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    Will RPi4 run OS9 in emulation

    For comparison, an Intel i5-2300 and i5-4570 both bench about as fast as a G3@300 in integer performance, and about half that in floating point performance. It's overall very stable and for most baseline functions, works well. If there's been an ARM native build of QEMU-PPC (or whatever...
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    Just bulk-activated every user that wasn't already banned or spam-cleaned, from the start of the...

    Just bulk-activated every user that wasn't already banned or spam-cleaned, from the start of the error to today. Email still isn't sending, but new people should be able to sign in.
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    2024-11-10+ Forum not sending email

    The forum is still unable to send email, but I have just cleared the spam sign-up queue and, if I did everything correctly, allow newly registered users (since ~October) to sign in.
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    Not yet, unfortunately. I remain trying every single week to get some time set aside for this...

    Not yet, unfortunately. I remain trying every single week to get some time set aside for this. It requires both wthww and I.
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    @KGLlewellyn please feel free to DM me but as of right now I show your user status as valid...

    @KGLlewellyn please feel free to DM me but as of right now I show your user status as valid. (And not awaiting confirmation) so you should be able to sign back in on whatever other devices/browsers/sessions. Perhaps try in an incognito session on desktop to avoid disturbing anything?
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    I know and I'm sorry. I'm still trying basically every week to try to get some time on this. I...

    I know and I'm sorry. I'm still trying basically every week to try to get some time on this. I am still regularly processing the spam filter's registration queue so with any luck there won't be a big surge of them when email is fixed.
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    A trash can.... Mac :)

    Idly,what CPU SKU is everyone using for these? A thing that was true on the Mac Pro 5,1 and IME tends to remain true of the absolute tiptop SKU on any given platform is that it costs "arguably a lot" - is there some second-best or third-best people are looking at to still beat out the 2018 mini...
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    A trash can.... Mac :)

    I alluded to this the other day in another thread but modern CPUs all have neural processing units, and graphical execution units that support the newest video codecs. Right now, most software can either avoid the neural processing units, or outright doesn't use them except for first-party...
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    A trash can.... Mac :)

    Right now, AI is the reason 16GB is starting to become the minimum on new computer models. It's the baseline for Apple Intelligence and MS Copilot+, and the reason we're starting to see 16GB because the default base memory allocation on new computers. The Windows 11 thing is fairly shenanigans...
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    A trash can.... Mac :)

    We're in such a wild time because it feels like Macs, even decade-old ones, are holding value way better than they did like 20 years ago. The Plateau makes things so wild, too. Like, any Mac Pro 6,1 with a quad, 16GB of RAM, and working GPUs is arguably "on-Plateau" in a way that 2012/14 Mac...
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    2024-11-10+ Forum not sending email

    I'm sorry for the delay posting this up here but as a heads up the forum is not currently sending email. We do know about the error. I'll post updates as I have them.
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    My IIsi is not booting

    I apologize so much for the delay cleaning up the spam that was previously here, huge thanks to everybody who sent in reports!
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    Genuinely wild to see a third party step into this space, but, nice to see it can be and...

    Genuinely wild to see a third party step into this space, but, nice to see it can be and potentially is being done
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    Weirdly, there's precedent for upgrades on the Studio because the previous Intel Mac Pro used...

    Weirdly, there's precedent for upgrades on the Studio because the previous Intel Mac Pro used that same process and very, very similar modules. Weirdly2, the Apple Silicon Mac Pro, which is AFAIK basically the same computer as the Studio: https://support.apple.com/en-us/101836
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    Looks like it's just "the existing SSDs" connectorized so unsure how Apple would block this...

    Looks like it's just "the existing SSDs" connectorized so unsure how Apple would block this. Right of First Sale (IIRC) in the US gives consumers the right to modify whatever they buy in whatever way they want and even resell them. Check out the Modbook from the mid-2000s as another example of...
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    Unfortunately no. Mechanical hard disks are pretty much a consumable. They're sealed and aren't...

    Unfortunately no. Mechanical hard disks are pretty much a consumable. They're sealed and aren't designed to be maintainable/repairable outside of specialized facilities like cleanrooms. Some people are preemptively replacing their HDDs though so maybe there's some still-working ones available...
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    PM7200: these hard drives suitable?

    To add, just by way of general thought process: If you're using Mac OS 7.6.1 or newer, the 7200 should happily address volumes up to 2TB, and with 8.1 or newer it will even do so more efficiently. So there's no specific need to stick to slow or small disks, even if you want to be using older...
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    USB Speakers in OS 9

    I've seen those for portable hard disks and some optical drives, are those approved for or capable of running with any othe devices? My immediate thought is that, especially with a desktop anyway, a powered USB 3-era hub would be an easier overall way to run higher powered speakers on an older...
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    USB Speakers in OS 9

    I've never used these speakers (or, it occurs to me, any USB speakers that I can recall), but as far as I know, this "should" work. (narrator voice: he had forgotten the G4 cube shipped without built-in analog hardware, at this point in writing the post.) USB Audio is a fairly old standard and...
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    Synchr030/S 256MB SDRAM Accelerator for the SE/30

    This looks super fun, what a novel idea and also that looks like a pretty great genuine speedup just on the RAM access alone. Great work!
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