Nov 20
Running OS X on an Old Macintosh Portable Is Difficult, Pointless But Awesome
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This video shows an old Macintosh Portable seemingly running OS X. But how did it happen, and was it worth the effort? More »
Nov 20
Usually when we see old Mac computers appear in our news feed, it’s because someone had discovered they had one lying around in their basement and decided to put it up for sale for rather exorbitant prices, which we guess many collectors out there wouldn’t mind paying just to own a piece of history. Rarely, however, have we seen a vintage Mac product that is still running, let alone running on OS X! Alright so maybe that isn’t entirely true, but on first glance we could have been fooled because thanks to a hacker/modder, a Macintosh Portable can be seen running OS X Lion.
Basically what they did was remove the innards of the original Macintosh Portable, leaving its chassis intact, and replacing its internal components with the innards of a Toshiba NB100 inside. After some tweaking and adjusting, what we have is a Macintosh Portable running on OS X Lion, although in all honesty we guess that’s just how it looks on the surface, but still pretty cool nonetheless, right? You can check it out in action in the video above.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Macintosh Portable Runs On OS X, Apple’s new iMacs could still be on track for a November-December release,
Nov 19
Macintosh Portable Runs On OS X
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You know what they say about us humans – we are a truly creative tour de force on this side of the galaxy, and when passion and genius meets, we normally end up with something out of the ordinary. Case in point, a nostalgic modder decided that having a Macintosh Portable lying around is not going to do the machine any good, which is why he decided to turn Apple’s very first laptop to run on OS X, dubbing it as “a great café computer” in the same process. Of course, the software is not the only thing that has changed, since underneath the clean and sterile looking white plastic lies the innards of a Toshiba NB100 netbook which heroically “sacrificed” itself in the pursuit of perfection.
I’m just being a little bit dramatic here – no one in their right mind would want to shed a tear for the Toshiba NB100 netbook – after all, this is more or less a dead market despite looking all too promising just a few years ago (before the tablet world really took off, of course). Its keyboard has been rewired via a USB controller, while the ball mouse has been converted to an optical mouse. Wi-Fi and USB connectivity have also been thrown into the mix for your added portable computing pleasure.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Vintage Macintosh Portable hacked and modded to run OS X Lion, Skittles Sorting Machine helps you eat only a particular color,
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