Making it a Mac
The pile of PC parts that runs Mac’s operating system is referred to as a Hackintosh because you have to Hack the system with a few software workarounds in order for the software to cooperate with the...
View ArticleBoot Error!
Having completed my buddy Dan’s mighty Customac Pro, I decided to turn my attentions to my smaller but still wonderful Customac Mini and show it a little tender loving care in the form of a brand new...
View ArticleNew Home for the Hackintosh
My Hackintosh or Customac Mini as the folks over at TonyMacX86 call it was assembled inside of an Apex MI-008 Mini-Itx Case that included a 250W power supply and not a lot of room to spare. As I was...
View ArticleYeah, but is it a real Mac?
I built my first Hackintosh a little over a year ago, and I recently upgraded it to the latest operating system for Apple, but it’s always been bothering me whether it was a real Mac. It is certainly...
View ArticleOkay — the third and a half time!
I was upgrading and swapping parts and watching videos and plotting and planning, and what I thought was going to be a pretty good setup for new or at least newish rigs for my son and me didn’t quite...
View ArticleA Hiccup
My Independence Day project didn’t work out as I hoped. It probably seems like overkill, but I bought this Corsair Carbide Spec-01 case to house the Mini-Itx motherboard which is essentially the heart...
View ArticleAffinity Designer
I’ve been playing with a ten-day trial of what for me is going to be the Adobe Illustrator killer. It’s called Affinity Designer. Vector art programs have never really been fun. A lot of the graphic...
View ArticleSwimming in the Low End
I just purchased a used 2009 Mac Pro to use as a replacement for my recently departed dual G5 Mac Pro which I also purchased used. It served me well as a graphic design and digital illustration...
View ArticleOK, Now We’re Done
With the addition of 16GB of RAM (four matched chips of 4GB RAM) my used/new-to-me Mac Pro is ready to go! As I recently wrote, my G5 Mac Pro which the world and Apple’s marketing department has...
View ArticleHonest Abe Lincoln
I came across this famous photographic portrait of Honest Abe and decided to play with Adobe Photoshop’s new Neural Filters. With the touch of a button and maybe a two second delay, black and white...
View ArticleThinking Differently
We were in the market for a new computer and I was hearing great things about the current Mac mini with Apple’s new M1 chip. The video reviews I watched were mostly enthusiastic for Apple’s entry level...
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