Recent content by macinbot

You're right to wonder. It's not wind tunnel fan noise or anything, but by modern standards it's noticeable. Thought about a possibly swapping in a Nactua fan, but I don't think I'm *that* invested in the build.

Along with my iMac 21.5" Late 2009 Snow Leopard install struggles, I took another go at my iMac 21.5" Mid-2011. Beyond its firmware lock issue, it threw a "?" folder (no system) shortly after I got it. So today I'll took the screen off and pulled the hard drive. Did a Mavericks install on an...

Bleh. Pentium 4 Mobile. One of the worst eras of windows laptops. Conversely, I've been rooting around for a Pentium M laptop (or a fancy desktop motherboard). Those Pentium M chips are basically a Pentium III turned super-saiyan.

Absolutely! And the 475 with its '040 may actually run Photoshop 3.0 without feeling like its being punished.

Heavenly Father and Moses Too! Hot Dang! That's a score! What's the gray and black laptop in one of the bins? LC III has a huge place in my computing heart. It was the second Mac I bought (first was Classic II -- both as used). Did so much graphic design work in Quark Xpress 4, Freehand 5.5...

Such an era. I've got a Nvidia 9800 GT "eco" version incoming that has something similar. Obviously heat pipes and liquid cooling were the future, but these massive copper fans have so much more style.

Yeah that fan mount is slick.

If it were me, I could cut you down to three and then bring you back up to five. Mac SE/30 — Your build is absolutely top tier compact Mac and a manifestation of the “how far can we take it?” camp of vintage computing. PowerBook Duo 280c — Sub notebook before sub notebooks were even a thing...

Decided to put together my new and current tech toys and their usage into a collected post to be updated as things emerge. Besides the recent (now not booting) 2011 21.5” iMac I got recently, I just lucked into a few PC finds that are pretty cool. First is this Core 2 Duo era MSI...

Heard. I get what you’re saying about the box and ephemera. It was more that I would be effectively paying him $20 to take back the (now non functioning) computer. And while the all the extras were nice, I bought this specific iMac so I could get back to working on art projects in Photoshop...

And in seller news, the guy I bought it from is now saying he'll "happily" take the machine back, and will refund half of what I paid, and keep the other half of the money for the privilege of allowing the return. lol.

I don't get it either. Initially, when Lion was installed (which is how I received it), it wouldn't let me select the Snow Leopard DVD from Startup Disk preference. But it did let me select Mavericks from USB as startup disk and proceeded to install Mavericks after rebooting. Just moments ago...

In other news, the seller got back to me, but went on the defensive saying that he never claimed the machine could upgrade beyond the installed OS X version and that when he sold it to me it was in working condition. So there’s that.

I’m all for this in concept, but it is currently above my skill grade. The jury is split on this. From anecdotal info, older Macs like this may get less scrutiny. Nearest Apple store is four hours out, so next time I go to the big city, I’ll see if they’ll let me slide on the info. See my...

Very nice! I have a big warm spot in my computing heart for Sun Micro machines. I did an internship at the UC Berkeley Earthquake Engineering and Research Center, and their simulation lab was full of Sun machines. I used to sit in their lab on my lunch break just to see them in action.