Apple is holding its yearly iPhone event tomorrow and rumors have been flying all year about what will be announced. Here's how I feel about everything, using Mac Rumors list as a guide. Excited Scrolling the Apple Website: My absolute most favorite thing to do after an Apple event is to scroll through all of …
Mac Museum Finds
It's becoming a busy season again for the Mac Museum. Here are some of my recent finds. 2009 MacBook Pro - $FREE I found this at the Dover Recycle Center in a bin of miscellaneous electronics including TVs, printers, and some microwaves. It was very dirty and looked as if it had been kept outside …
What’s Been Happening in the Mac Museum
I have a growing collection of retrocomputing equipment – desktops, laptops, displays, disk drives, storage media, PDAs, music players, phones, tablets, CPUs, memory, books, marketing materials, magazines, and more. I go through phases of acquiring , phases of experiencing, and phases of sharing. I’ve been acquiring and experiencing recently, and now it's time for sharing. This …
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My MiniDisc Hardware Collection
I recently got into Sony MiniDiscs based on a couple of great videos about the format and its hardware by This Does Not Compute. I recall the MiniDisc as a competitor to the iPod during the MP3 era, but never knew much about it. It was always on the periphery as yet another “proprietary Sony …
Well That Was Fast
A couple months ago I posted about my 2013 Mac Pro serving dual purpose as a museum item and my cloud backup machine. It’s done that job extremely well but it’s already being replaced by another Mac mini, one with an M4 chip, in fact. It's like an Apple TV... but wider... and taller... and …
M4 MacBook Pro Max Benchmarks
A note about the image above: this image was generated using WordPress's AI features. It "read" my post and generated an image to go with it. I have to say I'm impressed. At a glance, it looks very much like my MacBook Pro. The shape of the hardware, the layout of the interface on the …
My MacBook Pro M4 Max
I bought my MacBook Pro with a M2 Pro chip less than 2 years ago and I'm replacing it with a new one. Why? I'm trying out a new service called Upgraded, which is essentially the iPhone Upgrade program, but for Mac hardware. Upgraded isn't run by Apple, but it might as well be. It …
My 2013 Mac Pro
There are times when items in my Mac Museum cross over and provide function in my real life. One example is the Mac mini I bought as a backup server – I didn't have the 2010 design in my collection yet and I actually use it for regular tasks. It runs the Backblaze client on macOS …
BlueSCSI
I've had success installing both CF-to-IDE adapters and 2.5" SSD-to-IDE drives in my older computers, but those only cover about â…” of my collection. The rest of my machines, Macs from the late '80s and early '90s, don't use IDE at all; they use SCSI – an older and more expensive interface. Replacing SCSI drives …
My Keychron K6
I bought a Keychron K6 from eBay recently and have been using it for a few weeks. I deliberately purchased one with clicky blue switches to test out the loudest option. I like this keyboard from a design perspective. It has a small form factor, about the size of an Apple Magic Keyboard. It doesn’t …
Relatively Ambitious 