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snes1423
256 MB  Posts: 458 A Man born of Mechina 
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on: May 22, 2025, 06:44
one thing i have to give computers of the last 15 or so years credit for is thanks to flash storage absolute silence plus the fact that despite my 2012 MacBook Air being under 0.80 inches it has a far superior speaker system then the G3 iMac for Music |
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lauland
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512 MB Posts: 674 Symtes 7 Mewconer!
Reply #1 on: May 23, 2025, 03:24
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So true! I don't appreciate the speakers in my more recent Mac laptops until I have to use a really old one, or, shudder, even worse an old pc laptop. I was using an ancient thinkpad the other day and when a game started playing its music, I almost laughed at the tinny quality. Silent machines are so nice, but took me quite a while to get used to. My first MacBook Air threw me for a loop, because I'd gotten so used to listening to hard drive noises when some really long process was running as a proxy to "make sure the machine was still doing something and hadn't crashed". Back in the day when crashes were so common, this was really useful, but, of course a lot less in MacOS X! I also sometimes miss hard drive activity lights, again, the little flashing led was reassuring that the machine was doing SOMETHING. Of course, Apple eliminated these very early for the most part. There's a hack for some laptops to make their "sleep indicator" light flash for hard drive access, that I think is pretty fun...but even THAT light is missing on MacBook airs! It's gotten to the point I feel nostalgic for the noise of busy drives and the flashing led's. So when I use an old pc laptop I actually get a kick out of them.
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #2 on: May 26, 2025, 00:22
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I give you the huuge improvement in speaker quality. So much so actually, that I gave up on the classical set of extra stereo speakers over a decade ago. But call me a fool, I do miss the clack, clack, clack sounds of the floppy disk drive and the scratching noise of my hard disk adnd those tiny flashing activity LEDs. The system feels outright dead w/o them. 
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1179 System 7, today and forever
Reply #3 on: May 26, 2025, 00:58
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I kinda wish I could print a Classic Mac case for a Raspberry Pi-like PC card that could have a floppy of sorts, maybe an SDCard? along with an old school keyboard and mouse and the LEDs on the KB and Mac when the SD Card is read; don’t know how practical that might be, but just the cool factor would certainly be worth it! 
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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #4 on: May 26, 2025, 01:22
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Thingy Verse(?) has lots of 3d printed Mac Like cases for the Raspberry Pi and other single board computers. Several of the Mac SE classic case designs where the floppy drive hole actually holds and SD card. But there are cases looking like the Mac mini, the Trash Can Mac Pro and many others as well.
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1179 System 7, today and forever
Reply #5 on: May 26, 2025, 06:12
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Totally cool, Wove! I think those kinds of projects are the best! 
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ShinobiKenobi
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256 MB Posts: 362 System 7 fan
Reply #6 on: June 11, 2025, 21:56
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I actually liked how my iMac G3 speakers sounded before they crumbled Eventually I want to get replacement speakers for it. It's such a cool little computer.
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