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This thread inspired me to upgrade my 7 year old MacBook unibody. I'm maxing out the RAM at 8GB and replacing the stock HDD with an SSD. The thing performs terribly right now, and I'm pretty sure the SSD will make up most of the difference. Going from 2GB to 8GB of RAM can't hurt either. I'll know in a few days when the parts get here if it will be resurrected as a somewhat bulky netbook or whether it will be doomed back to the tech graveyard in my closet.
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SLOSifl posted:This thread inspired me to upgrade my 7 year old MacBook unibody. I'm maxing out the RAM at 8GB and replacing the stock HDD with an SSD. MacBook unibody? That still performs just fine on 10.11. Shoot, its still my fav MacBook with the 9400m
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SLOSifl posted:This thread inspired me to upgrade my 7 year old MacBook unibody. I'm maxing out the RAM at 8GB and replacing the stock HDD with an SSD.
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SLOSifl posted:This thread inspired me to upgrade my 7 year old MacBook unibody. I'm maxing out the RAM at 8GB and replacing the stock HDD with an SSD. I did this exact thing but I've also did a battery swap and it has been my primary computing device since mid-2009, it is surprisingly useful.
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Mar 3, 2016 19:08
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First gen i* processors hold up really well because of the lack of progress made in the last few years.
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Hopper posted:This is from page 2. I just want to say that is a chieftec Tower. I still use mine and it was bought in 2000 IIrc. Sorry bro, antec was the og.
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Mar 3, 2016 19:11
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jm20 posted:I did this exact thing but I've also did a battery swap and it has been my primary computing device since mid-2009, it is surprisingly useful. EDIT: Just looking around on Ebay. This iBook has a something on the login screen about original media. Is that likely just going to need a fresh install of OS 9 or something like that? The description says the battery doesn't hold a charge but that's not really a showstopper as it's just for playing around with at home. Casimir Radon has a new favorite as of 21:27 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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Mar 3, 2016 19:21
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a starwar betamax posted:What do people do with cmputers besides play games and type things into various office products and surf the inteernet? Check this nerds one weird trick to heat his flat - energy companies HATE him. Seriously, 52 C excess heat is quite good in winter tbh...
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Mar 3, 2016 23:11
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Hopper posted:Check this nerds one weird trick to heat his flat - energy companies HATE him.
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Mar 3, 2016 23:12
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:I had a similar HP but it was a 3.2Ghz Pentium 4.  I forgot they tried to stuff Prescott's into laptops and pass them off as a computer instead of space heater.
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Mar 4, 2016 02:00
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a starwar betamax posted:What do people do with cmputers besides play games and type things into various office products and surf the inteernet?  
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Anyone remember this device that was like a glorified PDA? It was about tablet size, but used a stylus that stuck out of the top of it. It was marketed as a family messaging device and could be hung on a wall. It had some cutesy name. I bought one because it looked cool but was essentially useless. I think it could be hacked to use Linux from what I remembered.
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Casimir Radon posted:EDIT: Just looking around on Ebay. This iBook has a something on the login screen about original media. Is that likely just going to need a fresh install of OS 9 or something like that? I'm not 100 percent certain but yes that screen just means it needs to be formatted and reinstalled because someone hosed something up.
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Mar 4, 2016 03:22
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TipsyMc posted:Anyone remember this device that was like a glorified PDA? It was about tablet size, but used a stylus that stuck out of the top of it. It was marketed as a family messaging device and could be hung on a wall. It had some cutesy name. I bought one because it looked cool but was essentially useless. I think it could be hacked to use Linux from what I remembered. I totally remember that. Damned if I can remember the name though. Like Audrey or something.
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Data Graham posted:I totally remember that. Damned if I can remember the name though. Like Audrey or something. Yes! That's it! 
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Mar 4, 2016 03:29
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Well son of a bitch
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feedmegin posted:I write code code that lets people either enter stuff into office products, durf the web, or play a game. right?
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a starwar betamax posted:durf the web Perfect
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Mar 4, 2016 08:54
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As much as I like this thread, it shows me many of you seem to have a problem administering money. Can't you play these old games on emulated systems?
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Non Serviam posted:As much as I like this thread, it shows me many of you seem to have a problem administering money.  's emote code is : retrogames :.
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Mar 4, 2016 11:21
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Of course you can, in some cases the emulation is even more compatible and flexible than the original systems ever were. It's just fun screwing around with the old hardware. If you're just interested in playing the old games and couldn't care less about the hardware there's usually no reason to do so though. (Last time I checked, and that was quite a while ago, PPC emulation at least also wasn't really feasible. I could imagine that this has changed, too)
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Police Automaton posted:(Last time I checked, and that was quite a while ago, PPC emulation at least also wasn't really feasible. I could imagine that this has changed, too)
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Mar 4, 2016 11:45
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Not sure if this one has been included yet: Wasted dozens if not hundreds of hours of my adolescence on this one.
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Mar 4, 2016 11:52
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Marshall Louis posted:Not sure if this one has been included yet: This game was so loving broken on the Amiga and I did not get it and got bored quickly, imagine my suprise playing the PC version for the first time and seeing the AI actually do anything (AI was completely passive on the Amiga). Also there was no time compression on the Amiga and so you'd travel forever between the isles. What a broken heap of garbage. There's also a remake. I only saw some screens a while ago and it looked quite good. Is it playable like the original or did they ruin it?
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Police Automaton posted:This game was so loving broken on the Amiga and I did not get it and got bored quickly, imagine my suprise playing the PC version for the first time and seeing the AI actually do anything (AI was completely passive on the Amiga). Also there was no time compression on the Amiga and so you'd travel forever between the isles. What a broken heap of garbage. The enemy carrier AI seemed tough enough, but even now I can remember that i'd always run into him at Thermopylae...jfc why do I remember that 25 years later... Anyway, your island defenses were terrible (no/stupid AI) and you had to manually control everything. I think I demoed the Gaea Mission remake, for about 10 minutes ...it uhh... it really came off as a game you have to WANT to play despite its failings, like poor AI, voice acting, bad pathing etc. This was about the same time I learned to stop revisiting abandoned franchises/storylines I liked when I was 11 or 12 years old. Its probably something to get when its $10 if you're curious. EDIT: Steam still has a demo mission for the remake Ren and Stimpire has a new favorite as of 12:15 on Mar 4, 2016 |
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The Kins posted:There's a reason that drat,  on me  It feels good tho
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Compared to some of the stuff dicussed in the retrogames thread most of this stuff is relatively inexpensive. Every time I check up on an SD2SNES they're still expensive as hell, and usually sold out.
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I'm at a conference in San Antonio this week, and got to hear a session presented by an 18 year old who bought an IBM z890 mainframe for $237. The reaction from a packed room full of mainframers hearing someone say "Yeah, so I read some books on IOCDS and figured out how to write mine that weekend" was pretty amazing. I've been working with mainframes for 15 years now, and it's still a black magic to me. https://www.reddit.com/r/IBM/comments/3relk4/i_just_bought_an_ibm_z890/ 
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:1) The whole "desktop replacement" laptop concept is bullshit. these are all things that people seemingly must learn for themselves because people always ask me for advice "because you are computer guy", i tell em basically that, and they ignore it that or people are really really bright eyed about the ability to 'play games on the go' before they realize that gaming/workstation/media laptops will never leave their desk nigga crab pollock has a new favorite as of 15:39 on Mar 4, 2016 |
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Mar 4, 2016 15:36
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also heat management is real loving important, probably the most important if your personal computing device gets hot enough to be painful to the touch, it is a piece of poo poo
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Mar 4, 2016 15:42
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nigga crab pollock posted:also heat management is real loving important, probably the most important so just about every laptop ever made
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Intel has some pretty low TDP i*-cores. It's just; affordable, fast, low TDP, pick two. e: This is in response to "so all laptops," obviously any gaming laptop is going to be a ball-roaster.
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thathonkey posted:so just about every laptop ever made maybe stop buying $400 toshiba walmart specials idk
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Germstore posted:Intel has some pretty low TDP i*-cores. It's just; affordable, fast, low TDP, pick two. e: This is in response to "so all laptops," obviously any gaming laptop is going to be a ball-roaster. also p much anything will roast your balls if you run it at full load for an hour. the willingness for it to reach ball roasting temperature is the important thing macbooks totally will cook your balls but thats if u like try to play games on em. if you just surf n photoshop it probably wont ever get warm. that $600 acer walmart special will be at ball cooking temperature before the windows screen shows up
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also its officially at the point where hard disk drives are for scrubs 100gb is more than enough for whatever poo poo you have. its more than enough for my poo poo and i am a loving nerd. buy a $20 flash drive for your 30gb music collection if you must, its more fail-secure than just putting all your poo poo on your main drive anyways
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My wife has one of those ball roasters, not actually from Walmart, but same deal. I tried to convince her that paying twice as much was worth it, and now she has a machine that thermal throttles while playing farm heroes. But to be fair to the machine I'm pretty sure farm heroes could replace Prime95 for burn ins.
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Germstore posted:My wife has one of those ball roasters, not actually from Walmart, but same deal. I tried to convince her that paying twice as much was worth it, and now she has a machine that thermal throttles while playing farm heroes. But to be fair to the machine I'm pretty sure farm heroes could replace Prime95 for burn ins. its a flash game apparently so its probably the most intensive thing that computer can and will ever run
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A laptop that's never been properly cleaned can also roast the poo poo out of your balls. Amazing what a can of compressed air and a little patience can do.
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Browsing is a league in it's own, that's also where all these low powered machines fall flat which do absolutely fine otherwise. I hate how Browser-centric the average user experience has become. Often it plain isn't necessary and doesn't really even improve usability. I sometimes wonder how much energy worldwide is wasted just because of lovely coding and bad internet habits.Marshall Louis posted:EDIT: Steam still has a demo mission for the remake Will have to check that out. Yeah, I can imagine they ruined it. That's the usual experience. One very noteworthy exception for me is that new Pirates! Game they made a while ago. It has a few annoying things but overall really feels like an improvement and expands in logical places over the old games. I still enjoy playing it now and then and haven't really returned to the older Pirates! versions since I have it.
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:1) The whole "desktop replacement" laptop concept is bullshit. You probably meant 'gaming desktop' because I used to need a big honkin' tower and now a Macbook Pro does my job perfectly
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