The Perfect Mac
 

Please tell me what the perfect mac for you is specs of the mac or maybe pictures or even Custom macs you have put together?:)

why are you giving away one...JK

one that will run 10.5 all the games i like.

For now, here is my perfect Mac...
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=78079

It's a half-height MacPro with half the slots, half the drive space, but all the configuration ability for processors and memory as its older, big brother.

i must say my perfect mac would be my own custom Design that im working on later this year on ebay i brought a g5 shell that maybe i could do somthing with to make my dream Machine.

sorry not giving away any macs

I designed this a couple of years ago, but it still stands as my ultimate wish in CPU designs...

http://mysite.verizon.net/res752dy/misc/crs.html

mine would be a imac with a better webcam, 1tb of hd space is more than enough, 10.5, quad or even 8 core processor, an nvidia 8800 ( i dont mind having a little thicker mac if it can run crysis) 8gb ram (2x4gb) a hyper drive (hd-dvd writer reader and blu ray) and the ability to play any windows game i want, but without the windows part

The one I can afford...:)
And I must run windows on it also... I think not less than 2 Gigs of RAM for Parallels/BootCamp/other VMs.
Macs are already ideal for me because with virtualization software they let use something of both - PC and Mac - worlds. that's more convenient than common PCs.

any ideas on hd space ram eta eta for my dream machine

1petabyte hd? and how about 1tb ram? lol

it all sounds good im getting started on the machine soon

Were it only half price as well -- and listed on Apple’s Store. :)

I like your rack idea too, Schneb. Great for desktop owners, but I seriously doubt computer producers see themselves well-served by this. At least not Apple...

True, true. But it is fun to dream of MIDI simplicity within the computing world... sigh.

My Freind has a gold mac he wont tell me where he got it from i wish i knew?

Great!:D....

do you any of you rember when os 9 first came out i made mine really fast

Sorry, I'm not a native-speaker, I don't understand what you say:o

just putting the parts in to my custom mac. im debating whether to install tiger or lepeard

15" light weight laptop with multi touch and all the features you would want, wifi, FW 800, ethernet, solid state HD, flexible rotating screen, super drive, at least 3 gigs of RAM if not 4 gigs (for virtual machines), etc etc.

That's the key! Of course, it would essentially be nonvolatile RAM, and would need to be at least in the 200 GB range. The whole idea of a hard drive would then be just a metaphor to make things easy for the user. It is coming, and I hope it's soon! :cool:

I think those are closer than we think. At least I hope so.

I can remember in the early '90s being told by my very computer savvy best friend that we would never need a 1 GB hard drive.

LOL I have 3 GiB of RAM in my C2D MacBook, and my page outs are at over 135,000 with less than four days of uptime! I wouldn't mind having an extra 1021 GiB of RAM. :-)

One thing I've discovered: No matter how much storage space I have, I can always fill it up and need more. A few years ago, a roommate and I quickly filled up his new 1 TB array. It might of taken us a couple weeks before we were back to scrounging for more disk space.

As for the perfect Mac, I would love to see an upgradeable micro tower with a footprint similar to the Mini, but with huge amounts of expansion space (for laptop components), perhaps with the option of 2-8 logic boards and processors set up as an internal Xgrid based distributed computing network, but could also be accessed and controlled individually (and remotely, controlled by another Mac or a future generation iPhone).

:D
You've discovered the first rule of computing: software and data will grow to fill all available space.

im allways clearing space from my mac

So am I.. My Mac is literally full now, less than 1GB space left over. Fortunately I've got a external HD with about 230GB free:D

i use my externel HD to free space on my mac hd. I split my mac hd in to three partitionsx

http://www.wdc.com/global/images/pro...sential_1U.jpg
Somehow I got this great thing that has 500 Gigs... A good thing, I should say.
Works fine under Parallels Desktop (USB)

This green ring looks magical to me=)

It's a fairy ring that leads to a fairy dimension :D
Heres mine ;)
I have a ring too, only it's kinda oval and glows in blue when it's on
Heres a pic of it... Mine is actually a bit lighter then the one in the pic
http://www.simpletechmarketing.com/m.../R2460-web.jpg
:p

Actually your right, we are close, think about it there going to be making 60+ gb flash hd laptops soon. And like 10 years ago, the cpu's were like 500mhz. Now you get that in phones, let alone pc's.

I've got a 500 GB external, a 120 GB external, and a 200 GB internal drive in my MacBook, and I find that I have to be careful not to fill up all the space. (To be fair, almost every file is located on at least two drives.) I haven't even added my iTunes library to my MacBook yet, out of concern for space.I suspect I'll be adding at least a couple TB, externally, within a few months, especially if the prices keep falling.

Fifteen years ago I bought a 486 SX 25 MHz 4 MiB RAM 100 MB HDD, and thought it to be a pretty powerful system. I'm confident in fifteen more years I'll be able to look back at my Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz 3 GiB RAM 200 GB HDD and wonder how I ever accomplished anything with such limited hardware. The MacBook was cheaper, BTW.

Personally i think the MP when configured to the top spec, it ridiculously powerfull, i think that is the only computer which will say up to date with technology for atleast 5-10 years

Almost nineteen years ago, I bought a Mac IIci (25 MHz 68030) with 8 MB of RAM. I still can see the faces of PC users at the time, asking me with stunned looks what I could possibly do with all that memory. At the time it seemed like we were getting close to the perfect Mac. I doubt we're much closer now than we were then, and that's a good thing. There's lots of room to grow.

You young whippersnappers !! :p

I remember my first Mac fondly.

Original Mac Classic, I believe 8 KHz proc speed, 1 MB RAM, and a single 400KB floppy held the entire system, several apps, and all the data associated with the apps. (And MultiPlan wasn't that much inferior to what MS Excel is now!!!)

A few years later, I got my first external hard drive - 5MB total unformatted capacity, and it took almost a full weekend just to format it.

Ah, yes the good old days.:rolleyes:

My first computer was a MicroBee with a tape drive.

It just boggles my mind to try to imagine what the next 10-20-30 years holds.

Most projections one reads in other-than scientific journals tend to describe results which project not too much more than a linear increase in speeds, capacities, etc., etc., not just in computers, but pretty much everything else, too.

I think we'll all look back in 20 years and laugh about how low our expectations were.

The Mac IIci was my first Mac. My first computer was an Apple ][+ with a whopping 64KB of RAM! Of course, it came with 48KB, but I added the extra 16 KB one chip at a time. You had to be careful not to bend the legs!

My first computer was a Pentium III Compaq desktop (I think) and it had 20GB hard drive, 128 MB RAM and a 500MHz processor. I actually still have it. Only it's across the Atlantic, in Romania, in my grandparent's attic... My dad bought it in 2001. It still works pretty smooth. The only thing pretty much has on it is games like Age of Empires II, Empire Earth, Project IGI, Counter Strike, Super Mario PJ 64, Star Craft, War Craft (I loved this game when I was in elementary school), Tazmania GTA III, and others... good times...
My first Mac, is actually my current Mac, which dates from around 2003, has 512 MB RAM, 700 MHz Processor and 20GB storage, and a 250GB external HD, which I bought later. Im probably getting a new Mac next year as this one is getting old, and the high school I'm going to go to requires all students to bring a laptop to glass, so I'm probably going to get a MB or a MBP, or who knows, maybe one of those new sub notebooks that are coming out in January :P

Ever hear of the Sider? For nearly $700 you got 10 MB of hard disk space for the Apple II.

my first PC was an IBM P1 166Mhz computer ran windows 95. My first mac was a performa 6400CDS that was left for broken and I fixed it (with the help of my boss at the time) and it was my introduction to the Mac platform. The first PC I ever built was a celeronA 300 and I still have it and it still boots!

Now at home I use the following

Macbook Pro
HP nc4200 laptop
custom built PC (amd 3500+, 2gig of ram, ATI 9800 pro)
G4 dual 500 - my test machine
G4 MDD - my work horse machine
G5 - Dual 2.5s - my home server

at work I have
new intel mac mini
Macbook pro (it travels with me home and work, i only have one)
G5 - my netboot server i image with in my office
iMac - C2D 17" last generation

My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20, with 20 KiB of RAM and an external cassette storage drive.

It stopped working a couple months after we (my brother and I) got it, by which time Commodore had discontinued the model, so we received an upgrade to a Commodore 64, which was basically the same thing, but with 64 KiB of RAM. I pretty much learned BASIC (most of which I've since forgotten) by typing programs out of the manual that came with it.

We eventually got a couple external disk drives for it.

I spent many, many hours playing Test Drive. You could pick from a Lamborghini Countach, Ferrari Testarossa, a Corvette, a Porsche 911 (I think) or a Lotus Espirit. That game kicked a$$! I'd love to find a Mac version.

Ah, yes - Test Drive !!!!

If/when you find it for Mac, please post the info about where it's available.

i have never owned a pc because i hate them!
my first computer was a mac classic 2 and also i had an amiga 500
then i got a mac quadra my first computer with cdrom drive. http://www.alsplace.com/home/img/mac...Quadra_610.jpg

Test Drive II: The Duel is available for Mac at
http://mac.the-underdogs.info/index....=153&show=game .

BUT..... it's for an old 68k Mac.

Are they hosting it on a 68k Mac? Download speed never went above 10KB/second!

The app runs in Classic, but unfortunately it requires "2 color" mode, and I can't set my display to black & white! :o

cwtnospam .... it was a slow download for me, too. Eventually got the .sit file, but got errors when trying to expand. Never got past that.

I'm trying to download Doom now. Same slow download speed, but I don't think it requires b&w. I'm curious to see how these old games will look on a newer system.

Got Test Drive expanded (by dragging the .sit to the Stuffit icon), finally, but then hit the same wall you did... no 2 color capability.

Doom was surprisingly slow, maybe a few frames/second, and the graphics were a bit messed up with only the upper left corner in real time. The rest would appear when the action slowed down. :( It was interesting to see though.