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Today I picked up a 22” Dell IPS monitor for $8. I thought it had an HDMI connector, but it turned out to be a DisplayPort connector. It also had a HDMI to VGA converter attached to the VGA cable than came with the monitor. It works great with my new to me Mac Mini. It was once a visitor...

One thing that annoys me is the plastic cover on the bottom of the unit. It has no grip on the table surface whatsoever. I may have to stick some rubber feet on the cover so the Mac will stay put.

It’s a 2012 model. Currently it has 12GB memory from my Dell Latitude until the 16GB I ordered arrives. The 4GB it came with wasn’t enough. After using SSD-equipped computers for so long, a spinning rust drive is extremely slow. It’s currently running MacOS Catalina.

I finally got the recovery partition to load by connecting an Apple keyboard to it. It has Mountain Lion (10.8) on it. I’m wiping it and reinstalling 10.8 on it, then I’ll upgrade it to something more recent. It’s a 1024 X 600 panel, but will scale down 1920 X 1080 to fit. Kind of hard to...

Bought a Mac Mini off eBay, it arrived a few days early. It was advertised as having no operating system, but found out it still had MacOS installed - but all user accounts are password protected. Comparing against my Ryzen mini PC for comparison. I bought 16GB of memory for it and a 480GB...

The display is so much easier to read than the TI-92.

The Nspire didn't work after reassembly. I found another one on Ebay and it arrived today. It's a School Edition TouchPad model. Turning the second Nspire on I found It was in Press-to-Test mode. A little research later and I found how to remove it using a computer.

The TI-Nspire arrived today. I bought it "parts or not working" and so far has lived up to that label. It appeared to have minor battery corrosion in the past based on residue remaining on the calculator. I took it apart, removed the battery terminals and let them soak in vinegar. I also...

Later iBook G4 models came with 10.4 - primarily the 1.33ghz and 1.42ghz models from mid-2005. I have a 12" 1.33ghz model and it won't boot from 10.3.

I thought the keyboard on the TI-92 would help with programming on it. My TI-GraphLink cable arrived yesterday and I transferred a few TI-Basic programs to the TI-92 and opened one if them for editing.  Programming on it would be tolerable but I'm spoiled by using 2 or 3 monitors on my PC.  :)...

Found and ordered an inexpensive TI-Nspire Touchpad. With this one I can run vMac on it (32MB storage vs. 256KB on the TI-92).

If it were eithera TI-92 II or a TI-92 Plus it might be possible. The TI-92 doesn't have enough storage space to handle emulating a Mac. Doing some research i found there is a Mac emulator for the TI-Nspire.

I bought a TI-86 graphing calculator a few weeks ago off of eBay. The screen had some occasional glitches so I searched for a replacement screen. While I didn't find a screen I found a TI-92 graphing calculator for a little over $20. The TI-92 has a 68000 processor running at 10 Mhz and 256 KB...

This was initially my wife's phone for a couple of years.   When her mother's iPhone 4s was having issues we upgraded her to an iPhone 8 Plus. She loved the speed of it compared to the iPhone 4s but it was too big for her to comfortably handle. My wife swapped phones with her and they were...

Yesterday morning I used the MacBook for a while and found out that the fan wasn't spinning after it slowed down to a crawl. Took it apart again last night and found that the fan housing was pushed in on one side, causing the fan to not spin at all. After fixing the fan and putting the MacBook...

Either it was really resilient or I just don't do a good job of vacuuming. :) After removing the keyboard/wrist rest I found the cause of the fan noise - the small piece of foam that covers the two temperature sensor connectors had moved and decided to rest in top of the fan enclosure. After...

I was removing the battery from the MacBook after first bringing the laptop home and a screw fell out from that area.  Not knowing where it came from I wrapped it in blue painter's tape and attached it to the lid. Shortly before swapping bottoms another screw appeared and I taped that one to the...

I bought a replacement bottom case and installed it.  Only took 3+ hours.  Even with making notes as to where every screw went I still had two left... After getting everything back together I powered it on and heard the fan spinning and rubbing against its enclosure.   :O  I get to take it...

Thanks for the heads up! I have an iBook G4 and a Lombard for PowerPC applications, but to be honest it's been years since I have used one of my Macs. The 2 x 2Gb DIMMs from the old Dell laptop worked great.  Currently Lion is installed along with Windows 7 Home Premium via BootCamp.  I'm...

The power supply works and the laptop battery and Mac OS 10.6 is installed. It does run a bit warm though. Given that it still has the original memory and hard drive it probably needs to be taken apart and cleaned out.