The PPC Challenge kicked off tonight when the Mac Yak show ended. We encouraged participants to share their stories and emails already started in before the night was over! So this post will showcase some of the setups that will be used in the 2020 PPC Challenge. Thanks for the emails and if anyone else … Read more 2020 PPC Challenge – Day 0
The winner was Nick Bustamante and he sent in his Xserve G5 PSU to be fixed. Happy to report the repair was a success and you can watch it here: We’re feeling generous this holiday season so here’s our gift to a lucky individual: I will repair a Mac logic board or Xserve G5 Power … Read more Win a free Mac board repair or Xserve G5 PSU repair – And the winner is..
In my last article on how to flash the 1,1 Mac Pro to a 2,1 Mac Pro firmware I didn’t mention how to upgrade the operating system. The problem with the 1,1/2,1 (2006-2007) Mac Pro is that the latest officially supported operating system is Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. In this article I will explain … Read more How to install El Capitan on a 1,1/2,1 Mac Pro
Well a few days ago I found a post in the marketplace on Facebook with the ad for a free 2006 Mac Pro. I jumped on the post and sent the guy a PM. Well didn’t hear back for about 4 hours so sent another PM. Still nothing so I went to the original post … Read more Adventures in updating a Mac Pro 1,1 to 2,1
Well just after opening up my 2017 iMac to clean it and re-paste the CPU and GPU I got my new upgraded CPU for my 2009 iMac. I bought this iMac for $150 and it came with a 2.8 GHz i7-860 CPU, 2 TB Hard Drive, and 8 GB of RAM. Pretty good specs for … Read more Upgrading a 2009 iMac CPU
I have had my Mid 2017, 27 inch, iMac for about 2 years now. I play iRacing which is a very intense graphics based game. It taxes the Radeon Pro 570 graphics chip that is in the computer pretty hard, especially when I am streaming to Twitch. Well, lately I was getting lag on my … Read more Fun times in cleaning a modern iMac
Report from Jay March 5, 6 & 7 The report for the last 3 days of the challenge is very short and boring. I did a ton of website work, listened to tunes, handled my email and browsed the web. UT’99 runs great now with the 7200rpm hard drive so I got a few games … Read more The Classic Mac OS Challenge – Day 5, 6 & 7
Report from: Jay March 4th, 2019 Day 4 of the Classic Mac OS Challenge went very smooth. The new hard drive is performing as expected and the iMac is finally behaving as it should. I spent most of my time working on my website and might even make this my default web work rig! Wow … Read more The Classic Mac OS Challenge – Day 4
Report from: Jay March 2nd & 3rd, 2019 Saturday I got some writing down but the fact that Norton FileSaver kept nagging me didn’t sit right with me. I’ve used this software forever and it has never let me down so there must be something going on. Scanned the whole drive again, this time with … Read more The Classic Mac OS Challenge – Day 2 and 3
Report from: Jay March 1st, 2019 Spent most of the day out and about but once I got home it was upgrade and troubleshooting time. Greg T. was kind enough to send me 512MB of RAM for free. Along with the 512MB I had I could max this thing out at 1GB. Also ready were … Read more The Classic Mac OS Challenge – Day 1