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Idly,what CPU SKU is everyone using for these? A thing that was true on the Mac Pro 5,1 and IME tends to remain true of the absolute tiptop SKU on any given platform is that it costs "arguably a lot" - is there some second-best or third-best people are looking at to still beat out the 2018 mini...

I alluded to this the other day in another thread but modern CPUs all have neural processing units, and graphical execution units that support the newest video codecs. Right now, most software can either avoid the neural processing units, or outright doesn't use them except for first-party...

Right now, AI is the reason 16GB is starting to become the minimum on new computer models. It's the baseline for Apple Intelligence and MS Copilot+, and the reason we're starting to see 16GB because the default base memory allocation on new computers. The Windows 11 thing is fairly shenanigans...

We're in such a wild time because it feels like Macs, even decade-old ones, are holding value way better than they did like 20 years ago. The Plateau makes things so wild, too. Like, any Mac Pro 6,1 with a quad, 16GB of RAM, and working GPUs is arguably "on-Plateau" in a way that 2012/14 Mac...

I'm sorry for the delay posting this up here but as a heads up the forum is not currently sending email. We do know about the error. I'll post updates as I have them.

I apologize so much for the delay cleaning up the spam that was previously here, huge thanks to everybody who sent in reports!

To add, just by way of general thought process: If you're using Mac OS 7.6.1 or newer, the 7200 should happily address volumes up to 2TB, and with 8.1 or newer it will even do so more efficiently. So there's no specific need to stick to slow or small disks, even if you want to be using older...

I've seen those for portable hard disks and some optical drives, are those approved for or capable of running with any othe devices? My immediate thought is that, especially with a desktop anyway, a powered USB 3-era hub would be an easier overall way to run higher powered speakers on an older...

I've never used these speakers (or, it occurs to me, any USB speakers that I can recall), but as far as I know, this "should" work. (narrator voice: he had forgotten the G4 cube shipped without built-in analog hardware, at this point in writing the post.) USB Audio is a fairly old standard and...

This looks super fun, what a novel idea and also that looks like a pretty great genuine speedup just on the RAM access alone. Great work!

Hey welcome in! It looks like you've managed to make some great progress with this machine, that's so great to see! Continuing on the "let's slow our roll a little bit" theme: It's real tough to read tone online so it's probably better to give people the benefit of the doubt and they presume...

does anything else show up if you run top or ps or whatever? My understanding is that the UNIX environment will use all the RAM you can give it and the default RAM for the Mac environment is perhaps a little low, or maybe dependent on what's available the first time you install it, and maybe...

Maybe not the most useful ever, but: idly: I ran A/UX 3.1 (the AWGS95 build, even) on a IIsi back in the day and it was "fine" - If you have enough RAM for it and some patience and you want to run A/UX 3.x, I don't see why not. (It's not like you need to make money on whatever it is you're...

Had a chance to read through a few times. Thank you to everybody who was able to provide useful, good information to this thread without attacking anybody. There's a line between a criticism that's still phrased reasonably (imagine your team at work is working on a problem and someone suggests...

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In terms of SCSI replacers: In my experience, SCSI2SD v5 is Good Enough, basically for anything most people would want to do on any 68k Mac, or any compatible hardware of a similar era. (~1994 and older) especially in microcomputers and single-user systems. I've got a V5 in my Quadra 840av and...