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What have you done with an early Intel recently?

Sounds like a boring and dumb plan, but I'm on COVID protocol and bored and Ive been watching Halt and Catch Fire and feeling nostalgic, so I am going to build all my main photo and music libraries in Tiger. That's why I needed the new HD. First stage is complete WD 500 Blue booting 10.4.11 perfectly. Stage 2 will be to export all photos out of a Catalina photos library for use in iPhoto 08 and iTunes 9.2.1. I have 2 main libraries that I maintain in iTunes, a 120GB and a 560GB, the 120 is the core library of can't live withouts like Floyd and Leppelin and Lana. Stage 3 will be admiring my modern digital life inside my favorite OS of all time on a 16 year old laptop that feels as fast as my M1 running Tiger. I love me some Intel Tiger...
 
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Jack Neill said:
Sounds like a boring and dumb plan, but I'm on COVID protocol and bored and Ive been watching Halt and Catch Fire and feeling nostalgic, so I am going to build all my main photo and music libraries in Tiger. That's why I needed the new HD. First stage is complete WD 500 Blue booting 10.4.11 perfectly. Stage 2 will be to export all photos out of a Catalina photos library for use in iPhoto 08 and iTunes 9.2.1. I have 2 main libraries that I maintain in iTunes, a 120GB and a 560GB, the 120 is the core library of can't live withouts like Floyd and Leppelin and Lana. Stage 3 will be admiring my modern digital life inside my favorite OS of all time on a 16 year old laptop that feels as fast as my M1 running Tiger. I love me some Intel Tiger...
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im doing the opposite and extorting 4 drives of movies and photos.
I had copies on 3 drives of the same genre of movies i won't watch again
the music stays, over 900 albums (except Led rep's Coda)

what is Covid Protocol, you need to hide indoors?

oh nice MacBook, thought that was Tiger, which looks like Jaguar or panther, but with garage band.
 
Jack Neill said:
Pretty much. Some of my household came down with symptoms and I transitioned to remote work. The campus I work on is very serious about these things..
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my sister had that twice but without the horrible headaches which was the first symptom last decade.
both times she was better in 2 days.
depending were you live, you could be snowed in as well!
have fun with all this, which is very time consuming!
 
MBAir2010 said:
oh nice MacBook, thought that was Tiger, which looks like Jaguar or panther, but with garage band.
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The smooth white menu bar is a giveaway. Jaguar's and Panther's have pin-stripes, although Panther's are very subtle.

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I debated on going 10.6.8 for this project, but while I loved Snow, it doesn't hold the emotional weight in my heart that Tiger does.
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Seeing a Tiger desktop with the Aqua Blue wallpaper still makes me smile every time. Snowy, a bit less so.
 
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Amethyst1 said:
The smooth white menu bar is a giveaway. Jaguar's and Panther's have pin-stripes, although Panther's are very subtle.


Seeing a Tiger desktop with the Aqua Blue wallpaper still makes me smile every time. Snowy, a bit less so.
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i was trying to remember the style, but that was until 2009 for me, when the iMac perished-briefly
jaguar had a nice screen saver, maybe the best, until Mojave
 
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Seeing a Tiger desktop with the Aqua Blue wallpaper still makes me smile every time.
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tensixturtle said:
@Jack Neill that's very nice, I love Tiger too. Just curious, how did you get Photoshop on there? I didn't know if it can be activated anymore.
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I'll be interested in Jack's reply but there's always ways and means to activate software - or sometimes completely bypass any need for activation in the first place. Or so I've heard…
 
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Jack Neill said:
I had to do a new export from my Monterey Library because the Catalina export had HEICs in it so I re exported, now I can look at picture of BBQ from 5 years ago and listen to DMB in Tiger! This was such a pointless project.. Total cost 55$ for the new ssd. It was marginally exciting tho.

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My first Mac was an Intel CoreDuo MacMini running Intel Tiger. It came grossly under equipped with 512Mb of RAM, but I love the shading, colours, icons, and graphics from those systems. This is a super nice screenshot of that.
 
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What don't I do with early Intel Macs.

My daily driver is a MacBook 7,1, and it handles my writing, surfing, social media, etc tasks. It handles vocals recording for me in Garageband, and it occasionally plays The Sims 4 in Legacy mode. Sadly Steam has totally packed it in on this system so that's it for games, but I used to play Night In The Woods, Stardew Valley, and other low impact graphically games.

We have a Late 2009 iMac that just barely squeaks into the "Early Intel" era because it has a Core i5 750, technically just a bit outpacing the definition. It runs Emby Media Server and serves as a system we use for ripping and archiving DVDs using Handbrake and storing them on redundant NAS.

Both are running patched Catalina.
 
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I think this MB 2,1 Ive been working on came with 1gb when I bought it. I bought it from eBay 12 years ago. I gave 300 for it at the time. It came with 10.6 as I recall and I used it with 10.8 Hackerwayne style until I gave up and wanted something that could run Yosemite, so I bought the MB 5,2 right before 10.11 came out, I gave like 250 for that one. I'm surprised how well these white books have held up.
 
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Went back to Monterey 12.1 on the 2009 Mini. High Sierra wasn't as fast as I remembered it being and I thought maybe OCLP would be less likely to freeze if rEFInd was not present. OCLP did freeze once though, when I rebooted after installing OCLP to the SSD's EFI, so I guess the presence of rEFInd was not to blame. While I did have High Sierra on here, I did discover that Parallels will work on this Mac and I can indeed run Windows 10 on it. Windows 10 was incredibly slow though, but I guess in an emergency I could use it if I had to. I wiped the SSD completely and Monterey is now the only OS on here. I installed Ubuntu on my ideaPad and Ubuntu feels more "at home" on that computer than it did on here.

One interesting thing I noticed is that after installing the post-install patches, the built-in Wi-Fi immediately connected to my home's Wi-Fi. Before applying the post-install patches, I was connected to the internet using an ioGear Ethernet to Wireless adapter, which is set up to connect to my home's Wi-Fi and I still had that adapter connector after installing the post-install patches and rebooting. I guess the login information somehow transferred from the wireless adapter to the built-in Wi-Fi? I've never seen that happen before. I usually only use this adapter on machines with no built-in Wi-Fi at all or built-in Wi-Fi that I have used before, so the machine still remembers the network and password, but had stopped working.

I tried watching some TV episodes I bought on iTunes over the years and I had issues. The HD ones won't play at all because of my monitor not supporting HDCP and the SD ones only played the audio. My USB webcam also doesn't work, though even people running Monterey on supported hardware seem to be having problems with that.

My plan is to use the 2009 Mini for iPod/Music library management, so as long as that continues to work I will stick with Monterey. Any daily driver/mission critical/Windows or Linux exclusive task that can't be done on here I will have to do on the ideaPad.
 
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alex_free said:
It's done. The mac mini tower is complete:
Early 2005 Mac Mini G4 1.42 GHz G4
Early 2007 Mac mini 2.0 GHz C2D
Late 2009 Mac mini 2.53 GHz C2D

Just ordered the '09 mini, still need to max that out and the ppc one.
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The mini is one Mac that I have never owned any of. I think I would really like to try a 2018 i7 sometime. Enjoy the tower of Macintosh.
 
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Installed Tiger on my 2006 C2D MBP using recovery discs I bought off eBay. I had no idea you could hit CMD+Q to skip the registration info part of setup, so now I'm wondering if I accidentally registered either OS X or the Mac. I was connected to the internet and I didn't get asked whether I wanted to register now or later like it does when I install Tiger on PPC. On PPC, I never connect to the internet during setup and I always select Register Later in setup and then delete the Register Later icon in Finder afterwards. The Register Later icon showed up in Finder like it does when I install Tiger on PPC, so maybe the registration didn't go through? Both the Mac and Recovery disks are used so I didn't want to register them in case they were already registered to someone else.

Aside from that bit of frustrating foolishness, I had fun playing with the bundled apps like Comic Life and FileMaker Pro 8.5. Wish FileMaker was the full version instead of just a trial. Used Software Update to update to 10.4.11 and apply all relevant updates since there is no Tiger Updates DMG for Intel like there is for PPC. Tiger runs really well on here. I think I can see why people like running Tiger on this era of Mac.
 
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Been a silent reader but now i can't resist the urge to share, i've been theming/modifying the Lion to look like a modern macos on my first gen macbook air (many thanks to ppc leopard theming thread)

Apart from theming, i've used this Air for word processing, editing photos (with photoshop 2014) and watching any backup movies with it, just.. gotta be patient with it haha
 

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