128 GB SSD.

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Nice find, great price and that powerbook seems to be in great condition
the Hokusai screensaver is a nice touch!

oh
you get or have the original Leopard or Tiger dvds or cds to install a new drive?
Mine powerbook needed those , which i either lost in 2009 while trying to salvage that laptop.
 
MBAir2010 said:
Nice find, great price and that powerbook seems to be in great condition
the Hokusai screensaver is a nice touch!

oh
you get or have the original Leopard or Tiger dvds or cds to install a new drive?
Mine powerbook needed those , which i either lost in 2009 while trying to salvage that laptop.
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Hello,

I do not have an original CD/DVD.

When I need something, I get the software from the following sites:

- https://www.macintoshrepository.org/
- https://macintoshgarden.org/

Always works well.
 
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