I did say no more...

[Hotdog Zanzibar]

LOL that is fallen.   he is a member.!!    

one machine that impressed me,  and i have never been impressed that easily...

was a Dual 800mhz quicksilver...

This thing would install tiger in like 9 minutes.   most machines were double or triple that time.

Everything was lightning fast, HD, Optical Drive, I/O, CPU,  it was a whole package.

Awesome... I enjoy his videos, especially when he gets a little salty and starts cussing

The Dual 800 Quicksilver DOES install Tiger lightning fast! I've also noticed that. One of these days I'm going to use LeopardAssist to put Leopard on there. It's always stuck in my craw that the 867 will run Leopard when the Dual 800 will not, even though it outperforms the 867 in many ways. 

Apple had a thing for dual-CPU machines, even though the OS and most apps really could never take advantage of that. Photoshop is one exception. Photoshop CS4 is amazingly quick, even by today's standards, for a 12 year-old machine. I'd love to find a cheap IDE SSD for it one of these days. 

I upgraded it with a full 1.5gb RAM. The stock 80gb drive loads OS 9.2.2 and a 200gb drive loads Tiger. I still do all my QuickBooks Pro work on it. On the OS 9 drive, I've got a slew of apps on there, like Final Cut Pro, early Adobe InDesign, Macromedia Director, Kai's PowerTools, Premiere, Photoshop... a whole suite of multimedia & design apps that would've cost THOUSANDS back in the day.

 

[uniserver]

Yeah he does get salty doesn't he ha ha

You should get like three Superspeed cf cards and CompactFlash to IDE adapters and raid five em.

 

[Brett B.]

In other news, I felt I had to pass on the first 68k that I have seen for sale in ages.  I actually saw it at a yard sale from the highway, no kidding.  It was a Performa 577, and it was $200.  [xx(] ]'>

Nor did I purchase the PowerMac 7500 sitting next to it that was only $100.

 

[Unknown_K]

The days of cheap/free vintage 68k/ppc machines are over.   

 

[CC_333]

Almost!

I got my Performa 637 MME (Money Magazine Edition) for $80. You might say it was expensive, but the thing is literally in pristine condition, with minimal yellowing and virtually no dust/grime inside (it must've spent most of its life packed away in a box in someone's closet).

The deals are still out there, one just has to know where to look.

c

 

[Brett B.]

I don't think the guy even knew what he had, it just had an Apple logo so it must be worth a bunch? Who knows. I'm done acquiring more if they're not going to be cheap.

 

[Hotdog Zanzibar]

You'll still find cheap deals. 

Whenever I find someone selling a Performa (insert # here), or one of the dime-a-dozen compacts on craigslist, and they want hundreds of semolians for them, I ALWAYS send them a note saying "as a collector, I could literally put a message on one forum and have one of these for $20-$30 by the end of the day. I know you're hoping that somebody will pay you $200 for that thing, but 1) collectors like me are wise to it, and 2) anybody who's not a collector won't have that kind of money to throw away."