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- Chrino, on 05/20/2008, -3/+52Got distracted:
http://macenstein.com/default/archives/category/ma ... - stellarceltic, on 05/20/2008, -14/+59Buried for having ALL FIVE on a different page. Come on people...
- thealec, on 05/20/2008, -1/+34did frisk415 really put quotation marks on his own comment?
- sdipaola, on 05/20/2008, -3/+21You'll note, I have not been a macfan in these digg threads ( since I go way back with them and once thought apple was going to change the world, but now feel that they are really just a overly hip consumer electronics company). That said, I have to admit that macs at times can last through the ages. A 4 your old dusty and neglected MAC in the attic - save my butt and made me the envey of my sons class once.
I once packed away my MAC SE ( B&W old computer) when I moved and never took it out ( since I bought newer updated macs) for 4 years. It contained my composed songs in a midi program. In passing my kindergarten son reminded me at dinner that tomorrow was the day I had promised ( I didn't even remember bragging to hos teach that I play music) to bring in my musical instrument for parents who play music day. Well I'm a geek, I didn't play really, I wrote songs on a keyboard synth at half speed into a sequencer and edit tracks till something was good and hadn't even done that for 5 years.. I had nothing for tomorrow. Then I remember that my old kurzweil synth and the mac se were packed in the attic. I spent all night finding them and setup up the cables (the hardest part) but to my amazement (there was spiders and yuck in the book box that the mac was thrown in), it all boot up and that morning I blew my son's class away with 16 part multi-timbral eno-like pieces (the teacher who was skeptical when she saw all the crap I had to setup computer/keyboard/speakers/wires was knocked out by the avalanche of sound I put trough that little room- take that French kids stuckup mom strumming Jacques Brel songs before me. That was the day my son realized that his geek day with his box and cables can kick serious butt. All thanks to a dusty/spidery MAC SE booting up after years of neglect and a MAC OS that made it reasonable for me to find/restart my midi sequenced pieces. Note I still have that Mac, the Kurzwiel flacked out on me long ago. Ok back to bashing Apple again. - hiopilot, on 05/20/2008, -0/+14I was once dispatched to a music producers office in San Mateo, CA back in the mid 90's to renumber their IP's on all their SGI servers/Indigo workstations. After doing what they needed, they asked me if I could have a look at their corporate file server. They kept complaining it was SOOO slow. I walked back into a storage room, and was shown there server. You guessed it, a PowerBook 190. I had to explain to the guy that he would need to upgrade his server at least a new PowerMac 7500 series.
I never had another call out to their office as I left the company soon after, but, with as much SGI power that they had, a POWERBOOK?!? - doublsh0t, on 05/20/2008, -5/+15better title: The Top 5 Crappiest (but still running) Mac Setups--distributed across five pages.
- orirawlings, on 05/20/2008, -3/+13maybe you just suck at taking care of your mac laptops...
- ronaldmonster, on 05/20/2008, -0/+10Dear Blogger's,
Despite what you may think, multiple pages for things that can easily go on one page don't necessarily make your article better.
Signed,
Ronaldmonster and all of digg. - inactive, on 05/20/2008, -0/+9Why? My G5 is still perfectly capable and showing no signs of slowing - add some more Ram if you are struggling - 2.5gigs on my G5 and it flies along.
- hadak, on 05/20/2008, -0/+9Hell, if I had known there was a contest going on, I would have submitted my WallBook. I converted (what was left of) a Pismo into a wall-mounted moving picture frame type dealie. It was the only way to salvage even half the components. Ugly, ugly mess it is.
- whataboutdave, on 05/20/2008, -9/+18What the hell is wrong with these people?!
I'm a hardware junkie and even I would have problems justifying keeping this junk around. Sentiment isn't nearly enough reason. - thedrue, on 05/20/2008, -2/+10I could think of plenty of reasons to use an old machine no matter how cracked up the case is... I really liked the idea of, and wish I had a broken machine I could use exclusively for frontrow... or for a file server. And there's nothing wrong with using an old machine to play some sort of slideshow onto a bunch of monitors, no point to using a shiny new mac pro or something.
- whatsthatsmell, on 05/20/2008, -0/+8duh, it's APPLE. it would have to be iSuicide
- isaactwito, on 05/20/2008, -0/+8Yeah, I have one of those older ones, maybe a 180, it still runs great. Old macs are things of legend, they keep going.
- ObiWanCalobi, on 05/20/2008, -0/+8I'm confused. Half of these don't seem bad to me. Page 4 (so number 2) is in terrible condition, page 5 (number 1) is dying so I get it being listed. The first page has a loose screen, missing key, and missing side panel? So what? Add some screws, use the other shift key and put a cover over the side. Both of the broken screens can be fixed with a different monitor, so no real problem there. Is it something about Macs that if they're not in perfect condition, they're broken? Or is it just a list of old, slow machines that the owners are too stubborn to get rid of that happen to be not in mint condition?
- bxblox, on 05/20/2008, -3/+105 pages.. ***** that
- Chronoped, on 05/20/2008, -2/+9oh man those take me back to my grade school days, when my dad had an old school powermac... dugg for familiar memories
- whataboutdave, on 05/20/2008, -0/+7I get that, but some of the "solutions" they resorted to were absurd. There is enough cheap hardware out there that nobody should be using a leaky lcd screen or a bare copper wire as a power source. It's just not safe.
- inactive, on 05/20/2008, -0/+7Because poor people get tired of viruses and crashes too, news flash some of usworking poor are literate intelligent people and get tired of hearing this sort of crap. Refurb G5 ower here...
- Psythik, on 05/20/2008, -2/+8Dugg for the last one and its similarity to the Macbook Air.
- Samtherocker, on 05/20/2008, -0/+5Good call. I'd rather click through 5 pages of "mac chick of the month" than 5 pages of one ***** article.
- mesmeriffic, on 05/20/2008, -0/+5"I hate quotations." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- froalskiner, on 05/20/2008, -0/+5I want my 5 minutes back...
- Lunarbunny, on 05/20/2008, -0/+5I've got a PowerBook G3 (MainStreet) I found. I gave it a RAM upgrade (to 160MB) but it's pretty damn slow - apparently it was the cheap model in 1998 or whatever and doesn't even have L2 cache, as well as the display being passive matrix. Plus the screen goes whacky if you put pressure on it wrong, and you have to squeeze it a little to stop the insanity.
- MacParrot, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4OOOooh! You're one of those guys that actually gives a damn about being buried. I've heard of people like you
- whisperedlie, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4did you notice the surrounding house/apartment for #2? yeah... don't think he/she's got a choice.
- max1018, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4What the hell have you been doing with it?!
- yuanzhoulu, on 05/20/2008, -4/+8you've got to be kidding me. these are far from "crappiest". back at a lab i worked in the liquid helium guys were running a Macintosh LC and storing their accounting records on some hyperstudio interface.
- leonardutah, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4I think you mean crappy.
- thedez, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4Can you say "Fire Hazard"?
- DeskFlyer, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4:humbly admits defeat:
- asskicker32, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4Are you sure youre not picking it up by the screen? Because I have a few mac laptops that are over ten years old and I dont have any issues.
The only issue I saw is in the snow ibooks, the onboard video dies (happened to me twice) - rasterbator, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3Yeah, I hate when people use MAC. Either use Macintosh or Mac, but MAC is the Media Access Control address, or unique hardware identifier of a NIC.
- isaactwito, on 05/20/2008, -3/+6I like macs and all, but that was just ***** stupid. Oh no, I take poor care of my computer, let's make a list about it! Buried!
- Macskeeball, on 05/20/2008, -1/+4It's Mac, not MAC.
- thedrue, on 05/20/2008, -5/+8And yet the still look better than many PC's especially the old beige boxes ever did! Probably function more reliably as well.
- bbqsalad, on 05/20/2008, -1/+4Yeah that phrase is done now. Let it go.
- cankillar, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3I have a booting mac classic... but I don't have a keyboard for it.
Thing's as old as I am. SO AWESOME. - griz, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3Apple computers were made of 80% wood when I was in grade school.
- wacomwacoff, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3*cough* ..er... Macs have the same processor as your PC does, doofus.
- asskicker32, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3I had a 190. I gave it to a buddy of mine who needed a computer when the sysboard needed a little soldering and he tossed it. That ass hole.
- Auryn, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3Maybe they can't afford a new one?
- BlueCadenza, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3Awesome story. I've kept my MIDIs from my days with Noteworthy composer in a CD for years now. You never know when you'll need the ideas.
- dawpa2000, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3Don't comment again. Then, no one will be able to bury you.
- Tyrghast, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3Welcome to Toshi Station, and say hello to the Power Converters!
- fxu1989, on 05/20/2008, -0/+35 pages ? Seriously ?
Not worth it. - xstarsprinklesx, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2Man, I thought I was bad for keeping my G3 iMac around even though it's two computers ago for me and can barely run Tiger..
- rasterbator, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2Title should read "Crappiest Macs in my Small Circle of Friends"
- BufordT, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2You cannot possibly have a valid crappiest old Mac list without even the mention of a Performa.
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