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@Gingerbread Demon I have two of those old IBM keyboards, yes, they're really nice to type on, they're easy to do maintenance on but you can hear people typing on them two blocks away.. :p

Amaris said:
Probably, and it would be hell for me to spend time replacing all of those capacitors, but for me the unibody design is half the attraction. I'd imagine, or at least I hope, that part of the reason the prices on eBay are so high is because they've done the work of addressing those issues, and are essentially presenting the buyer with a "like new" 40 year old computer ready to go, which I can't argue with, honestly.


Indeed. The Commodore 8032 is cool as fuck, you can't change my mind.

Oh! In more modern news, KDE 5.27 is being released today. They've added a whole bunch of updates, upgrades, and bug fixes, and it looks pretty damn good!

GNOME will be releasing 44 next month, and it will FINALLY come with the updated file picker that allows images to be viewable without having to either guess or look for a little side window preview. I can't wait for that, as I moved to GNOME as my DE last month and am really enjoying it.

Personally, I can't wait until Fedora 38/39, where we're supposed to get DNF5. If they can get that out the door, and it works half as well as they say it will, then I will have no more actual quibbles with Fedora.
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The PET was nice, also one of the first really useful computers out there.:mallory:
 
Santaman said:
@Gingerbread Demon I have two of those old IBM keyboards, yes, they're really nice to type on, they're easy to do maintenance on but you can hear people typing on them two blocks away.. :p



The PET was nice, also one of the first really useful computers out there.:mallory:
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It really was. I also put the Apple II up there as one of the first truly useful home computers. It was a powerhouse back in its day, and while I don't like the trajectory Apple ended up taking (more of a luxury electronic goods than a computer company), it was the first push by Apple, by Commodore, by IBM, and even Tandy (a leather company!) that lead to the explosion of home computing, and that colored so much of my childhood.
 
First computer my brother and I bought was a Atari 260ST, it was quite nice but software was hard to find where I live so we bought a PC Speed card which would allow you to use it as a PC, it was a card with a NEC V 20 on it, we later traded that machine in for a Philips NMS 9100 PC with the stunning Seagate ST-225 20 MB harddrive and a VGA card, we still have this machine and later on I bought its brother, a Philips P 3105 which is actually the same machine, the NMS series was sold to businesses and the P series to non business customers.:D
After that it all went quick, next one was a 80486 DX2 66 which we also still have..

As for Apple.. yeah.. they've become a fashion brand kinda..
 
My 4 HDD docking bay came today. Storage space! UNLIMITED storage space! Mine is an evil laugh!

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video from last year about the Apple Mac Mini.

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So you can't just chuck in a new SSD thanks Apple.
 
^^ Like I said, it's a fashion brand.. no need for self repairing or upgrading, want higher specs? Pay a higher (and even more ridicilous) price.
 
Santaman said:
^^ Like I said, it's a fashion brand.. no need for self repairing or upgrading, want higher specs? Pay a higher (and even more ridicilous) price.
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It is very much a fashion brand, and you buy machines with lower specs then current PCs at three times the price too, because they look cool.
 
Gingerbread Demon said:
It is very much a fashion brand, and you buy machines with lower specs then current PCs at three times the price too, because they look cool.
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How do you define lower specs?

the M2 processors being used in the new macs have great performance at a very low power consumption.

Suggest you keep digging through those LTT youtube videos (without posting the old ones that tell us nothing new) where they look at the performance, price and just why people buy Macs (I'll give you a hint, people often buy Macs for a particular job and they are brilliant at the job).
 
Owain Taggart said:
Layout and Publishing? That's one thing I've known them to do really well. The print industry practically lives on them.
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Exactly - probably video editting and audio as well (remembering that some of the applications in those areas started off on Mac and move to PC and where the ported versions aren't quite as stable).
 
Oh yeah, forgot the video editing. Even when I actually ended up getting a Macbook due to video editing I was doing at the time. That's one area they really excelled at. And one of my classes in college was desktop publishing, and we learned on Macs using QuarkExpress. At one time they absolutely dominated the industry, though I'm not sure how much of that is still true these days. But it used to be if you wanted to get ahead in either of them, you had to use a Mac.

I still do Desktop publishing from time to time, though I use Scribus now. Good piece of open-source software.
 
Heh, I was actually wondering if they were still around when I wrote that. They are an example of a company that built itself up on Macs, and I think Adobe is another.
 
So, my Sempron 145 isn't really up to scratch anymore when it come to modern OS's (single core sadness..) so I've installed XP on the machine, of course you need to get all the drivers, I always get them from the manufacturers site first and then I usually go hunting for updates to those, I always use snapshot after the machine is freshly installed, after that I install drivers etc, tried the most recent ones I could find and that messed up the machine.. so wtf.. put back the image and then installed the drivers from the manufacturers site, these were all from 2011-2013 or about that and the machine works flawlessly on those... so the latest versions aren't always the best solution even on a simple machine like that.. :)
 
I shall just leave this interesting video here.

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This just happened to me a few minutes ago:

5-Min PC Diagnosis: My Dad was working at his computer when the monitor simply went blank. I went to look and we went through some possible things to try. Then I look at his monitor and notice no lights. I tell him it might be power related. He takes a look at the power cable, and looky, it's loose! Push it back in and BAM! Picture is back. :D Only wish things were always so simple!
 
Owain Taggart said:
This just happened to me a few minutes ago:

5-Min PC Diagnosis: My Dad was working at his computer when the monitor simply went blank. I went to look and we went through some possible things to try. Then I look at his monitor and notice no lights. I tell him it might be power related. He takes a look at the power cable, and looky, it's loose! Push it back in and BAM! Picture is back. :D Only wish things were always so simple!
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But that can be so annoying when it's something as basic as "cable is loose"
 
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