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cornelius_blackfoot
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2 unrelated mac q's:
My dad wants to get rid of my mum's old mac tower. He said it's a G4 but it's in a perforated aluminium case, which I thought means it's a G5? Anyway, the question is, dependent on specs is it useful for anyone? Possibly me? He thinks it runs OS9. I'm not sure. But if it does, can it be made to run OSX? It has a decent looking apple screen of some kind too, aluminium stand, white plastic sides with aluminium wrapping around front to back. It's all a bit vague at the moment because it's surrounded by so much stuff I can't really get to it to turn it on etc.
I am currently using a 2010 15" MBP running El Capitan. I jumped several versions all in one go 6 months ago (thanks for the help @chrisbmx116 ) and it's generally better but slower to start, and a bit slower to start applications. It's still blackscreening ocassionally, but unlike before, it knows when it's done it and automatically restarts. Something is still borked. Something to do with graphics/display triggers it - I try and avoid using space-bar preview when I have apps running as that seems to do it, but there's no consistency.
Tempted by an SSD upgrade, but suspect whatever's broken isn't the HD so also wondering whether to just bite the bullet and buy a new laptop. But the choice completely baffles me.
Maybe I should take the G4/5 tower and screen and actually try and set up a decent workspace at home, I'm an itinerant cafe worker most of the time and most apps is okay but CAD on a laptop is a bit of a fucker.
All this chat about track bars and other magic, I am completely out of the loop...