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> 2005! The future is here! You have just spent $129 for the newest release of Mac OS X: Tiger. For me it was more like “you have just torrented the Golden Mas

by Lammy 5y ago

> 2005! The future is here! You have just spent $129 for the newest release of Mac OS X: Tiger. For me it was more like “you have just torrented the Golden Master DVD image and restored it on to your bootable Firewire iPod because you only have a CD-RW drive and nobody has released rips of the six-CD version yet” ;) https://betawiki.net/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger_build_8A428 https://betawiki.net/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger_build_8A428 e: Siracusa’s review for Ars is still a great read too: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2005/04/macosx-10-4/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2005/04/macosx-10-4/

quijoteuniv 5y ago
I had a disc i bought at the end of line to fix a mac of a friend, some decade ago! and when refurbishing old macs to Linux become very handy, as before i could install linux sometimes i needed eEFInd.
lostgame 5y ago
I don’t think I ever paid for a MacOS (OSX, at the time) upgrade. I still remember buying a RapidShare account for a month to get Snow Leopard off those multi-split files because I couldn’t find a torrent. The 00’s were such a different time for tech.
- varunprasad 5y ago
  I paid for alternate OS X versions (and then jumped on the snow leopard wagon immediately due to the $29? price). That meant shelling out $129 after about 3 years (2 year lifecycles, and I think I bought my first mac almost a year into the then OS lifecycle). This provided me with excellent stability and a very reasonable price. I'd save up a few hundred $s, and then upgrade the software and hardware at around the same time, so I also added additional RAM and moved the HDD to the CD-RW and inserted an SSD instead of the HDD (I am 100% sure I made these changes for my macbook, but I'm not sure if I made them, or if they were even possible, for the iBook I owned before). That was almost a decade+ of highly stable, highly effective, and almost cutting edge of computing that I haven't even come close to replicating in the almost decade since, despite earning real money. I did switch to Linux for my personal computing a few months ago, and I have hopes that this may allow me to do so, once I really set something up once I get to my Mar-Apr spring cleaning. Linux is giving me that Mac feeling for the first time in a long time, although the major challenge here appears to be restraining oneself. It seems so easy to get lost trying to distro hop constantly, or try a new terminal for marginal benefits, etc. The new shiny in Linux shines very bright, and restraint seems to be the core challenge required to have a stable, outcome focused computing experience with Linux.
  - imwillofficial 5y ago
    Have fun, explore, distro hop, after while you’ll settle on the right mix of tools for you
kitsunesoba 5y ago
The bootable disk function of iPods was really something else. It saved me multiple times through the years, at one point even functioning as a primary boot drive when the HD in my sunflower iMac G4 gave up the ghost. I wish modern smartphones had a similar capability. I know Android phones let you copy files to them via MTP, but that’s not even a fraction as good as the portable HD function of iPods was.
- GekkePrutser 5y ago
  Well it was really just a fancy external drive. It's more because of macOS happily booting from any kind of external device that makes this happen.
  - kitsunesoba 5y ago
    That’s true, I remember being a bit confused when I found that Windows was extremely picky about what it booted from, with weird hacks being required to boot a Win2K or XP installer from anything other than an optical disc. Both OS 9 and OS X were pretty lax about that.
    - GekkePrutser 5y ago
      Yeah I booted from USB HDD for a while in the XP days but it was necessary to edit the registry to make sure all USB related drivers would load at an earlier stage during boot. And installing any updates would usually revert this, leading to an unbootable system :/ Not sure if this still works like that but it was a total PITA.
  - kccqzy 5y ago
    A friend of mine even booted from an SD card.
    - JadeNB 5y ago
      That must have been slooooow.
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by Lammy 5y ago

quijoteuniv 5y ago

I had a disc i bought at the end of line to fix a mac of a friend, some decade ago! and when refurbishing old macs to Linux become very handy, as before i could install linux sometimes i needed eEFInd.

lostgame 5y ago

I don’t think I ever paid for a MacOS (OSX, at the time) upgrade. I still remember buying a RapidShare account for a month to get Snow Leopard off those multi-split files because I couldn’t find a torrent. The 00’s were such a different time for tech.

varunprasad 5y ago
I paid for alternate OS X versions (and then jumped on the snow leopard wagon immediately due to the $29? price). That meant shelling out $129 after about 3 years (2 year lifecycles, and I think I bought my first mac almost a year into the then OS lifecycle). This provided me with excellent stability and a very reasonable price. I'd save up a few hundred $s, and then upgrade the software and hardware at around the same time, so I also added additional RAM and moved the HDD to the CD-RW and inserted an SSD instead of the HDD (I am 100% sure I made these changes for my macbook, but I'm not sure if I made them, or if they were even possible, for the iBook I owned before). That was almost a decade+ of highly stable, highly effective, and almost cutting edge of computing that I haven't even come close to replicating in the almost decade since, despite earning real money. I did switch to Linux for my personal computing a few months ago, and I have hopes that this may allow me to do so, once I really set something up once I get to my Mar-Apr spring cleaning. Linux is giving me that Mac feeling for the first time in a long time, although the major challenge here appears to be restraining oneself. It seems so easy to get lost trying to distro hop constantly, or try a new terminal for marginal benefits, etc. The new shiny in Linux shines very bright, and restraint seems to be the core challenge required to have a stable, outcome focused computing experience with Linux.
- imwillofficial 5y ago
  Have fun, explore, distro hop, after while you’ll settle on the right mix of tools for you

kitsunesoba 5y ago

The bootable disk function of iPods was really something else. It saved me multiple times through the years, at one point even functioning as a primary boot drive when the HD in my sunflower iMac G4 gave up the ghost. I wish modern smartphones had a similar capability. I know Android phones let you copy files to them via MTP, but that’s not even a fraction as good as the portable HD function of iPods was.

GekkePrutser 5y ago
Well it was really just a fancy external drive. It's more because of macOS happily booting from any kind of external device that makes this happen.
- kitsunesoba 5y ago
  That’s true, I remember being a bit confused when I found that Windows was extremely picky about what it booted from, with weird hacks being required to boot a Win2K or XP installer from anything other than an optical disc. Both OS 9 and OS X were pretty lax about that.
  - GekkePrutser 5y ago
    Yeah I booted from USB HDD for a while in the XP days but it was necessary to edit the registry to make sure all USB related drivers would load at an earlier stage during boot. And installing any updates would usually revert this, leading to an unbootable system :/ Not sure if this still works like that but it was a total PITA.
- kccqzy 5y ago
  A friend of mine even booted from an SD card.
  - JadeNB 5y ago
    That must have been slooooow.
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