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Do you own a real Mac?

Do You Own a Real Mac?


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Yes - 2 x mac mini, 1 x mac book pro retina 13", 1 x mac book pro 13"- love them all!!

Been too busy to tinker latey might break down and get a mac pro and or iMac now the price dropped. Can't wait till iMac and mac Mini get the new 2X fast SSD's. Have the samsung SM951 and trying to get it to boot. According to this article it will in mac pro towers 2012 and earlier:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8979/samsung-sm951-512-gb-review


" SM951 is bootable in tower Mac Pros (2012 and earlier)."

It works as a 2nd internal drive in the X79 and its dang fast! If I can get it to boot then would be a very happy guy!


-Gabe



Just thought it would be interesting to see if anyone here owns a real Mac in addition to their Hackintosh. I have a PowerBook G4 12" 1.5. Long in the tooth at this point, and only running Leopard, but it still runs like a champ. Better than any netbook in my opinion- it has a real graphics card!! But the Geekbench score is an abysmal 727!!! :lol:

040505_powerbook.jpg


http://lowendmac.com/pb2/12in-powerbook-g4-1.5-ghz.html

Edit 2011: Got a 13" Sandy Bridge MacBook Air! :D It's the best laptop I've ever owned.

Edit 2013: Replaced the air with a 15" Ivy Bridge MacBook Pro. Love the retina screen.
 
Guess I do...


Mac 512
G4 MDD still in use with a SSD on a PCI/SATA card & Tiger + TenfourFox and OpenOffice and iLife. Fine !
2 x G5 late 2005 : still keeping up. Fast, efficient. Great for 95% of current tasks.
Mac Pro early 2009.

Moved to Hacks (Thxs Tony !) coz' I couldnt find the high end HW specs/price I wanted.
 
Yep!
Macbook Pro 15 i7 mid 2012
Would love to buy one of the new MacBook Pro 15 since the wife has kinda taken over my Macbook Pro

(And although they do not count)
Couple of iPads of course
On my 5th iPhone with the wife getting the hand me downs

In my case buying Apple came after building Hackintosh and motivated me to do so.
I would love to have a new iMac 27 what a beautiful piece of engineering however my newest Z97X-UD5H i7 32GB 2400 ram triple boot with 3 500GB SSD and a ASUS 27 inch 2560x1440 isn't exactly mincemeat...

My 2 cents
 
Oh yeah

started with a TI994a back in 1983
less than a year later Atari 800Xl
I got 520ST the poor mans mac in 88
1990 first IBM turbo XT for burning roms to watch TV Ill leave it at that
I did build many Windows boxes 486, 586, P100,several AMD boxes
Got my first mac in March 2000 it was a Power computing powerbase
after that I was all Mac stuff power curve a 7600av
Blue and White G3 upgraded to G4
only mac I bought new MDD 867
several G4 sawtooth 2 G5's Wallstreet ,540c powerbook
TI 867 powerbook G4 167
Macbook pro 17 inch
Mac pro 2006 upgraded video and blu ray burner with hacked Mavericks via SFOTT

So yeah I've had a few mac's left out centris650 IIsi and iMac Dv

dave
 
I'm totally into old Macs! I have a PowerMac G5 2.7 GHz dual-processor model, and the highest-end iMac G4 with a 1.2 GHz G4 CPU, 2 GB of RAM, and that beautiful 17in display! In perfect condition too. I am really looking into getting a G4 Cube and upgrading it because it looks so cool, and wouldn't take up too much space. :headbang: I used to own an iMac G3 and Early 2008 MacBook Pro too.
 
MacBook Air 2012
MacBook Air 2009 (recently died)
AppleTV
iPad
iPad mini
iPhone 5S
iPhone 6+

My i7 4770k Hackintosh was originally intended primarily as a Windows machine. I just thought it would be fun to boot OS X as a novelty. However, I soon found the OS X desktop environment (with the Magic Trackpad) to be a much more enjoyable and elegant environment than Windows.

Once it was clear I could do pretty much everything I wanted in OS X, I made a complete switch and now run OS X almost exclusively.

And because of this experience, my next computer purchase will be a desktop Mac.
 
I have the first mac I ever owned still. It's an old PowerMac 8500 with an upgraded PowerForce G3 processor 400/200/512k, an ATI Radeon 7000 graphics card and a usb 1.1 usb card. I have it running osx 10.3 with XpostFacto and OS 9.2.2. Amazingly this old beast still runs.
 

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