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The Official: 'What Mac Do You Own' Thread

aphex

aphex

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Now that we have our own home to congregate, just curious what Mac hardware you work with....

I am on my second Mac Mini... First was a G4, and when the Intel chips came out, promptly sold it and upgraded...

Specs:
Mac Mini (2nd Gen)
1.66ghz Core Duo
2gb Ram
160gb HD
Superdrive
Bluetooth
Wifi

Connected to my Dell 2007fpw 20" LCD
 
I own a 2nd Gen Mini too.

1.66Ghz Core Duo
2GB RAM
200GB HD
Combo Drive
Bluetooth
WiFi

and a 2Ghz MacBook Pro upgraded to 2GB RAM.


 
The ones I use:

1. 12" PoweBook G4
-1.5GHz
-160GB 5400RPM drive (recent upgrade)
-1.5GB RAM

2. 15" MacBook Pro
-2.16GHz C2D
-2GB RAM
-160GB 5400RPM drive
-128MB vRAM

3. 15" MacBook Pro (LED)
-2.2GHz C2D
-160GB 5400RPM drive
-2GB Ram
-128MB vRAM

I'm selling #2, it should be gone very soon... the upgrade to #3 will only cost me about $30.

I have a bunch of older macs too, but I don't actively use them, I'll update this post later.
 
Currently I own one of the old 17" LCD 800Mhz G4 iMacs, which is now over at my parents house doing basic internet/email duty. It's a great machine for this purpose, since it requires virtually no technical support from me. I also have a really old 333Mhz G3 iMac that's in mothballs.

I'm debating getting a newer Mac of some kind. Not sure if I will, and if I do, I'm not sure which one yet.
 
My current Macs:

15" Powerbook G4 (aluminum)
1.5GHz PPC G4
1.5GB RAM
80GB 5400 RPM hard disk
128MB Radeon 9700

15" Macbook Pro
2.33GHz Core 2 Duo
2GB RAM
120GB 5400 RPM hard disk
256MB Radeon X1600
 
I own a 15'' Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro (2nd Revision, October 2006).
2.33 C2D
2 GB RAM
120 GB HD
256 Radeon X1600 (this particular MBP's big weakness)

I love my MBP, and despite the recent upgrade, I'm happy I purchased it when I did just over two months ago as a refurb. It was obviously a new machine, and I got it for $500 less than the normal retail price.
 
Intel 20" iMac, 2.16ghz C2D
2GB RAM
250GB
256MB X1600

Couldn't quite afford a Mac pro, too far a leap. Stupid apple and no decent non-integrated midrange.
 
Wife - iMac Intel
2ghz CD
2gb ram
250gb hdd
256mb x1600

Me - upcoming Santa Rosa MBP
2.4ghz SR
4gb ram
160gb 7200rpm hdd
256mb nvidia card

I was waiting until WWDC to see if they'd release an ultraportable. Guess not. Time to sell my PC stuff and get the new MacBook Pro! 😀
 
OS 9 is very long since gone. 10.4 is the last version of OS X to include Classic (which is what OS 9 is called within the context of OS X), and Leopard won't have it at all. You also need to have a PowerPC Mac to run Classic, as it doesn't run on Intel Macs.

I'm pretty sure you couldn't have had a laptop that had a G4 processor, OS X and OS 9, because the G4 didn't reach the iBook until May of 2003. OS 9 was retired well before that (in 2002).
 
Originally posted by: luminousmidnight
OS 9 is very long since gone. 10.4 is the last version of OS X to include Classic (which is what OS 9 is called within the context of OS X), and Leopard won't have it at all. You also need to have a PowerPC Mac to run Classic, as it doesn't run on Intel Macs.

I'm pretty sure you couldn't have had a laptop that had a G4 processor, OS X and OS 9, because the G4 didn't reach the iBook until May of 2003. OS 9 was retired well before that (in 2002).
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Listen to what I am telling you.

I could click on the cute little apple icon in the upper left portion of the screen and tell the system to REBOOT into OS 9.

I played in OS 9.
It was grey and ugly and couldnt do much at all. I can totally understand why apple enthusiasts were excited about OS X.

AND, you had to shut down the system to reboot into OS X. There was no quick swap mode. It was a full installation of another Operating System. Heck even the nifty little initial start screen I got during the first boot of the laptop told me the thing had a full install of OS 9 in addition to the compatibility mode found in OS X.
 
Originally posted by: shortylickens
Originally posted by: luminousmidnight
OS 9 is very long since gone. 10.4 is the last version of OS X to include Classic (which is what OS 9 is called within the context of OS X), and Leopard won't have it at all. You also need to have a PowerPC Mac to run Classic, as it doesn't run on Intel Macs.

I'm pretty sure you couldn't have had a laptop that had a G4 processor, OS X and OS 9, because the G4 didn't reach the iBook until May of 2003. OS 9 was retired well before that (in 2002).
Click to expand...
Listen to what I am telling you.

I could click on the cute little apple icon in the upper left portion of the screen and tell the system to REBOOT into OS 9.

I played in OS 9.
It was grey and ugly and couldnt do much at all. I can totally understand why apple enthusiasts were excited about OS X.

AND, you had to shut down the system to reboot into OS X. There was no quick swap mode. It was a full installation of another Operating System. Heck even the nifty little initial start screen I got during the first boot of the laptop told me the thing had a full install of OS 9 in addition to the compatibility mode found in OS X.
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Oh, I'm sure all of what you're saying there is true. It was just on a G3 iBook, no doubt, rather than a G4.
 
Originally posted by: luminousmidnight
Originally posted by: shortylickens
Originally posted by: luminousmidnight
OS 9 is very long since gone. 10.4 is the last version of OS X to include Classic (which is what OS 9 is called within the context of OS X), and Leopard won't have it at all. You also need to have a PowerPC Mac to run Classic, as it doesn't run on Intel Macs.

I'm pretty sure you couldn't have had a laptop that had a G4 processor, OS X and OS 9, because the G4 didn't reach the iBook until May of 2003. OS 9 was retired well before that (in 2002).
Click to expand...
Listen to what I am telling you.

I could click on the cute little apple icon in the upper left portion of the screen and tell the system to REBOOT into OS 9.

I played in OS 9.
It was grey and ugly and couldnt do much at all. I can totally understand why apple enthusiasts were excited about OS X.

AND, you had to shut down the system to reboot into OS X. There was no quick swap mode. It was a full installation of another Operating System. Heck even the nifty little initial start screen I got during the first boot of the laptop told me the thing had a full install of OS 9 in addition to the compatibility mode found in OS X.
Click to expand...

Oh, I'm sure all of what you're saying there is true. It was just on a G3 iBook, no doubt, rather than a G4.
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Sir,

WELCOME to anandtech!

Rather than engage an asshole like me in a pointless pissing contest you simply clarified your position.
You are already cooler than 99% of the people here.

Not many people believed me when I said it only had 256MB of RAM either. But it did.
As you are kind and wise I will make the concession that it is possible I dont know the difference between the numbers 3 and 4 (unlikely, but possible) and perhaps the neat little iBook I purchased from apple.com was, in fact, a G3.

The issue here is: I didnt know apple shipped any G3 laptops with OS X. When I made the purchase in the summer of 2003 I didnt see any G3 systems on the website.
Even the cheapest iBooks had low-end G4's.
 
Thank you for the welcome 🙂.

The G3 was basically retired in May of 2003, when the iBooks got the G4. Previously, both the iMacs and PowerMacs had been upgraded to it (I think the PowerMacs got it as early as 2000 or 2001). I believe OS X was shipped in conjunction with OS 9 until mid-2002. So, there was about a year there where Apple was sort of in an overlap. Too many people were using OS 9 to just up and leave it, and OS X was still too buggy and unreliable (sort of like today's new Safari beta). When 10.2 (Jaguar) came along, that's when Apple was able to ditch OS 9 for good.

Not that any of that really matters much, but I just like dispensing trivial information.
 
Macbook 13" (black 1st gen)
Intel Core 2 Duo 2Ghz
120GB HD
1GB of ram
Superdrive
Intel GMA 950 64MB video
Bluetooth 2.0/Wireless (B/G/N enabled)
Mac OSX 10.4.9

its an awesome machine. need to put in an extra 1GB and it should be even better. i wish apple would put a discrete gpu (even an 8400 would be good) in their middle/low range line.
 
iMac G3 233MHZ 384MB RAM 6GB HDD. GREAT e-mail and internet machine, too bad it was damaged by UPS, bought it for 50 dollars and got 35 back from shipping /\_/\.
 
I have a PowerBook 15, G4, 1.25Mhz. Although I am thinking about selling it to upgrade to a new MacBook Pro. Decisions, decisions. 🙂

-Keith
 
mobo - Intel DG965MS microBTX motherboard
cpu - Intel e6300 1.83 ghz core 2 duo (qualification sample B1 stepping)
HSF - thermaltake silent btx cooler
Optical Drive - pioneer dvr-108 dvd-rw
Hard Drive - Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3250824AS 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
PSU - Antec BK640B microBTX case with 380 watt atx 2.0 power supply
Case - Antec BK640B microBTX case with 380 watt atx 2.0 power supply
Video Card - XFX 6800XT 128MB
RAM - 1 GB RAM (1x512 PNY Optima, 2x256 Crucial Ballistix)

..it has tiger on it.
 
Intel mac mini / 1.66ghz Core Duo / 1GB ram / External 160GB USB HDD / 19" acer wide screen

duel boot with Vista Home Premium .....
 
MacBook (White)
1.83 Core Duo
1 GB RAM (2 GB when I get paid!)
100 GB HDD
Intel GMA950 Graphics
13.3 Widescreen @ 1280*800
Swapped out some keys from my friend's BlackBook (Letters, space, Apple, enter, enter, delete)

It's my first mac, and definitely not the last.
 
15in Macbook Pro

2.16GHz C2D
1GB ram
120GB hdd
128mb Radeon x1600
Superdrive 6x
latest OSX

I purchased it a few months ago and its my first Apple product. I'm pleased with it though I may have to buy an external hdd to complement the macbook. I also may get another gig of ram when Leopard comes out.
 
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