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What have you done with an early Intel recently?

TheShortTimer said:
All the best for him. :)
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He figured it all out.

He started his second year with the W10 laptop he got from highschool, but was told it was insufficient to use for what was ahead (multiple VMs and such). So he bought a refurb off Amazon. One of the ram sticks failed about six months in, and then the SSD went. Fortunately it was not the motherboard. Both the ram and SSD got replaced this week and now he's working on getting W10 reinstalled.

He didn't have a backup, but fortunately this laptop was not the one he keeps personal stuff on. I pointed out that our home network had several large drives available and everything has been networked for years now. :rolleyes:

But this is how I found out about the NAS. I was trying to have him connect to it.
 
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Yeah, unless you're connected to something with SMBv1 when doing an upgrade (say from 7 to 10), it won't enable it by default. Learned that the hard way at a prior job when I re-imaged someone's machine (it was always odd even under 7) and it wouldn't connect to the older network share.
 
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What have you done with an early Intel recently?​


Well I "think" (?) that my Mac Pro 3,1 counts as an early Intel Mac (maybe??).

So, running Mac OS Mojave (using DosDude patcher) with an Nvidia K2000 video card and an internal Blu-Ray drive in drive bay #2 I've been ripping my Blu-ray Discs using the program "MakeMKV" from here...

MakeMKV - Make MKV from Blu-ray and DVD

MakeMKV - software to convert blu-ray and dvd to mkv
www.makemkv.com

...and then converting the resulting MKV file to 1080p MP4 files using this custom high quality preset in Hand Brake from the instructions here...

www.thewebernets.com

Easiest Best Optimal settings for Handbrake 1080p Blu Ray Video Conversion on Mac, Windows and Linux – UPDATED – MARCH 2023

A simple easy guide on how to Convert BluRay video in Handbrake without having to know or understand all of the settings.
www.thewebernets.com www.thewebernets.com

The end result is that I'm able to free my Blu-ray movies from the disc and can then play them anywhere!

This might be old news for everyone else here but it's pretty exciting for me!!!

:)
 
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m1maverick said:
Which Blu-ray drive?
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It's a Hitachi BH40N Blu-ray 6x Burner and 16x DVD+-RW DL SATA

I was able to connect it in the 2008 Mac Pro using this handy little instruction guide I found online since it's a SATA drive but the connectors in the Mac Pro for the optical drives are IDE...

SolderFix - Microsoldering Repair Service

Expert microsoldering repair work on electronic equipment and components. Solder Fix offers component level repair on a wide range of computer and electronic equipment.
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Was really easy and I was able to scrounge up all the necessary cables so it didn't cost me anything to do this but a little time!

I found the Blu-ray drive in an old Windows tower computer that had been chucked into a computer recycle bin and thought it would be great to add Blu-ray to my Mac Pro so I rescued it from the trash. Works perfectly!

It's kind of fun watching "Handbrake 1.6.1" completely saturate all 8 cores of my 2 x 3.2 Quad core Xeon in "Activity Monitor" when it's transcoding to MP4...it's not messing around!

:)
 
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DouglasCarroll said:
It's a Hitachi BH40N Blu-ray 6x Burner and 16x DVD+-RW DL SATA

I was able to connect it in the 2008 Mac Pro using this handy little instruction guide I found online since it's a SATA drive but the connectors in the Mac Pro for the optical drives are IDE...
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Thank you for this information. I'd be putting this into a 2010 Mac Pro so PATA to SATA would not be necessary.

DouglasCarroll said:
It's kind of fun watching "Handbrake 1.6.1" completely saturate all 8 cores of my 2 x 3.2 Quad core Xeon in "Activity Monitor" when it's transcoding to MP4...it's not messing around!

:)
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Looks as if you got the top end processor configuration for this model. Did you upgrade it or is it original? I have the 2 x 2.8GHz version.
 
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DouglasCarroll said:
This is the original processor that shipped with the machine. The only thing I added was a little more memory, but that’s about it.
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It's rare to see a factory configured high end system. Most were lower to mid level configurations upgraded over time. To have an original is cool.
 
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I decided to, for a laugh see if I could copy Mac OS 10.5.8 in Target Disk mode from my Powerbook G4 17" to my Macbook Pro 17" and it worked!

Not only that, but PPCMC works on it too! The current version. Happy days!

It runs so smooth with the 8GB of RAM as well…

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I guess my 2010 Mac Pro counts as early Intel, if eyoungren's 2009->2010 one does.

I have been playing A Plague Tale: Requiem on it and I'm once again impressed by its performance. The game states a Radeon RX 590 as minimum requirement ... I have the 580 and thought I'll just give it a try, I can live with it if it stutters a little. By default I got low settings but at 1440p and everything was super smooth. So I tried high settings and it's still smooth. Not bad for a 13 years old system playing a late 2022 game like that.

On the other hand I learned that even simple word processing can be demanding if developers do not care for resources. My wife happily uses a 2011 Mac Mini i5 with OCLP Montery. She doesn't do anything demanding on that machine and it works just fine. Recently she started writing a book on it and started in Pages. She wrote 2 chapters and now everything srolling or selecting and copying lags like ****. Export the thing to LibreOffice and everything's smooth. She could do that on a 90ies machine, in fact she wrote her 100+ pages master thesis on my iBook G3 in 2003. But Pages has become so demanding that you can not write something unless you have current hardware ... :rolleyes:
 
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Amethyst1 said:
slate.com

George R.R. Martin Uses Super Old Word Processing Software, and It's Awesome

George R.R. Martin knows what's up. He's been writing science fiction and fantasy for decades, so he's not going to waste time trying to get Microsoft...
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Somehow you always come up with the best links!

I just sent it to my wife for inspiration. We are both huge Game of Thrones fans and even had our wedding in Malta at the spot where the wedding of Daenerys and Khal Drogo was filmed. It was beautiful, these Hollywood location scouts know their job.
 
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VirtuallyInsane said:
I decided to, for a laugh see if I could copy Mac OS 10.5.8 in Target Disk mode from my Powerbook G4 17" to my Macbook Pro 17" and it worked!

Not only that, but PPCMC works on it too! The current version. Happy days!

It runs so smooth with the 8GB of RAM as well…

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The commercially available Leopard disc is a universal installer. It works on your MBP because both Intel/PowerPC system files were installed - not just one or the other. This is how you can slim down apps and system code on PowerPC Macs, by removing the Intel code.

When I first got my 2006 MBP, this is how I got Snow Leopard on it while keeping all my original files. I cloned my PowerPC backup to that MBP and then upgraded to SL.
 
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eyoungren said:
The commercially available Leopard disc is a universal installer. It works on your MBP because both Intel/PowerPC system files were installed - not just one or the other. This is how you can slim down apps and system code on PowerPC Macs, by removing the Intel code.

When I first got my 2006 MBP, this is how I got Snow Leopard on it while keeping all my original files. I cloned my PowerPC backup to that MBP and then upgraded to SL.
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Ah, yes. I figured that maybe they were universal, but I wasn't sure, but now I know. I am glad, and it's cool that you can keep the PPC files and code and transfer them across universally. I wanted to install 10.5.8. on the Beast because 10.5.7 was the original OS, and this is the closest I can get to it. It also has SL, Mavericks, and El C(r)apitan loaded. I upgraded to 8GB RAM and 500GB SSD (the one from my other MBP that decided to kick the bucket).
 
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Amethyst1 said:
If the machine is connected to a network, try to disconnect, complete setup, disable IPv6, then reconnect.
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Finally had some time to get back to playing around with this machine. I’ve tried both Mac OS X Server 10.6, and 10.5, but can’t get through the setup on either OS. I can’t tell what’s going on with the install for Server 10.6 - I don’t get the option to choose my region and progress through to enter the serial number like I do with Server 10.5. Server 10.5 installs, and allows me to progress through to enter a serial number, but I dont have one for that OS.

Is there anywhere to safely obtain either a 10.4, 10.5, or 10.6 .iso so I can try and make a bootable USB from it?
 
eyoungren said:
The commercially available Leopard disc is a universal installer. It works on your MBP because both Intel/PowerPC system files were installed - not just one or the other. This is how you can slim down apps and system code on PowerPC Macs, by removing the Intel code.

When I first got my 2006 MBP, this is how I got Snow Leopard on it while keeping all my original files. I cloned my PowerPC backup to that MBP and then upgraded to SL.
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Those were the days when you could just copy the OS from one Mac to another. I remember cloning 10.5 from a 1,67 ghz PowerBook G4 to a 450 mhz G4 PowerMac and have the later happily boot with an officially unspported OS afterwards.
 
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chaosbunny said:
Those were the days when you could just copy the OS from one Mac to another. I remember cloning 10.5 from a 1,67 ghz PowerBook G4 to a 450 mhz G4 PowerMac and have the later happily boot with an officially unspported OS afterwards.
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That's exactly how my first Mac was set up via Target FireWire Disk Mode with a triple-boot set up arranged for me so that I could select OS 9, Tiger or Panther. A family member connected their Mac Cube to my Ethernet Gigabit G4 and took care of everything for me. I was mystified by the whole process at the time but now it's second nature to me. :)
 
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chaosbunny said:
Those were the days when you could just copy the OS from one Mac to another. I remember cloning 10.5 from a 1,67 ghz PowerBook G4 to a 450 mhz G4 PowerMac and have the later happily boot with an officially unspported OS afterwards.
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Well…if by copy you mean 'clone' then yeah. Almost every Mac I have is a cloned copy of a personal/work install that happened some time in 2004. They are all different just in the sense that I use it on each Mac differently. But everything is set up the way I use things on every Mac because stuff got cloned at some point.
 
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TheShortTimer said:
That's exactly how my first Mac was set up via Target FireWire Disk Mode with a triple-boot set up arranged for me so that I could select OS 9, Tiger or Panther. A family member connected their Mac Cube to my Ethernet Gigabit G4 and took care of everything for me. I was mystified by the whole process at the time but now it's second nature to me. :)
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I got a model specific Panther copy on to two G4s at my old job. ;)

All you need to do is pull hard drives, slip them in a case and then pretend you're reinstalling Panther to a 1.8Ghz PowerMac G5. Then you put them back.

Voila! No more OS9! :D
 
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