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  • MorphOS on and older iMac?

    From Smooth@10:103/11.1 to All on Wednesday, May 04, 2022 14:20:17
    Can MorpOS be installed on an older iMac? I just found this site that
    sells older iMac's for cheap. It's a site called "Woot" which is an Amazon company that sells refurbished products.

    Woot! (refurbished iMacs):
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    https://bit.ly/3KDXGZS

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  • From Exodus@10:103/23 to Smooth on Wednesday, May 04, 2022 18:37:49
    Can MorpOS be installed on an older iMac? I just found this site that sells older iMac's for cheap. It's a site called "Woot" which is an Amazon company that sells refurbished products.

    I wouldn't take a Mac if someone PAID me to take it. Or an iPhone for that matter.

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  • From esc@10:102/7 to Smooth on Wednesday, May 04, 2022 18:36:27
    Can MorpOS be installed on an older iMac? I just found this site that sells older iMac's for cheap. It's a site called "Woot" which is an Amazon company that sells refurbished products.

    I don't think any of these are PowerPC iMacs. MorphOS doesn't work on Intel hardware. If you can find a G4 iMac, you might be in good shape, though.

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  • From esc@10:102/7 to Exodus on Wednesday, May 04, 2022 18:37:46
    I wouldn't take a Mac if someone PAID me to take it. Or an iPhone for that matter.

    Wow, you're so brave

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  • From Exodus@10:103/23 to Esc on Wednesday, May 04, 2022 23:00:12
    Wow, you're so brave

    ahhaha

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  • From Smooth@10:103/11.1 to Exodus on Thursday, May 05, 2022 09:04:58
    On 04 May 2022, Exodus was ranting the following...
    I wouldn't take a Mac if someone PAID me to take it. Or an iPhone for that matter.

    Hahah. I used to be in the same mindset till 2011 when I started developing mobile friendly web application and began competing in my first hack-a-thons. Having to test the display of responsive applications on mobile/smart devices gives you a greater appreciation of multiple system types and OSes.

    I've worked at several large companies that hosted everything in the cloud and a couple of them weren't entirely Microsoft dev shops. Several of them had hybrid dev groups such as LiveNation/Ticketmaster and NBCUniversal (eOnline/Esquire). I used to be a die-hard Microsoft cheerleader till I found out I make more money to be familiar with more then just Windows and Windows Dev. For everyone that was doing dev on Linux/Unix, LiveNation provided us with
    Macbook Pros to dev on. Many don't know, but MacOS is a Unix based environment
    and many of our dev/build/test tools ran faster on MacOS vs Windows.

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  • From Smooth@10:103/11.1 to esc on Thursday, May 05, 2022 09:05:41
    On 04 May 2022, esc was ranting the following...
    I don't think any of these are PowerPC iMacs. MorphOS doesn't work on Intel hardware. If you can find a G4 iMac, you might be in good shape, though.

    Ahh that's right. I totally forgot about the PowerPC requirements. :D

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