Recent content by CC_333

I hope I'm wrong, but I was sort of under the impression that he died at one point. c

Maybe they do? They are hollow.... Yes! c

Huh? Last I checked, my 12" PBG4/1.3 was perfectly content on air cooling. The only way I can imagine a PBG4 (of any size/speed) would need water cooling is if it were overclocked to 10 GHz or something extreme like that, and even then, some varieties of G4 are known to run reliably at speeds...

It's not a Mac – although it is Intel-based – but I had a computer die on me recently. As you all probably know by now, I like radio, and I have set up a small (and legal!) unlicensed AM (medium wave for those in the UK and Europe), and I decided to use a Dell OptiPlex for the task. I started...

Good thing you got the RAM and SSD when they were somewhat affordable. It'd cost you probably 3x more now. c

Ooo! Are you aiming for a somewhat Star Trek LCARS(?)-esque look? Regardless, it has a very mid-2000s feel about it, which I like. I'm being lazy, but I have a stack of plastic MacBooks in the garage that might be suitable for something. I have the MagSafe 1 charger from my 2012 MacBook Pro...

Looks pretty good! If the battery is >10 years old (as most of them are nowadays), it is most likely dead. I'd love to be wrong, of course! Hmm. Windows 10? Linux?? c

If 2009-2010 MacBooks are OK, I have one that might be of use. They can also officially run up to at least El Capitan I think, so actual semi-modern computing is vaguely possible with them. c

Or if you use it awhile, it'll happen for you! These things are really hard to keep clean when used regularly. The glossy plastics also get scratched up super easily, so an example that gets any use at all ends up really ugly really fast unless it lives on a desk and never gets touched. c

With needlessly expensive tools (such as this ultra fancy putty knife). I remember I used an old, rusty (and free!) putty knife from the garage to great effect when I was opening up mine (it scratched up the inner edges a bit, but who's ever going to notice or care?) c

Ooo! Maybe I could use this as an excuse to find all the bits of my old one (bought new in early 2007) and reassemble it back to a working form! Or maybe I could simply find another one like it that's mostly whole already, fix whatever's broken, and clean it up. I had a black one for a while...

I dropped my old clamshell iBook more times that I could count, and I even left it outside in the rain once. It kept working. The only things that finally did it in were a failed DC-in jack and my incompetence at trying to repair it (I broke the trackpad cable, and mangled the top case's inner...

This reminds me that I have one (my first, bought for Christmas of '06) in pieces because the nylon screws for the heatsink broke. I sort of remember something being wrong with that interconnect cable and the cooling fan, too. Before that happened, I had it set up pretty well; back around...

True, but I don't have any Intel Xserves. Yet. c

I use my old 3,1 as my main DAW (or, rather, I would be if I ever get around to setting it up), but I'm thinking of maybe using my 4,1 (with 5,1 firmware) instead, since it's basically the same, but faster (it runs all the same software and my Pro Tools DSP cards work in it the same). I...