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Sadly, some of our favorite phone makers are no more.

Nokia = HMB. Now Nokia is just a name badge slapped on somebody else's kit.
Motorola = Lenovo
BlackBerry = Gone to Android
Palm = Gone

Loved 'em all, but my favorite was BlackBerry and the BB7 OS. No social media, just text and email. And of course PIN messaging. I remember a buddy of mine at work getting his first BlackBerry and being over the moon with it. So I "pinged" him at 3:00 AM. Turned off my radio, keyed in about 50 pings, and turned my radio back on. His BlackBerry on his bedside table went nuts for about 4 minutes, woke him up, and generally confused the hell out of him.
 
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yep... had a bb... made in canada once.... unlocked it and sold it (cheap).... there are a lot of BBs at the flea-market that I use to go b4 march.
anieways here photos of HTC.
 

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Goftrey said:
I wouldn't necessarily call them setup threads - for example post your oldest living Mac or post your PowerPC Macs - I could show you a bunch of towers in a cupboard but that wouldn't be a setup.

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I just expanded on AQUADock's Lion theme for Leopard by changing the Spaces & Expose icons and changing Bodega's icon to the App Store:)
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iMac G3 DV SE Graphite 2000, and two iBook (Dual Usb Snow) G3’s. Working on them and their upgrades.

iBook upgrades: 512MB RAM, Apple 2001 SuperDrive (which was $30.. ugh), new battery, OS X Tiger, Keyboard, AirPort card.

iMac G3 upgrades: OS X Tiger, 750 MB RAM, AirPort. I plan on upgrading to a 7410 G4 if possible.. slot loading.

I bought an Airport Extreme from 2002 for my pre-WiFi computers.

Got the iMac G3 for $10! iBook G3 was my moms; I inherited it.
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This is what happens when you have too many projects you're working on for multiple platforms.....

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From left to right to floor:
MacMini C2D 1.83ghz (bottom)
MacMini G4 1.5ghz (top)
PowerBook G4 1.67ghz (center)
MacMini G4 1.5ghz (top left shelf)
Macbook 2.4ghz (top shelf)
iMac C2D 2ghz (right)
PowerMac G5 Dual 2ghz (floor left)
PowerMac G5 1.6ghz (floor right)
 
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wicknix said:
This is what happens when you have too many projects you're working on for multiple platforms.....

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PowerBook G4 1.67ghz (center)
MacMini G4 1.5ghz (top left shelf)
Macbook 2.4ghz (top shelf)
iMac C2D 2ghz (right)
PowerMac G5 Dual 2ghz (floor left)
PowerMac G5 1.6ghz (floor right)
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I am in a worst situation , I abandoned most projects, and have total lack of space . apartment full, room so full....
 
I’ve got so many Macs, If anyone is interested, I have a Macbook Pro for parts that won’t boot but turns on, need to get rid of it, If anyone wants it, pickup in SoCal. I have wayyyy too many macs and it’s taking up way too much space..
 
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Just put a SSD in the 12" 1.5, cloning the Tiger install from the 15" 1.25. The top plate was loose and I gorilla glued it down after I put it back together. Both of these machines have ram maxed and a 256 mSata SSD. Both have seen better days but they hold a special place in my heart from the mid and late 2000's and early 10's when Apple was so very different...
 
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Just got this 15" PowerBook G4 1.67ghz dl/hr up and running the other day. Popped in 2gb ram, a 128sd card in an IDE adapter, and installed Tiger. It runs Halo at Medium almost not terrible :)

Keyboard bows out a little in the middle, turns out I have a sort in the keyboard cable that causes the power button to not work. Stuck something in between it to keep the cable from folding too much, and it's fine. Makes the keyboard a bit more ergonomic...

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Spock said:
My PowerMac G4 MDD, dual 1.25 GHz with 1.5 gigs of RAM and 17 inch Cinema Display. The last and fastest Mac that could officially boot Mac OS 9.
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I've been very curious lately about how those screens have aged, I just so happened to have gotten myself my own 1.25 ghz MDD, and now I'm wondering if it'd be worth trying to get my hands on a Cinema Display of my own.
 
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I've been very curious lately about how those screens have aged, I just so happened to have gotten myself my own 1.25 ghz MDD, and now I'm wondering if it'd be worth trying to get my hands on a Cinema Display of my own.
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I think my two Studio Displays and my single 20" Cinema Display are doing fairly well. I use them both daily for graphic work for my job.

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repairedCheese said:
I've been very curious lately about how those screens have aged, I just so happened to have gotten myself my own 1.25 ghz MDD, and now I'm wondering if it'd be worth trying to get my hands on a Cinema Display of my own.
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I have a 17 and a 15 inch and the 17 inch has a dark border around it, I don’t notice it after a while but I’m sure it will eventually bite the dust. My 15 inch is with my G4 Cube and it has a great picture but the back foot no longer holds the display up. Some are in great shape, luck of the draw I guess. I also have an ADC to DVI adapter but when it’s hooked to my iMac or Mac mini it gives me HDCP errors when I try to play content on them like Netflix. That’s another thing to keep in mind, these are ADC and the adapters are getting hard to find. You could get the 22 inch with DVI but they are extremely rare.
 
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I've been very curious lately about how those screens have aged, I just so happened to have gotten myself my own 1.25 ghz MDD, and now I'm wondering if it'd be worth trying to get my hands on a Cinema Display of my own.
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I got a 17 inch ACD with my MDD purchase recently. Picture was fine (occasionally some weird colouring appeared on the right, but then went away) but I sold it on as ADC really limits your options because without using that super expensive adapter,
A) you basically can't significantly upgrade your GPU. The Radeon 9600XT from a G5 is I think the only properly faster card that had an ADC connector but to get it to work in a G4 you have to solder some connectors together, and I wasn't comfortable doing that.
B) you can't use the display with anything else!
C) 17" is very small now.

So I sold it and now have dual 20" aluminium Apple Cinema Displays, which have DVI connectors and makes my life a lot easier in terms of compatibility.
 
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r6mile said:
I got a 17 inch ACD with my MDD purchase recently. Picture was fine (occasionally some weird colouring appeared on the right, but then went away) but I sold it on as ADC really limits your options because without using that super expensive adapter,
A) you basically can't significantly upgrade your GPU. The Radeon 9600XT from a G5 is I think the only properly faster card that had an ADC connector but to get it to work in a G4 you have to solder some connectors together, and I wasn't comfortable doing that.
B) you can't use the display with anything else!
C) 17" is very small now.

So I sold it and now have dual 20" aluminium Apple Cinema Displays, which have DVI connectors and makes my life a lot easier in terms of compatibility.
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Considering the fact that I did buy the thing to be my OS 9 capable Mac, and that I actually am actually on the hunt for a Geforce4 Ti 4600, the best video card fully supported by OS 9, that I can't use a screen like that with anything else is ok by me. And believe me, I know 17" is pretty small, I have a 17" ViewSonic G773 plugged into it through a dvi to vga adaptor. It's a very lovely crt so I'm not complaining.

Mostly I'm hoping because the screens are useless with anything else, I can get one for next to nothing. :D
 
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repairedCheese said:
Mostly I'm hoping because the screens are useless with anything else, I can get one for next to nothing. :D
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Unfortunately that is not usually the case in the world of Mac's :)
Wish you luck! But yes for reference I sold mine for £35 shipped IIRC, so they're not exactly pricey. I'm sure a 20 inch would fetch a fair bit more.
 
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repairedCheese said:
Mostly I'm hoping because the screens are useless with anything else, I can get one for next to nothing. :D
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If you're in Europe (shipping to the US would be murder), I'll be willing to let go of a 20" and one of my 23"s. Not for nothing, but not for a fortune either ;) And they're not useless, you just need that DVI-to-ADC adapter - the last one I bought was like 30 bucks.
 
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Amethyst1 said:
If you're in Europe (shipping to the US would be murder), I'll be willing to let go of a 20" and one of my 23"s. Not for nothing, but not for a fortune either ;) And they're not useless, you just need that DVI-to-ADC adapter - the last one I bought was like 30 bucks.
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And now I can add yet another reason I wish I were in Europe. Alas, it's not to be. I really do appreciate the offer, though.
 
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