Oh, that's in perfect match with everyone, who did see this yet ... 😀@bobesch - Not sure whether I love or hate the "Appledows" logo on the MBP's lid
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Oh, did you upgrade to an SSD and maxed-out RAM yet?
Then You'd be happy with HighSierra too ... (no reason to go back to SnowLeopard, unless you depend on Rosetta)
Or you can dual boot between the two, as I do with Snow Leopard and El Capitan my 2010 MBA.
I currently have a Mini on Snow Leopard. I partitioned the 320GB hard drive on it to act as a small secondary server share. I'l dump stuff in there that I want to transfer between Macs (or PCs). It's not meant to be long term, but I'm also not running Server on it like I am on my B&W G3.
But as I got the Mac to function as a secondary server I also have Hazel installed. Currently, it's monitoring a specific folder on my NAS. When new files are detected in that folder, Hazel creates a new dated folder and files them in there. That's allowing me to keep revisions of QuarkXPress documents that I periodically copy in there.
I also have a 17" PowerBook MBP running SL and it's main purpose is media. I have a rear projection TV (40" I think) attached to it (this Mac is in the garage) and I also use Nightingale on it to listen to my music library. If I ever get back in to RPGs (the Dungeons & Dragons type) the TV (and thus the MBP) will be used to display information to the players, things such as maps and so forth.
Pretty much anything and everything I can do on High Sierra with my early 2011 MBP I can do more quickly and with less doubt on Snow Leopard (from an SSD boot volume).
That said, I don’t make Zoom calls, use cloud services, or use the App Store on any device, and I can’t speak to those in a SL environment.
As with @B S Magnet, nearly everything that I could also accomplish in El Capitan. I watch my TV recordings for starters.
Play retro arcade games.
I'm able to get online.
Disk Utility in Snow Leopard is free of the amputations that Apple have performed upon the functionality of its successors and the other day it got me out of a fix with a USB flash drive that wouldn't reformat correctly in El Capitan. When I needed to modify an MacOS image to create a custom installer for my MacBook Air, I discovered that El Capitan is so locked down that I needed to switch to Snow Leopard in order to carry out the work.
Almost all of my productivity software (Office 2011, Pages '09, Audacity, GIMP, Adobe Acrobat Pro...) works under Snow Leopard (because that's where I'd used them for years) and the main factor behind me upgrading to El Capitan was the availability of updated browsers but the generosity of @wicknix has redressed that somewhat.
This wildcat is still viable in many areas.
Don't retire those old MacMini3,1, yet. Big Sur is very useful on these little old tanks -
I've had a 3,1 for the last year and a half. Got it in late 2019 for $60. I was looking for it specifically because I wanted to run Mojave on it. Upgraded it to 8GB ram. I don't think anyone in this particular subforum is going to retire any of these Macs. We actually worked fairly hard to get this specific forum separated from the PowerPC Macs forum specifically because we use these older Macs.
I'm still using a 2006 17" MacBook Pro, right along with my older PowerPC Macs. I have an even older Mini I got specifically for another purpose. It's running Snow Leopard (as is the 17" MBP).
But the 3,1 Mini I got because it'll run Adobe CS 2020/2021. Catalina is next for it. There's nothing in Big Sur I need at the moment.
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The ability to run two monitors off the 2009 (and later) minis is such a game-changer. And your dual-portrait setup rules.
Makes me want to set one up too.
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24" iMac, with Mountain Lion, SSD and 3GB ram. Set it up at my mom's place on an Ikea Micke desk, perfect fit This is her first computer, Firefox Legacy runs surprisingly good on it, just fine for Youtube(even 1080p), Facebook, Pinterest.
This is her first computer, Firefox Legacy runs surprisingly good on it, just fine for Youtube(even 1080p), Facebook, Pinterest.
Nice. Are you running a boot SSD? if so what brand/model? I tried both an IBM and Sandisk, and the performance was terrible. I assumed it was maybe incompatibility with the old SATA interface.
With OCLP 0.1.2 was able to install Big Sur onto Sandisk SSD ext. via USB and onto a 1TB Pioneer internal SSD partitioned with Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave and High Sierra booting. All partitions "Unsupported" macOS releases. Big Sur runs quicker than High Sierra on the Mini3,1 even on the ext. SSD.
Can I give a shout-out to the original I7? A lot of people on this forum don’t like it but it was bought at the same time a 21.5 core duo was that supposedly does count. This things putting in work 11.5 years after purchase.
Yeah, the 2009 27" iMac and 2010 MBP are in a bit of a weird spot due to being available with both C2D and Nehalem CPUs. I'd say both count.
Me and my dad bought iMacs on the day of the original iPad release. Apple techs looked at us weird when we said we were there for iMacs. I got a 21.5 core 2 duo he got an i7 27. That thing is still solid. I’d use it. obviously I’ve since given up the 21.5(lot of video transcoding, I used to move video to a stick and use my dads computer to encode it). I truly believe (within a year or two) it was intel’s peak.
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Really? I don't see that. The original i5/i7 ran "a bit" hot but it wasn't bad or anything. More importantly, it brought four cores into the 27" iMac.
The day has come. For comparison purposes…
My wife hates the look of this chair, and I'm not a big fan either. I asked if maybe they had a white on black style but they don't. However, what it makes up for is comfort. Its ridiculously comfortable and my wife does agree on that.
And, last but not least…wire. This is the wire that I am going to use to keep the two 23" Cinema Displays connected to their base through the hinge when I turn those displays vertical.
Going to be busy tonight and tomorrow.
My wife hates the look of this chair, and I'm not a big fan either. I asked if maybe they had a white on black style but they don't. However, what it makes up for is comfort. Its ridiculously comfortable and my wife does agree on that.
And, last but not least…wire. This is the wire that I am going to use to keep the two 23" Cinema Displays connected to their base through the hinge when I turn those displays vertical.
Going to be busy tonight and tomorrow.
OK. That took about six hours, start to finish. Still have to bring the coffee table in and put some other stuff back, but the major stuff is done.
The vertical CDs are held by green twine. The wire I wanted to use was too thick to fit through the holes.
Also, I have a clamp-on keyboard tray on the way. Wasn't expecting the table to be as high as it is.
After some time, will see about finishing up the new desktop backgrounds.
The vertical CDs are held by green twine. The wire I wanted to use was too thick to fit through the holes.
Also, I have a clamp-on keyboard tray on the way. Wasn't expecting the table to be as high as it is.
After some time, will see about finishing up the new desktop backgrounds.
First you take them off the hinge. Then rotate the panel. I also pulled the cable out of the center hole of the stand.
Technically you can then just lean them against the stand, but I wanted a little more protection so I routed twine through the hinge holes of the display and the holes of the stand. If for whatever reason the display falls forward (difficult since it's leaning back) the twine is going to stop it.
Vertical Cinema Displays
So, I was doing some thinking, considering there is not much space with my current setup. Having my two 23" Cinema Displays vertical would be a pretty neat trick, one on each side of the two 30 inchers. Other than just turning the display though I was wondering how I could manage this. The VESA...
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Vertical Cinema Display?
I'm going to be getting a new iMac and I really love my ACD so I'd like to use them together. I'm pretty sure I've seen this but I'm looking for a way to have the ACD vertical so I can use it for my dock and web page screen. I'm not looking for a wall mount. I'm not sure if it's an adaptor...
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https://web.archive.org/web/20090801075944/mortarandpixel.com/blog/2008/09/vertical-cinema-display/