Our First Macintosh

We bought a used iMac G3 (450MHz, 128MB RAM, OS X 10.1) from a friend. It was a good price, and we thought it would be a great way to sink our teeth into a Macintosh (at least in a way beyong what we’ve been exposed to by supporting them). I also thought it might be nice for testing web pages and other stuff. It runs pretty well, albeit a bit slow. I think we might throw some more memory in it. It’s a pretty nifty little machine.

Some may remember that I actually started on Apple’s back in the day. Apple IIe’s in grade school, and my first computer was an Apple IIgs, which offered a finder very similar to earlier versions of Mac OS (but was somewhat useless without a hard drive at the time). I switched over to the IBM-compatibles because BBSs were the big craze and anyone who was anyone with a BBS ran it on a DOS machine. Plus, Mac OS prior to X were simply dreadful, in my opinion. Since then I’ve used Windows, Linux, and OS/2, but have always sheepishly come back to Windows. Perhaps this time will be different. I like the BSD core OS X has, and I’m looking forward to the new Mactel machines.

June 21st, 2005  Uncategorized   Tags: apple, Computers, imac, toys, more...

Running OS X on a PC

Just saw a cool article on Slashdot about a neat utility called PearPC that lets you run PPC software (like Mac OS X) on your PC! It’s been reported that it’s slow as hell, however, but still a neat proof-of-concept.

• PearPC 0.1: Is It A Miracle? – Contains several screenshots
• Another Screenshot

May 18th, 2004  Software   Tags: apple, emulator, macintosh, opensource, pear, Software, more...