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The Mac mini G4 isn't really "retro". Maybe it is to you, but I doubt you'll see any G4 minis at the Vintage Computer Faire.
by leptons 2y ago
The Mac mini G4 isn't really "retro". Maybe it is to you, but I doubt you'll see any G4 minis at the Vintage Computer Faire.
- WoodenChair 2y agoIt's not really that the computer itself is retro, it's that people use it for retro computing because it's pretty much the fastest Mac you can get that can still run Mac OS 9 (1999). People then run games and apps from systems 1-9. So people buy this computer from 2005 to run an operating system from 1999 to run apps from 1984 to 1999.
- leptons 2y agoThe only Apple that is really "retro" is the Apple 1 or Apple II series. A mac is still a mac, even OS9.
- LarryMade2 2y agoYeah for me OS9 is pretty retro - Classic Mac OS was great with some awesome apps many of which didn't make it into OSX and using the classic emulator in OSX doesn't help the experience. The Mini is a great compact hardware platform to run them on. I have four minis that run various Mac OS generations.
- linguae 2y agoA thought dawned on me this morning when I was thinking about the Power Mac G5, which came out around the time I first started getting into Macs: over 20 years have elapsed since the release of the Power Mac G5 (and it's been almost 20 years since the release of the original Mac Mini). 20 years ago was the 20th anniversary of the original Macintosh 128K. The Macintosh 128K was decidedly retro back in 2004. Even though the curve of evolution between 2004 and 2024 is much flatter than the curve between 1984 and 2004, I still consider a 20 year-old computer retro, even if a Mac Mini G4 or a Power Mac G5 is much closer to contemporary Macs than a Macintosh 128K was to a Mac Mini G4.