#retro mac

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Power Mac G4

“Apple PowerMac G4 M8570 (“Mirrored Drive Doors" model)” - via Wikimedia Commons

[warakami-vaporwave]

Windows81

[tamara-kama]

Now that I setup my old Mac Mini PowerPC G4 here I went ahead and rearranged the decor on this side of the room! 💜🕹️😁👍🏻

Star Ceiling

[70sgroovy]

stevie nicks photographed by ken regan, 1977

[scipunk]

Hackers (1995)

[babyb3lls]

𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎! ♥︎⋰✌︎

[smugcomputer]

old computers print....i wanted to stick to the most famous and/or iconic ones for the most part but i wanted to include sooo many of my lesser known favourites

[fehck]

[pinkfairies]

stevie nicks & lindsay buckingham (1971)

[awwfulsounds]

Apple iMac G3 in "Strawberry" 1999

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iMac G3

“All thirteen colors of the iMac G3, a personal computer produced by Apple Computer.” - via Wikimedia Commons

[acquired-stardust]

.hack//GU Volume 2 - Reminiscence Playstation 2 2006

[river-taxbird]

Have you got an old Mac that is no longer supported by Apple? It's time to give it a new life.

How to install the latest MacOS on Mac hardware that is no longer officially supported using OpenCore Legacy Patcher.

I recently discovered this and it has been a game changer. Recently my partner needed a Mac for her music course, so we bought a 2012 Macbook Pro as it was cheap and on paper still had decent hardware for working with music. We were then disappointed to find out that it is no longer supported by Apple, and therefore can't run the latest version of Logic, which she needed to inter-op with the school comptuers. Just as we thought we had bought a less than useful computer, I found this video about OpenCore Legacy Patcher from Youtuber Action Retro.

It's a community made piece of software that allows you to install the latest version of MacOS on any Intel Mac, from the late 2000s onwards. All you need to do is download the application on a mac, it will then allow you to make a bootable USB drive for any version of MacOS you want, and you just need to choose the specific mac you are targeting from a list, and it "blesses" the bootable drive, allowing you to install it on your unsupported mac using the normal install process.

I tried it and it it worked perfectly on the 2012 Macbook Pro, and the latest version of MacOS Sonoma is running perfectly well on the 12 year old hardware. It also allowed us to install the latest version of Logic, so it's working great.

Props to the team for making this and allowing hardware that would otherwise be e-waste to continue to be usable with the modern internet and software. If you end up using it, please consider donating to the team as apparently they had to jump through some serious technical hoops to get this working. Here is the link again if you need it: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

[thisischeri]

Power Mac G4 Cube, Apple, 2000

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[scipunk]

Hackers (1995)

[70sgroovy]

stevie nicks, lindsey buckingham, & christine mcvie photographed by sam emerson, 1976