Vintage APPLE set-ups anyone?

[elmarjazz]

A mix of old and newer. MBP 2015 15” 16/1Tb, iPad Pro M1 512Gb, APPLE Thunderbolt Display 2015 (connected to iPad with APPLE TB2-TB3 adapter or to the MBP with dual change/data display connector), IQUNIX F97 ‘Hitchhiker’ mechanical keyboard, APPLE Magic Mouse 2. For portability and desktop use.

With the ‘planned’ MacBook upgrade not happening - price. I’ve resigned myself to working with a combination of old and new tech at this time. But, can’t say it’s all bad, just not the latest and greatest, and actually it looks very APPLE nice, and even though I won’t be getting the coming MACOS update with this ‘legacy’ computer, for now, it does what it does (web, email, writing, photo-editing…).

I can’t be the only one working with vintage. Thought it may be fun to see and show what you have going, and how it’s working for you.

 

[barbu]

Vintage geez. That stuff looks pretty new to me. I’m still using my 2013 iMac as my daily. It’s never felt slow yet, even with the fusion drive.
Anyway, nice set up.

 

[Beau10]

By 'vintage' I was fully expecting to see a blackbird 540c connected to an AE2 w/ 20" Macintosh Color Display, lol.

 

[outis16]

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A mix of old and newer. MBP 2015 15” 16/1Tb, iPad Pro M1 512Gb, APPLE Thunderbolt Display 2015 (connected to iPad with APPLE TB2-TB3 adapter or to the MBP with dual change/data display connector), IQUNIX F97 ‘Hitchhiker’ mechanical keyboard, APPLE Magic Mouse 2. For portability and desktop use.

With the ‘planned’ MacBook upgrade not happening - price. I’ve resigned myself to working with a combination of old and new tech at this time. But, can’t say it’s all bad, just not the latest and greatest, and actually it looks very APPLE nice, and even though I won’t be getting the coming MACOS update with this ‘legacy’ computer, for now, it does what it does (web, email, writing, photo-editing…).

I can’t be the only one working with vintage. Thought it may be fun to see and show what you have going, and how it’s working for you.

Nice bike.

 

[rpmurray]

The iPad looks a bit crooked in the pic.

 

[jav6454]

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A mix of old and newer. MBP 2015 15” 16/1Tb, iPad Pro M1 512Gb, APPLE Thunderbolt Display 2015 (connected to iPad with APPLE TB2-TB3 adapter or to the MBP with dual change/data display connector), IQUNIX F97 ‘Hitchhiker’ mechanical keyboard, APPLE Magic Mouse 2. For portability and desktop use.

With the ‘planned’ MacBook upgrade not happening - price. I’ve resigned myself to working with a combination of old and new tech at this time. But, can’t say it’s all bad, just not the latest and greatest, and actually it looks very APPLE nice, and even though I won’t be getting the coming MACOS update with this ‘legacy’ computer, for now, it does what it does (web, email, writing, photo-editing…).

I can’t be the only one working with vintage. Thought it may be fun to see and show what you have going, and how it’s working for you.

That is another product that escaped me, the Thunderbolt Display.

 

[rpmurray]

That is another product that escaped me, the Thunderbolt Display.

If Apple would just put a 5K display in the same case, update the ports, and sell it for the same price as the original. Is there an "I can dream" emoji?

 

[jav6454]

If Apple would just put a 5K display in the same case, update the ports, and sell it for the same price as the original.

Same price? Doubtful.

 

[Zaren]

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A mix of old and newer. MBP 2015 15” 16/1Tb, iPad Pro M1 512Gb, APPLE Thunderbolt Display 2015 (connected to iPad with APPLE TB2-TB3 adapter or to the MBP with dual change/data display connector), IQUNIX F97 ‘Hitchhiker’ mechanical keyboard, APPLE Magic Mouse 2. For portability and desktop use.

With the ‘planned’ MacBook upgrade not happening - price. I’ve resigned myself to working with a combination of old and new tech at this time. But, can’t say it’s all bad, just not the latest and greatest, and actually it looks very APPLE nice, and even though I won’t be getting the coming MACOS update with this ‘legacy’ computer, for now, it does what it does (web, email, writing, photo-editing…).

I can’t be the only one working with vintage. Thought it may be fun to see and show what you have going, and how it’s working for you.

I spent the first year or so of the pandemic work-from-home with this as my music system:

 

[MacInTO]

I use two 2012 non-retina MacBook Pros. One is an i7 13" that I use exclusively for music and a 15" that is my main computer. Along with the vintage theme, I use High Sierra on these MBPs and also on the 15", I'm using Aperture and Adobe Photoshop CS6.

 

[elmarjazz]

Nice bike.

Guess I’m a vintage guy, 1975 Paris made Alex Singer Randonneur bike, and don’t get me started on old German film cameras!

 

[elmarjazz]

That is another product that escaped me, the Thunderbolt Display.

I’ve had many laptop MACs starting with the Duo 230 back in 1992, but was just looking at the iMAC 24” recently thinking about my needs and it’s value (larger quality display, M1). Don’t know where the TBD came into my thinking, it was never on the radar before, but they are only a couple hundred dollars now, thought I’d give it a try. It’s a late production, came in the box like-new condition, beautiful display image, and pairs perfect with the MBP 2015 w/ TB2. Another thought was if I did go desktop, it could work with a MAC mini M1. For APPLE style and built quality I feel it’s a pretty good deal, and 2k is enough.

 

[elmarjazz]

The iPad looks a bit crooked in the pic.

May be, or it’s the iPhone wide distortion at this angle. The iPad is on a magnetic LuluLook stand, and it free swivels even to portrait, so easy to adjust. With the keyboard and mouse I think of it as my mini iMAC.