It’s not bad, it get around 800ish over a TB1.And runs circles around the SATA-to-TB solution, right?
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Been messing around with my 2006 iMac again. Ever since I bought my 2012 Mini earlier this year, I haven't used the thing at all.
I did finally get the old A1016 bluetooth keyboard working in Monterey. I can only connect via blueutil and only by using the mac address. But after that it fully works and automatically connects every time
The speed difference is insane for only being 6 years apart. Times have definitely changed
I just wish Apple would make a 17 inch iMac again, but I know they never will. The form factor is awesome in tight spaces!
I did finally get the old A1016 bluetooth keyboard working in Monterey. I can only connect via blueutil and only by using the mac address. But after that it fully works and automatically connects every time
The speed difference is insane for only being 6 years apart. Times have definitely changed
I just wish Apple would make a 17 inch iMac again, but I know they never will. The form factor is awesome in tight spaces!
If the iMac has a HDD while the Mini has an SSD that explains a lot.
A Mac mini plus a portable 17.3” monitor is as good as it gets these days I suppose.
They both have an SSD, however the iMac has an earlier Sata standard. But that's not what's making the Mini so much faster. It's the Ivy Bridge Quad Core i7 compared to the measily C2D T7200. It having 16 gigs of ram also means it doesn't need to use swap memory. Plus while the Intel HD4000 gpu has never been a beast, it does have Metal support and is a lot better than the weak Ati graphics from the iMac
Sadly never as elegant as these little machines
Played around with transparent video players…
Found Helium which does exactly what I want. Not as cool as Chameleon Player, but the problem I ran in to with Chameleon Player is that it seems to only work on the screen that you have the menu bar attached to.
Both apps allow you to size the window as large as you want, but Chameleon Player attaches the window to a specific corner of the screen. What is cool though is that in both apps as soon as you make the windows transparent (there are shortcuts in both apps) anything underneath the window becomes immediately accessible (click through).
Dead Can Dance, live at Coachella (YouTube, streaming through Helium).
Found Helium which does exactly what I want. Not as cool as Chameleon Player, but the problem I ran in to with Chameleon Player is that it seems to only work on the screen that you have the menu bar attached to.
Both apps allow you to size the window as large as you want, but Chameleon Player attaches the window to a specific corner of the screen. What is cool though is that in both apps as soon as you make the windows transparent (there are shortcuts in both apps) anything underneath the window becomes immediately accessible (click through).
Dead Can Dance, live at Coachella (YouTube, streaming through Helium).
I don't know why but your avatar reminds me of V.I.N.CENT. from the Black Hole (Disney Sci-Fi movie of 1979).
V.I.N.CENT. was a hero so it's cool.
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Vital Information Necessary Centralised. Voiced by the great Roddy McDowall.
The Black Hole imho is an unfairly critiqued entry from Disney's foray into pretty dark and adult territory under their main commercial banner. It was savaged by critics who harshly judged the film in comparison to the recent blockbuster juggernaut Star Wars: nothing could've competed with that!
Nonetheless it was a daring attempt to break out of their traditional family friendly market and T.B.H. remains an interesting retelling of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea that's relocated to outer space. It features Nazi analogies, philosophical reflections on the concepts of heaven and hell, impressive special effects and a haunting film score by John Barry.
I first watched it around 40 years ago as a little kid courtesy of a 2nd, maybe even 3rd generation VHS copy that was provided by my dad and even with the picturesque mise-en-scene butchered by the pan & scan formatting that typified 80s home video releases, it was still a sci-fi marvel and a grand adventure to my young eyes: probably too young to have been watching such scary stuff.
The main title sticks in my head to this day.
Mojave on the 11 11” i5/4/512 was a tad slow so I decided to drop my Mavericks image on it. This little guy is flying. Setup a small 130GB iTunes library and doing a Monterey export of my photo library for iPhoto which is about 160gb. It’s a 108 in SA today, good day to stay in the AC and play with old Macs..
Installed Debian on a Mac mini 2009 with 8 GB and SSD. Still fast for general use.
2010 Mac Mini modestly upgraded as per my signature, running High Sierra and driving a 32-channel home studio mixing console via Logic Pro 10.4:
<<Watch Me Mix Episode 1: Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody>>
<<Watch Me Mix Episode 1: Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody>>
Your post motivated me to pull out my MacBook Air and comment on it as there's rather an unusual repair story involved.
It's a mid 2013 MBAir6,2/ i5/ 1.3GHz/3/125 so spec-wise nothing special. It was my sons, who complained that several of the keys had failed to respond. I gave him a few tips, such as shaking/tapping it whilst upside down, then using a can of compressed air over the keyboard etc, but no success. What was a death-blow to the Macbook was that major vowles, the 'i', the 'a' and the 'e' plus one other on the Canadian QWERTY keyboard were not responding, making any serious typing impossible. I believe he had one very costly quote for repair which would have required a replacement top casing. He deemed this non cost effective and I agreed as at the time it was over 7 years old.
On his next trip to Europe he brought it with him and gifted it to me, saying, "If anyone can repair this correctly Dad, I'm sure you can".
Initially I wasn't too confident, especially whether it was worth purchasing a top casing. Then one weekend I saw an on-line video which showed that it was possible to change out just the keyboard, something that Apple repair 'specialists' would never have performed due to the complexity/repair time involved.
In the past I've completely torn-down and restored several Clamshell iBook's and two 12" G4 PowerBooks, so after the 12" PBooks thought surely nothing can be trickier. Plus I enjoy a challenge.
Having purchased from Amazon a replacement keyboard plus a bag of screws for the princely sum of 27euros ($26) I set to work.
The logic board needed removal to gain access and tear-away the keyboard backlight cover, followed by the rather daunting task of removing 100+ small screws partially retaining the keyboard, then by using brute force to overcome fixed plastic rivets, tearing the keyboard away from the underside of the topcase - all this a veritable demolition process! Seeing the wreckage remaining I thought to myself, 'Surely this MacBook will never live again'. I noticed a number of rivet heads remaining on the topcase which had to be removed, either with a dremel or small screwdriver. I used the latter. The rest was relatively straightforward, a reversal process using the replacement keyboard & screws.
At this stage, prior to reinstalling the logic board I thought it made sense to pop off the heatsink and repaste the CPU, a simple task.
Finally all was completed, and I pressed the power button not knowing quite what to expect after the MacBook demolition. Et voila! It booted satisfactorily and all the keys were again functioning as expected.
I'd purchased a Qwerty keyboard as a replacement thinking my son may want the MacBook returned. He didn't, so I've added a silicon overlay AZERTY as I'm now more familiar with that system.
It's gives great satisfaction to be able to resurrect an Apple loptop and put it to good use, as otherwise this model would have surely gone to landfill. It's still running 10.12.6 Sierra - which I'm more than happy with, and happily web browsing with the latest FireFox.
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It is almost 12am now. Done for the day, 2011 MacBook Pro 13 inch.
My old 2007 iMac was starting to get long in the tooth with 10.7 and 10.11 on it, so i made a small Linux partition for a triple boot setup. Played around with a few distros and settled on Manjaro as everything worked out of the box (after installing all the updates) including the built in iSight.
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Installed Parallels 5 and Windows XP onto my 11-inch 2010 MacBook Air. Makes for a very fast and efficient XP gaming machine!
Starting to get some of my key machines ready to go for the coming school year, and that includes my Late 2008 15" MBP! The old girl here lives on a cart at the front of the room, mostly having screen sharing sessions to the other computers in the room so that I can control anything while up front teaching, and a few web pages. Occasionally a programming app or two. Nothing that doesn't run quite well on a 14-year-old C2D! She runs permanently in better battery mode to keep her on the 9400M, sparing the heat from the 9600M. All in all, a fantastic machine for its station that I look forward to using for many years to come
Your post motivated me to take a pic of your MacBook showing a picture of my MacBook. So here's a photo of my MacBook showing a photo of your MacBook showing a photo of my MacBook. I feel an Xibit meme vibe here..
My experience with the 11 11" going to 10.9.5 has been so good I want to do the same with this 5,2. Its running 11.6.7 really well but those waves of that blue wallpaper are calling my name..
Your post motivated me to take a pic of your MacBook showing a picture of my MacBook. So here's a photo of My MacBook showing etc.etc...
Now don't tell me you didn't expect this.
With ref to your post #1132, I was also particularly interested by your weather chart, and had to Google to see what the 'real' 😉temperature was , and noted that 108F = 42C. Yes that's warm! Here is SW France we're currently into our 2nd exceptional heat-wave this year. Yesterday and today was 38C, with 40C (104F) forecast for the weekend and even hotter next week. What makes it even more uncomfortable is the high humidity. In recent years the average temp here mid July is 28C, rarely getting higher than 30C (86F). Raging fires also these last 3 days around the Bordeaux region. So the weather truly has gone crazy!
I got the 09 out today and decided to start with a fresh 10.5.8. I think I ruined the G5 ram slots and was hoping for a leopard install to play with but I'll have to settle for this guy..
Who needs 3.2GB of printer drivers? The late 2000's were wild.
Who needs 3.2GB of printer drivers? The late 2000's were wild.
Their availability is great but I eventually came to realise that I don't need to install the whole lot on every machine I own - especially those that have smaller drives and probably wouldn't even need to be connected to one printer, let alone potentially hundreds.
I came to discover that most of the time the printer drivers the OS installed were for printers I would never buy and never own. Now I just skip it and install drivers directly from downloads/disks for the printers I DO have.
Apparently my printers over the years could be classified as uncommon.
Did a quick dirty SSD upgrade on a 2012 Mac Mini. 2TB of macOS sweetness inbound.. May not be an early Intel but it is 10 years old..
It was fun to work on something until my G5 parts come in. i5/16/2TB. I might keep Catalina on here for now, I have some Catalina photo libraries I want to work with and export some things.
It was fun to work on something until my G5 parts come in. i5/16/2TB. I might keep Catalina on here for now, I have some Catalina photo libraries I want to work with and export some things.
today i dual booted windows 7 with my macos mojave on my new mac pro and played some valorant. i got over 60 fps, which is very good considering i only have radeon hd 7750 1gb gpu and 4 core intel xeon. once i get my x5675 6 core in there, and hopefully i can score a rx 580 or some other fast gpu on ebay, it will be a beast.
also its funny to see "Apple Inc." and "MacPro5,1" in a windows system info screen
Man, the 2012 minis are such good little machines. At my tech bench I have my trusty rusty old 2012 quad set up running Monterey, and man it's still a pleasure to use! i7/16GB/500GB SSD makes for a sweet, smooth experience.
I wish this one was the i7, its just the i5. I agree tho they are great. I am probably going to go with Big Sur after I get my Catalina items knocked out.
In 2006, just after the release of the MacBook, I checked it out in a third-party store and they had one running XP right next to one running Tiger. That was weird, but it was the business.
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