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Return of the Mac: more mac adventures

craig-hissettCraig Hissett wrote 05/10/2019 at 00:36 • 2 min read • Like

A lot has happened since I put together the Mac Pro a week or two ago.

I filled the Mac Pro with 32gb of ram from an old server at work, so it was running beautifully. However, as it was it was too big to get any kind of wife approval certification, i had to think of something to downsize my foray into the Mac world. So, after a few days of looking I managed to swap it for a few broken iMacs (mid 2011). After combining parts from the three machines I had a working 21.5" imac with 8gb of RAM and a 1tb hard drive.

As it stands I've got it up to High Sierra, and its worming great. I've messed sriu d with boot camp and got it dual booting Windows 10, even though bootcamp software for that machine would originally only allow a win7/8 install. Adding some updated boot camp supporting drivers to the Windows 10 install tomorrow to complete that bad lad.

Also toniggt I have almost completed another Mac Project - turning an old bricked Dell Latitude into a Hackintosh.

It's running brilliantly, after a few days of tweaking and configuring. Just need to add a supported wifi card and then its a fully fledged MacBook Pro, as far as it's concerned :)

Up until a few weeks ago I wouldn't entertain owning Apple products as I've never been a fan, but these last two weeks of building and playing has been such an eye opener. I'm pretty much going to be shifting all my music making, coding and work projects to my two mac devices, instead of a tonne of old Windows laptops and a handful of Linux boxes.

Can't wait!

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