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Photos: The Top 5 Crappiest (but still running) Mac Setups

macenstein.com — Want to feel good about your scratched up, outdated Mac? Here's a list of the top 5 most beat to hell Mac setups still loyally serving their masters (WARNING: Contains scenes of uncensored technological carnage).

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  • neolycan, on 05/20/2008, -19/+13They take a kicking and keep on ticking
    • 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.
    • prophetpimp, on 05/20/2008, -2/+3in that regards the thinkpad are far more superior. Forget about kicking, they can take on a whole football team and still survive.
  • Unreal595, on 05/20/2008, -27/+18Screw my old Mac. It's slow as hell and when a Mac is slow, it's ****ing SLLOOOOOWWWWWWW
    • bbqsalad, on 05/20/2008, -6/+4My G5 is ***** slow. Its neat how you have to buy a whole new machine rather than upgrade.
      • zongamin, 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.
    • 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.
  • tian2992, on 05/20/2008, -7/+5I disarmed mine and painted it, now the paint is scratching, and looks awful,
    and the power cord is busted, and the power converter as well
    yet this are truly creepy!
    • Tyrghast, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3Welcome to Toshi Station, and say hello to the Power Converters!
    • leonardutah, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4I think you mean crappy.
    • lukemandese, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2My mac set up is a G4 laptop with completely broken screen, hooked up to a monitor. The contraption only has 3 gb's of storage left.
  • 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.
      • 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.
        • minorthreat, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2yea, we don't want that lcd to leak all over the desk and make a mess, who's going to clean that up?

          I would chose a laptop with a busted LCD over a small desktop any day to run some some applications on a distant screen, plus it uses alot less power.
    • Spamcan, on 05/20/2008, -1/+3Some Mac users are just totally nuts and view their old hardware as collected treasures rather then disposable and out of date, much like a guy who has a vintage car and puts more time into keeping it running then actually driving it.
    • ericmerrill, on 05/20/2008, -1/+2Maybe some people are grateful, resourceful or otherwise refuse to waste something they've paid so much money for. I'm sure you're a great guy and all, but damn, that comment comes off wrong. You'd probably think a rich little California girl wondering what's wrong with people who drive beat-up old cars is ridiculous, don't be the same way.
    • 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.
    • Auryn, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3Maybe they can't afford a new one?
      • Tyrghast, on 05/20/2008, -1/+3With Mac prices as outrageous as they are, that wouldn't surprise me.
    • mGARANDEUR1, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1Some people might not have a need to replace their computer for what they are working on.
  • DeskFlyer, on 05/20/2008, -24/+9***** THING SUCKS!
  • thealec, on 05/20/2008, -23/+2lol...
    This is back when Macs looked like they had processors inside them...
    • thealec, on 05/20/2008, -7/+0Oh snap I've been burified! What'd I do?
      • dawpa2000, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3Don't comment again. Then, no one will be able to bury you.
      • 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
    • wacomwacoff, on 05/20/2008, -0/+3*cough* ..er... Macs have the same processor as your PC does, doofus.
    • thealec, on 05/28/2008, -0/+0I've got three apples and one PC.
      My Mac Pro has a Dual Intel Quad Xeon.
      My Laptop (HP Pavilion PoS) has an AMD 64 Anthlon.

      But this matters not. I was actually talking about how the white blank look on macs masks the ugly useless hardware inside.

      You put that iBandwagon to shame.
    • thealec, on 05/29/2008, -0/+0Just to emphasize something, my first comment was killed; yet the last one was not. Since when did talking logic appeal to this community?
  • 0260, on 05/20/2008, -33/+5face it, it was crap when you bought it.
  • stellarceltic, on 05/20/2008, -14/+60Buried for having ALL FIVE on a different page. Come on people...
  • Chronoped, on 05/20/2008, -2/+10oh man those take me back to my grade school days, when my dad had an old school powermac... dugg for familiar memories
    • 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.
  • Chrino, on 05/20/2008, -3/+52Got distracted:
    http://macenstein.com/default/archives/category/ma ...
    • vexingmodstwo, on 05/20/2008, -7/+1The May chick has fake boobs... So do a few others but hers are hanging funny. I'd still hit it, don't get me wrong.
    • 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.
    • rasterbator, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1Awesome. I wonder what she looked like before that awful boob job?
  • HafizD, on 05/20/2008, -8/+5Ahhhhhh, these make me want to commit eSuicide.
    • whatsthatsmell, on 05/20/2008, -0/+8duh, it's APPLE. it would have to be iSuicide
  • 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?!?
    • 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.
    • 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.
  • dha07030, on 05/20/2008, -16/+1These people are clearly poor, why do they own macs.
    • mrraven200, 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...
    • bigsteve, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2(cost of decent PC + cost of anti-virus + cost of anti-spyware) < (cost of equivalent Mac)

      Oh, updates for those protect-ware packages cost money every year? Hmmm...
  • frisk415, on 05/20/2008, -15/+3***** SITE SUCKS!
  • xtinamo, on 05/20/2008, -12/+5Mac laptop screens seriously suck. With my first powerbook G4, I had to hook up to my tv screen as the screen went completely black. My second G4, I had to tilt the screen ever so carefully to avoid the picture breaking up. Now on my Macbook Pro, when I pick it up the screen always falls back and is doomed to the fate of #5. They've all been free so it's hard to really complain, but if I had bought these I would be totally pissed.
    • orirawlings, on 05/20/2008, -3/+13maybe you just suck at taking care of your mac laptops...
    • 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)
  • Hijack32, on 05/20/2008, -4/+2The Pure Carnage Of it all
  • 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..
  • chkdg8, on 05/20/2008, -6/+2I think I just threw up in my mouth......Yup.
  • 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.
    • leonardutah, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2Pic?
      • hadak, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1It's in a box right now, because I just moved. I'll be sure to post/submit pictures once I unpack it.
  • DigitalKid215, on 05/20/2008, -7/+5I know Macs are expensive but damn! You can't possibly be that broke after purchasing one that you can't buy another instead of putting those POS on life support. Pull the plug; let them die with dignity.
  • yosserhughes, on 05/20/2008, -2/+3I have a painting of an old Abacus if that'll make you all feel better.
  • doublsh0t, on 05/20/2008, -5/+15better title: The Top 5 Crappiest (but still running) Mac Setups--distributed across five pages.
  • 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.
  • bCabulon, on 05/20/2008, -2/+3I've got an old Mac Plus that I run with a 44mb syquest cartridge. It is still in good condition.
  • AaronS2000, on 05/20/2008, -6/+1starts with a C and rhymes with flickcucked
  • bxblox, on 05/20/2008, -3/+105 pages.. ***** that
  • 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.
    • 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.
    • Macskeeball, on 05/20/2008, -1/+4It's Mac, not MAC.
      • 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.
  • briantek, on 05/20/2008, -1/+2There is nothing I hate more than seeing a broken LCD screen. :(
  • 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!
  • Psythik, on 05/20/2008, -2/+8Dugg for the last one and its similarity to the Macbook Air.
  • thealec, on 05/20/2008, -2/+0Seriously. Recycle those already. Or was this before Macs became recyclable?
  • 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.
  • thedez, on 05/20/2008, -0/+4Can you say "Fire Hazard"?
  • heystoopid, on 05/20/2008, -2/+1Lose the bracketed words and the title is most appropriate as it says it all about the one in twenty five mob suffering from delusions !
  • joeycerone, on 05/20/2008, -1/+1they could've fit it all on one page...
  • bbqsalad, on 05/20/2008, -1/+3These don't even look that bad. Crappy list. More anteaters please.
  • fxu1989, on 05/20/2008, -0/+35 pages ? Seriously ?

    Not worth it.
  • 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?
  • vonskippy, on 05/20/2008, -10/+1Crappiest Mac? That pretty much applies to all of them.
  • lolwutpear, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1Boring, my Quadra 700 is still up and running. It's a replacement for a IIci that died within the past 7 years.
  • sarchosis, on 05/20/2008, -3/+3I'm surprised no one said "aren't all macs crappy (but still running)?"

    (This is being typed on a MacBook Pro, no mac hate here :p)
  • davin510, on 05/20/2008, -6/+2http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ma ...
  • mrraven200, on 05/20/2008, -1/+2I got a Sony Vaio FE770G Notebook with a core 2 duo processor, 1 gig ram 120 gig drive, 15 inch widesceen XP media center, and a slightly melted keyboard for a 100 bucks off Craigslist. I stuck in another gig of ram, and dual boot with Hardy Heron and with a little cleaning and super gluing of the keys it works fine (typing on it now), I LIKE the fact the enter key is warped and melted and superglued together as well as the semicolon, l and k keys, it gives it character something computers often lack.
  • johntkucz, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1Dang! If I would have known about this contest earlier, I could have placed! I had a macbook pro that literally ELECTROCUTED YOU as you typed! It wasn't drastic and happened about every five minuts, but the wrist pad metal was worn down and every five minutes or so while typing you got zapped! Ahhh!! Gotta love the macs anytime and all time, though!
  • Sawta, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1I would like to digg this story; but FIVE pages.

    Really?
  • Jonmad17, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2My Macbook Pro looks awful.It only charges when it wants to, the paint is coming off in some parts, the entire computer is dirty, it's missing two buttons and some more are starting to come off, the disk drive doesn't work and has a DVD stuck in it, the screen has some scratches on it, the entire laptop is covered in scratches and dents, and worst of all: The Laptop is only a little bit over a year old.

    Sad isn't it?
  • froalskiner, on 05/20/2008, -0/+5I want my 5 minutes back...
  • RDHerm, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2I wish I new they were running a contest. I had a PowerBook G4 that was literally held together with copious amounts of Gorilla Glue. The battery was shot so it had to stay plugged in to run, the hinges on the display were busted so it had to be propped up by something, and the screen itself had a couple large clusters of dead pixels. It still ran like a champ for the most part, but I finally broke it up for the few salvageable parts just last month.
  • AzureRise, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1Crappiest Mac setup? All of them! (Sorry, just had to, I have nothing against Macs.)
  • Ocelot13, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1so, apparently crappy just means dont take care of your computer.
    nothing is wrong with 2 of them if youd just fix the screens.
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