I would like it a lot if Apple came out with a new laptop that was rugged like the PowerBook G3.
that OS X GUI was so beautiful 20 years later they still use same looking icons and its still beautiful. Windows 10 GUI looks like a GUI for a manufacturing plant machines. Look at this horror show.
Many years ago I was a solid PC guy, then Apple came along with Aqua. I fell in love with the look, but I held strong to my PCness. I had an app for the PC called StarDock, which would let a person radically change the look of WinXP, well one of the mods was Aqua. I was in love!This is going to turn into an Aqua thread lol.
I think the last version that had a certain “weight” and gravitas to is was Tiger. Aqua has a certain “reality” to it that’s hard to describe. It’s so jarring even when you come from something like Windows 10.
That's just a phone line anyway.Any electrician will tell you that you don't need to cover live wires. Just paint 'em over.
Tiger was a very polished release of OS X. Its basically when OS X became a mainstream alternative to Windows; and the transition to Intel further solidified that. The only thing I didn't like about Tigers UI was the brushed metal Finder and it was so strange, because iTunes 5.0 which came out the same year as Tiger had the right texture. I remember the rumors around 2005/2006 about codename 'Marble' UI coming in 10.5. It was basically the iTunes 5.0 UI systemwide.This is going to turn into an Aqua thread lol.
I think the last version that had a certain “weight” and gravitas to is was Tiger. Aqua has a certain “reality” to it that’s hard to describe. It’s so jarring even when you come from something like Windows 10.
I got hooked when my friend took me to only Apple reseller in country in 1992 that was apparently just 10 min walk from our University. I do not remember all machines but first one was Macintosh LC II....The first Mac I ever bought was the original 17" PowerBook G4 1 GHz in 2001. At the time, it was my third computer, after a Compaq and a Spaniard PC I bought when stationed there (running the AWFUL Windows ME).
I saw OS X at some store, and that was it. Hooked for life.
This thread brought me back!
I've owned (besides countless iPods, a few iPads, and an iPhone 4s):
Powerbook G4 17"
G4 Cube with the clear CRT and ball speakers
G5 Power Mac with the 20" Aluminum Cinema Display and separate iSight Camera (still miss that cool setup)
iMac G5 20" (the white/clear one)
iBook (white)
MacBook (original white one)
Several 27" iMacs
Several 13", 15" and 17" Unibody MBPs (tried smaller but kept going back to the 17", where I started).
I was referring to OSX not 9 to be honest.. in particular tiger and snow leopard, the best and most solid OS Apple has ever made. From lion onwards a catastrophe in my opinionNice pairing!
I did my "desktop transitions" series when my M1 mini arrived:
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Selective memory. There were a few specific OS versions that were very stable - but there was a *LOT* of instability in the Mac OS 8.5 -> 9.2.1 range, and in the Mac OS X 10.0.0 -> 10.2 range.
9.2.2 was generally rock solid (thankfully, as the final release,) as were the later 10.2.x releases. But 8.5, 8.6, 9.0, 9.1 all had SUPER buggy releases; the whole of 10.0.x, and most of 10.1.x as well.
I am guessing a bit but possibly a doorbell connection or something similar - hopefully something low voltage anyway.Something related to the electrical socket (a transformer or ?) I guess.
Certainly max out your usage of the existing sub, why not.I will play it and see if I like it, but after more than two decades on Office, its gonna be hard to switch. But even before I do switch, I will use up my MSDN sub get that free copy out of it before it expires next year.
Wow I feel old. I don't think he was trying to be funny about not knowing what landline phone connections looked like back in the day 😂Its the old App Store! LOL! No, I think its an old phone line, probably something the Wallstreet knows about very well.
It's a wall mount for a telephone. In my day a telephone was a telephone. If ya' wanted to watch a movie ya' had a television in the living room, or go out to a movie theatre.
I remember my LC II, it was my dad's computer until he upgraded to a Peforma 6400/200. He dropped in an aftermarket 040 card in the II before he gave it to me.I got hooked when my friend took me to only Apple reseller in country in 1992 that was apparently just 10 min walk from our University. I do not remember all machines but first one was Macintosh LC II....
I would say this new M1 MacBooks are the new Powerbooks. Ok, they are not Power PC, but it is based on a RISC CPU as well. And it eats Intel laptops for breakfast!!The real question is when are the PowerBook G5’s gonna arrive...
That table lamp iMac... That was the one.Nice pairing!
I did my "desktop transitions" series when my M1 mini arrived:
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Selective memory. There were a few specific OS versions that were very stable - but there was a *LOT* of instability in the Mac OS 8.5 -> 9.2.1 range, and in the Mac OS X 10.0.0 -> 10.2 range.
9.2.2 was generally rock solid (thankfully, as the final release,) as were the later 10.2.x releases. But 8.5, 8.6, 9.0, 9.1 all had SUPER buggy releases; the whole of 10.0.x, and most of 10.1.x as well.