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    During my systems check this holiday, my Powerbase has been found... wanting. No video out, either built-in or my Radeon. Sigh. Cuda reset and different power supply tested. Gonna reseat everything and then start removing stuff till it boots. I was wanting to play some Powermac-era stuff too.
    Powerbase
    Powerbase
    Well, I had to replace the motherboard with a spare one I had, gets reliable video now but its hard drive is funky now (aka doesnt work). I guess twenty years of service was good enough for that ole "Magnetic Data Tech" drive.
    Powerbase
    After a million years after asking about people experience with lag and such with them, I've bought a Wombat ADB-to-USB adapter to use on my old Macs. The cats have destroyed my original ADB peripherals. Still love them though.
    Powerbase
    Bot Invasion!! Whoop whoop whoop!
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    Snial
    Snial
    What's the point of all the bot stuff? Is it a denial-of-service or an AI trying to fool people into thinking this gibberish is real?
    Powerbase
    Powerbase
    I suppose as long as one person falls far it, out of the tens of thousands, then that's payday for spammer/scammers.
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    Snial
    Snial
    The ones we can see appear so bad they could be some kind of decade-old Zombie bots gone rogue.
    Powerbase
    I am pleased to inform everyone, I have bought a M4 Mini. I have joined the current generation.
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    LaPorta
    LaPorta
    Still not there yet! My newest is the 2020 iMac.
    Powerbase
    Powerbase
    The last "actual" Mac i had was a 2012 Macbook Pro I used for a good while, good machine.
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    Snial
    You've been more frugal than me. My list is:
    1. 2006 MacBook Core Duo in 2010, died in Jan 2014.
    2. 2012 Mac mini Core 2 Duo in 2014 - still works!
    3. 13" MBP 2018 in August 2018, sold on eBay in 2022.
    4. MacBook M2 in Spring 2022.
    Powerbase
    Hol up. How long has macOS done the window snapping thing? I just now noticed that windows will 'snap' to another window. On ventura.
    olePigeon
    olePigeon
    Monterey I think? You can also click-hold on the green button (hover in Sonoma or later) in a window and get the screen-split options.
    Powerbase
    Finally got around to hooking the Mac up to the headset. Latency isn't bad, but is noticeable compared to the 165Hz display. Cats might have damaged that display too (this is the third curved display I think they messed up)

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    Powerbase
    Happy to find out that there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with my 475, just the VGA adapter. Sad I'm stuck at 640x480 now, though.
    Powerbase
    Powerbase
    Woah, stabbed my replacement distributor on the 'ole Mustang and got it right on stock timing.
    Powerbase
    Anybody have any experience with those USB to ADB adapters about everywhere. Any latency to them?
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    Jenna16bit
    I've got the BOMW Wombat and haven't had trouble playing vertical 'shmups and the like.
    3lectr1cPPC
    3lectr1cPPC
    The Wombat has latency but it’s very minor, I only noticed it when playing a game on my PC where low latency is important. You’d never notice it on the day to day.
    Snial
    Snial
    I was part of the way into modifying PS/2 to ADB code for an AVR (or Arduino), using a proper interrupt-driven state machine. I think it would be possible to do a USB to ADB version using an ATMEGA32U4 (ie. Arduino nano) that way.
    Powerbase
    I don't know why, but I remember Basilisk as being cludgy and crash-prone. I used the hda images from my ZuluSCSI in my 475 and it runs quick and completely error-free. The Daystar QuadControl control panel doesn't even crash it (it does it on the web-based InfiniteMac emulator).
    Powerbase
    Used M-series Macs to me just seem to have a lot less value than used older gen Macs of yesteryear.

    I used to look forward to getter the cheaper and more available Powermacs when they were several years old. Older but serviceable.
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    Cory5412
    (the dynamic on the windows side of things is weird for sure because buying a used 8th gen i5 OEM system and upgrading it, even "modestly" like to 16/512, is likely to cost more than a brand new N100/16/512 micro PC from amazon, so the only "value" is if you know up front you need even more than that in some way.)
    Powerbase
    Powerbase
    I like them and I plan on getting one soon but I don't personally see value in getting a used one. I upgraded to SSDs when they first started coming out and I still DONT like the idea of a used and worn out SSD, thats non replaceable. Non-upgradeable ram, while not necessarily a deal breaker still sits badly with me.
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    Cory5412
    Ah totally fair - are there even a bunch yet? I imagine if so a lot of 'em are power users or developers who should never have bought an 8/16g config to begin with and those'll have been "ridden hard".
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