Old Macs in the New Economy
11:28 pm, November 25th, 2008, Lonnie Lazar
Low End Mac figures their time is now.
With the economy exuding the stench of death and government busy creating trillions of dollars worth of fictional capital to “bail out” some of the nation’s brand-name institutions, Low End Mac believes their philosophy of “use it up, wear it out, and then recycle it” could not be more timely.
“We are the kings of making our computers last, last, and last some more,” writes blogger John Hatchett in a great piece describing how he turned his old iMac into a digital jukebox. With a little bit of drive cloning and hooking the iMac up to his home stereo, he now listens to his iTunes library all over his house.
Via Low End Mac
Posted by Lonnie Lazar in Hardware Hacks, News, Vintage Tech, iTunes | Comment on this article
I suppose when you have you house wired for sound, this makes sense. I, on the other hand, with just a single room, can easily be content with a 2.1 system.
But even if I did have a house wired for sound, would I use an iMac? Could I use an iMac? Probably not. Not only would my (by my standards) modest music collection of 21GB have a hard time fitting on a drive in the iMac, but the CD ripper is far too slow by today’s standards.
Then there are the minor problems of internet access (for track names, Last.fm, etc), and keeping up with syncing any available iPods.
Some things would be easier, because, unless you managed 10.5, you would be limited to itunes 7 and never have to update.
Some things
Dann, on November 26th, 2008 at 10:23 pm