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New version of Interweb was announced just yesterday
Those guys making browsers for SL rock!
That's the one I was using. Back to Lion and BM and so much smoother.New version of Interweb was announced just yesterday
Those guys making browsers for SL rock!
Have been manually rebuilding my music library that has carried over for years into the modern mess called Apple Music. Between iTunes (now Apple Music) Match, and none of the systems having the ability to actually detect duplicate songs, I had (sometimes) upto 15 copies of the exact same version of a song, with various qualities.
Using my Unibody Late 2008 MacBook Pro, I worked with files from my Mac Pro 3,1, M4 Mini, and G5 Powermac to make a unified volume of media, and started the process of culling the files using a combination of processes within the Finder using Spotlight + Raw queries, and a copy of iTunes in El Capitan.
I decided against buying a tool that could do this, as I wanted to sample the audio files myself and the trip down memory lane was quite great overall!
Using my Unibody Late 2008 MacBook Pro, I worked with files from my Mac Pro 3,1, M4 Mini, and G5 Powermac to make a unified volume of media, and started the process of culling the files using a combination of processes within the Finder using Spotlight + Raw queries, and a copy of iTunes in El Capitan.
I decided against buying a tool that could do this, as I wanted to sample the audio files myself and the trip down memory lane was quite great overall!
Nothing wrong with Lion. I for one really like Lion. Others will disagree, but to each their own. I dual boot Win7 and Lion on this old C2D MacMini. Both run extremely well after plopping in a SSD to replace the old spinning rust.
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Is it just me? I tried the BrassMonkey on 2009 MacBook Pro with macOS Ventura installed, it is pretty laggy.
Hard to say. Did you install any of the ad and script blockers from the linked extras.zip? Do you use more than 20 tabs at a time? Lots of variables here.
I will definitely consider this in the New Year. At the very least, an OWC Acelsior card, but this is the setup to aim at!And don’t forget an AHCI PCIe SSD to really make it fly. 1500 MB/s anyone?
Depends on the vintage, they were made over many years and several generations. What is it?
Sorry, forgot about the year. It was 2011 version 15 inch MacBook Pro. Broken screen can mean broken screen, or the infamous graphic card problem.
This is why I am debating.
Thanks to a fortuitous listing on FB Marketplace, I scored a free 2 GB DDR2 SO-DIMM, which I've put on the "cursed" BlackBook. Now it's sitting pretty at 3 GB. Next is to try getting a cheap SSD upgrade for it - and at this point, I don't even care if it's used. It's not like it would be any worse than using a second-hand hard drive, would it?
I even figured out how to get rid of the spurious Lion Internet Recovery volume in the Terminal. I honestly didn't think diskutil in 10.6 supported merging partitions in HFS+. Pretty remarkable to be still learning new things about Snow Leopard after all this time.
I even figured out how to get rid of the spurious Lion Internet Recovery volume in the Terminal. I honestly didn't think diskutil in 10.6 supported merging partitions in HFS+. Pretty remarkable to be still learning new things about Snow Leopard after all this time.
This is a 2009 15inch Macbook Pro that I scored on Facebook Market Place two years ago, for like $50. The listing shows not functional, as is part. The only problem is that it had dying HDD and not functional optical drive. The owner doesn't know how to install OS.
Changed an SSD, loaded the Snow Leopard. God, I miss the intro video. Use this occasionally and recently I upgraded to macOS Ventura.
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Tonight's exercise…
Take a picture of my ornamental Spanish sword, cut it out of the background, apply the Poster Edges effect and a drop shadow.
2009 Mac Pro, Photoshop CC22.
The white background is it's own layer, as you can see with the second pic (transparent background). I have the white layer just to make the sword more visible.
I couldn't find any decent looking swords through Google (I've never really been able to find a good one). So, I decided this time, just to use a shot of my own.
My parents (and my sister) took a trip to Spain in 1998 (or so). My mom brought me back this. There is 'Toledo' stamped on it, so I have to assume that's Toledo, Spain. Unless they were lying and they took their vacation in Ohio.
Take a picture of my ornamental Spanish sword, cut it out of the background, apply the Poster Edges effect and a drop shadow.
2009 Mac Pro, Photoshop CC22.
The white background is it's own layer, as you can see with the second pic (transparent background). I have the white layer just to make the sword more visible.
I couldn't find any decent looking swords through Google (I've never really been able to find a good one). So, I decided this time, just to use a shot of my own.
My parents (and my sister) took a trip to Spain in 1998 (or so). My mom brought me back this. There is 'Toledo' stamped on it, so I have to assume that's Toledo, Spain. Unless they were lying and they took their vacation in Ohio.
Well, interestingly the 240gb ssd in my 08 aluminum unibody MacBook died catastrophically. What I mean is I rebooted the Lubuntu install I had on it and it booted back up as not having a boot drive. Perplexed by this, I yanked it out and tested with a number of other boxes I have and none could see it - in any capacity. macOS DU couldn’t see it, Ubuntu’s Gparted couldn’t see it, nor windows disk management see it. I’ve never had a disk fail like this where it was completely dead as if it was not there. Nothing lost really but was not expecting this. Time to upgrade to a bigger ssd!
Subsequently I’m dropping Lubuntu onto a 3rd partition on my a1181 until I pick up a new SSD. Speaking of SSDs I actually ran out of space on my I7 gaming box lol so will be looking at a pcie/nvme solution/upgrade there and I could push that ssd to this MB vs buying a new one.
Subsequently I’m dropping Lubuntu onto a 3rd partition on my a1181 until I pick up a new SSD. Speaking of SSDs I actually ran out of space on my I7 gaming box lol so will be looking at a pcie/nvme solution/upgrade there and I could push that ssd to this MB vs buying a new one.
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God yes; keep them coming. (I just snagged an unscuffed G4 mirror-door tower for $12.) Next step, beyond these web-interface bandaids, is to fork the whole MacOS kernel into a truly portable OS that'll launch almost anything (with on-the-fly driver/kext management) made during a ~20yr span. Imagine taking a your pocket SSD normally attached to your 2019 Xeon screamer, sneaker-netting to an old CRT iMac or G4 tower, plugging it in, and the boot EFI detects what you're using and dials down accordingly while retaining theoretical software compatibility across the entire range. I.e., a particular piece might be unusable or crash, but Apple's artificial-obsolescence team will no longer have any say in the matter.New version of Interweb was announced just yesterday
Those guys making browsers for SL rock!
Well, interestingly the 240gb ssd in my 08 aluminum unibody MacBook died catastrophically. What I mean is I rebooted the Lubuntu install I had on it and it booted back up as not having a boot drive. Perplexed by this, I yanked it out and tested with a number of other boxes I have and none could see it - in any capacity. macOS DU couldn’t see it, Ubuntu’s Gparted couldn’t see it, nor windows disk management see it. I’ve never had a disk fail like this where it was completely dead as if it was not there. Nothing lost really but was not expecting this. Time to upgrade to a bigger ssd!
I'm curious to know about the brand/age of your SSD. I've gotten into the habit of just using DRAM-less SSDs in my A1181s as they're cheaper. They're apparently supposed to have lesser longevity than more expensive SSDs with a DRAM cache, but it's hard for me to justify putting something like an 870 EVO in a Core Duo A1181.
When an SSD bricks, they're perma-toast. Nothing can see them. They become like a spinner drive with seized bearings. (The way to greatly, massively, prolong the life of them is by turning off ALL of Apple's telemetry, logging, syching, and unvarnished spyware. MRT? Dead. Spotlight? Shot through the head. ReportCrash? Murdolated. -- Kill all three of those, and Mojave will use under 2gb of ram at rest in an 8gb system, and purr on a rotational-drive the way you used to remember Snow Leopard behaving back in the day. There's more to kill than those, too. In particular, clear Adobe and MS crud out of your LaunchDaemon folders.)
The job of a GUI OS is to interpret user device input. A slow computer counts to a quadrillion between each of your keystrokes, and a faster computer counts to a gazillion; aside from that, they're both nitromethane dragsters idling at the stoplight. The only way Apple can force you to distinguish between them is to trick you into "upgrading" to a newer OS specifically designed to destroy older components. So along comes MRT and lots of background logging to wear-level the piss out of early SSDs (such as those first-gen Airs whose inadequate ram kicked in full-time caching), APFS random-sector writing to wear out rotational drives w/Catalina, and whatever the F they did to somehow make 2019 MBPs with i9s run like crippled dogs with their fur on fire.
Your old systems don't need new guts; they need debloated operating-systems running debloated replacement browsers with adblocking. The macOS needs to be forked yesterday, plain and simple.
Mushkin eco2 240gb sata3. Its an old one at this point. IIRC I got it around 2016 new, so a now old SSD in an even older macbook lol.
Subsequently, I am figuring out a pcie nvme solution for my i7 gaming box, so the ssd in that thing is even older lol - a sandisk of some sort. I'll probably drop that thing in the a1278.
Time for more house/dog-sitting over Christmas, so will be taking the 11" MBA for duty and the hires MBP to play with.
Or throw in a Metal compatible GPU and move forward with a more modern copy of MacOS with OCLP.
I have a 3,1 in daily use and for GPU aware applications like Lightroom and some functions on FCPx, it holds up well with an M1, actually is faster at exporting batch processed images than the M1.
EDIT the 3,1 also has an RX580, I didn't put that in my table
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I'm away from home over Christmas, but there's a GTX680 waiting for me to flash when I get back!Or throw in a Metal compatible GPU and move forward with a more modern copy of MacOS with OCLP.
I have a 3,1 in daily use and for GPU aware applications like Lightroom and some functions on FCPx, it holds up well with an M1, actually is faster at exporting batch processed images than the M1.
EDIT the 3,1 also has an RX580, I didn't put that in my table
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I can indeed confirm that the 240 GB Patriot Burst Elite SATA SSD does indeed work in the A1181. Or at least my 2007 2,1 A1181. Congratulations to my Oreo BlackBook for finally breaking out of the early 2000s...
I was genuinely surprised that this worked at all. The Patriot Burst Elite is a fairly contemporary SATA III SSD which uses the relatively recent QLC type of flash. Given my experiences with the WD Green SSD I was under the impression that unless manufacturers explicit note compatibility with SATA I/II, backwards compatibility can't be assumed, even though techically the SATA III standard is supposed to be able to work with SATA I/II motherboards and devices.
A quick online search yields links to people telling people to not buy the Patriot Burst Elite due to chronic reliability issues with its YMTC-produced NAND flash chips. Yet a quick look at the full specs for the entire range of the Patriot Burst Elite SSD really was eye opening. The issues seem to apply only to the 1.9 TB model (or does it, since Patriot also uses presumably safe Micron-produced flash for the 1.9 TB model). Meanwhile, I seem to be okay with my $20 240 GB Amazon special...it uses the RealTek RTS5766DL controller chip with Kioxia (formerly Toshiba?) flash memory.
IIRC the chip in the WD Green SSD that gave me so much grief was a Silicon Motion SM2258XT.
It really makes me wish SSD manufacturers were more trasparent about the NAND flash and controller chips in their products.
Windows-only eh? Heh.
I was genuinely surprised that this worked at all. The Patriot Burst Elite is a fairly contemporary SATA III SSD which uses the relatively recent QLC type of flash. Given my experiences with the WD Green SSD I was under the impression that unless manufacturers explicit note compatibility with SATA I/II, backwards compatibility can't be assumed, even though techically the SATA III standard is supposed to be able to work with SATA I/II motherboards and devices.
A quick online search yields links to people telling people to not buy the Patriot Burst Elite due to chronic reliability issues with its YMTC-produced NAND flash chips. Yet a quick look at the full specs for the entire range of the Patriot Burst Elite SSD really was eye opening. The issues seem to apply only to the 1.9 TB model (or does it, since Patriot also uses presumably safe Micron-produced flash for the 1.9 TB model). Meanwhile, I seem to be okay with my $20 240 GB Amazon special...it uses the RealTek RTS5766DL controller chip with Kioxia (formerly Toshiba?) flash memory.
IIRC the chip in the WD Green SSD that gave me so much grief was a Silicon Motion SM2258XT.
It really makes me wish SSD manufacturers were more trasparent about the NAND flash and controller chips in their products.
Windows-only eh? Heh.