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Posted by: CC_333 on 2022-06-02 16:42:42
Me too....
When I got my Early 2008 Mac Pro in early 2009, Windows 7 hadn't been released yet and XP was still 100% viable, so I installed that on the second Boot Camp disk (this was before I had enough RAM for VMs to be viable) and used it when I wanted to do something that I couldn't do on Mac OS X at the time (I had software that was Windows only, and Mac versions didn't yet exist).
I did try upgrading to Vista "because I could" (I had the setup DVD from an eMachines tower that decided to die the summer before during a heatwave), and it was actually OK, especially after SP2. I still liked XP better though (and the software I wanted to use didn't run quite as well on Vista), so I rolled back to XP more or less until it went EOL in 2014, at which point I had bought a copy of 7 and upgraded. I subsequently went back and forth between XP and 7 once I learned about the POSReady2009 Windows Update hack for XP, and then I even tried Windows 2000 as recently as 2015, shortly before (or immediately after) I upgraded to an Early 2009 Mac Pro I had upgraded to 2010-standards.
I use mostly macOS now (and of course my Skylake PC can't run XP natively, although 7 does, and it runs fantastically), but I still keep a VM with each version around for fun.
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Posted by: alectrona6400 on 2022-06-03 13:48:47
Vista SP2 was rock solid for me, but I grew up with SP1 and later so I didn't know how RTM felt.
And I'm glad I didn't know. |
Posted by: alectrona6400 on 2022-06-03 13:50:55
Also mind changing the thread name to "Kay's conquests"? Thanks 🙂 |
Posted by: alectrona6400 on 2022-07-06 07:57:09
@Cory5412 Rename to Katheryn's conquests pls
Anyway, I found a ton of computers in a church recycling dumpster. Nothing special, just a bunch of wintel stuff from the late 2000s >.> |
Posted by: Cory5412 on 2022-07-11 08:43:52
@Cory5412 Rename to Katheryn's conquests pls
Apologies for the delay (I just got back into town last night, long story...)
Done! |
Posted by: alectrona6400 on 2022-08-31 08:25:50
Was about to win a japanese auction for a strawberry tray-loader but ultimately lost out.
In other news... last week I picked up a lot of boring x86 hardware. Not much to say about that. |
Posted by: joshc on 2022-08-31 08:46:31
Was about to win a japanese auction for a strawberry tray-loader but ultimately lost out. Maybe for the best. Wouldn't shipping one of those be $$$ ? Also, I'd be wary about shipping an iMac that far... old brittle plastics make up part of the inner chassis of them. |
Posted by: alectrona6400 on 2022-08-31 09:02:02
Yeah... Now I'm just reaching out to see if anyone in the US has a strawberry TL that they are willing to sell. It would be fine if they had other colors, but I really wanted a strawberry iMac. Just speaks to me, y'know!
eBay sellers have them for WAAAAY too much. Don't mind paying shipping of course, but... I hate the "nostalgia tax". |
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