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Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present (Part 4)
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Mac users are so clean. Forgive this but im not sure theres an apple product in the first pic, though theres some ipods somewhere on that desk.
The second is my beloved ][c, I found it under an apple tree on hard rubbish night. Works perfectly and even had "pooyan" in the disk drive , I love that game. Moniter checks out fine , no yellow tinting
two more days till my mbp comes. Im losing my sanity.
The second is my beloved ][c, I found it under an apple tree on hard rubbish night. Works perfectly and even had "pooyan" in the disk drive , I love that game. Moniter checks out fine , no yellow tinting
two more days till my mbp comes. Im losing my sanity.
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Mac users are so clean. Forgive this but im not sure theres an apple product in the first pic, though theres some ipods somewhere on that desk.
The second is my beloved ][c, I found it under an apple tree on hard rubbish night. Works perfectly and even had "pooyan" in the disk drive , I love that game. Moniter checks out fine , no yellow tinting
two more days till my mbp comes. Im losing my sanity.
I bow down.
The 32gb CF card (i bought the A-Data brand before the Transcend -- faster model -- was out for purchase) is from newegg.com, and the ata -> cf adapter can be purchased on ebay (this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl..._widget&_trksid=p284.m183&_trkparms=its=S%2BI)
Definitely worth it, though, I'd get the Transcend model if I had it to do over, the write speed on the A-DATA model is really slow, but the read speed is EXTREMELY fast, so the ipod with rockbox on it is super responsive.
EDIT: oops, forgot to give prices; the cf card was like 135$ and the ata->cf adapter was like 10$ shipped from HK
check out http://geektechnique.org/blog/760/part-3-ipod-mini-with-16gb-and-then-some for the site that inspired that mod and for more info on ipod mods in general.
I'll try some local dealers, and check out which Lane chairs they sell.
Thanks for the effort!
Did you notice any increase in battery life. I might consider doing this with some old iPods that have dodgy harddrives.
I'm not opening my classic!! but i do have a 4g ipod without a color screen, and that could use an HD replace, the thing still works, but the HD is about to die, its not because its slow, its because when you shake it, you can hear the spindle hitting against the disk
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Yeah, I saw Mark Hoekstra's article earlier, and it's quite funny because after I saw that you had used a 32GB card, I newegg'd it (because newegg is the cheapest for just about anything.) Prices are really dropping on the cards, soon 64GB will be under $100, then you really can revive those older iPods (ipod mini, 4G, etc.)
Absolutely, I was going to wait for the 64gb drives that samsung and panasonic announced, but i had already sold my 5.5g ipod video and the hd in my 4g was going out, so i decided to just use my 4g.
As far as battery life goes, I need to get a new battery for this one too, I have just been putting it over, if I had a new battery I'm positive hte battery life would increase by at least 1.5-2x
It's definitely a worthwhile mod, and once you put Rockbox on there, you're good to go for any lossless audio format you could want. In addition, you can perform a DIY "iMod" much like the one you pay hundreds of dollars for if you have Red Wine Audio to do it for you.
Hope you all get yours done, it's well worth it.
Well for me it's because I use hot corners and the upper right corner I use for Expose and using it as an extended monitor it doesn't work until I go into the other screen's corner. I need my expose hot corner! I could rearrange and put my MacBook on the other side, then I would have to put my 360 on the other side and I don't like the idea of that standing up close to my door. I don't want that to get knocked over.
I do like it in extended desktop mode though, it's quite cool. Just more practical (for me) in clamshell.
I'll try some local dealers, and check out which Lane chairs they sell.
Thanks for the effort!
Np, glad to help.
I know, but I asked just to make sure, it looks very uncomfortable IMO.
eh, alot of people prefer to lounge around rather than crouched over their desk. I would love a mini for my home theater, if I could afford it and had money to burn.
for life!
I honestly think it's a scheme to get people to upgrade to Leopard.
1. Make a horribly unusable system update, rendering your computer slower then a turtle in molasses in the dead of winter.
2. User of said computer buys Leopard after nothing else works.
3. $$$ for Apple!
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