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EveryMac.com is the complete guide to every Macintosh, iPod, and Mac clone in the world, with technical, configuration, and pricing info.
MaxUpgrades hardware upgrades for Apple hardware.

YouTube - Surprise! My Dad Revisits Our First Mac from 1990 on 2022-11-12, by Mac84.

iMac

Mac Pro

Running Mac OS Sonoma on a Trash Can Mac Pro? Easier and cheaper than you think! on 2024-01-08 by Jon Obst.
Can This Decade-Old Mac Pro Compete With Apple Silicon? on 2022-11-11, by This Does Not Compute.
Installing Linux on Apple's Stupid Trashcan exploring Bazzite Linux on a Trashcan Mac Pro, on 2023-09-09, by Action Retro.
The Ultimate Linux Gaming Trashcan on 2024-09-24, by Action Retro. (Spoiler alert: Windows 10 and the AMD driver can use CrossFire to use both D[3,5,7]00 GPUs.

MacBook Air

MacBook Pro

MacBook Pro Fan Daemon (mbpfan) for Linux:

Patch for GitHub - anak10thn/ign-mbpfan to work with newer Linux Kernels that have moved the CPU temp sensor file:

--- src/mbpfan.c.original                                                                      
+++ src/mbpfan.c                                                                               
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@                                                                              
     t_sensors *s = NULL;                                                                      
 
     char *path = NULL;                                                                        
-    const char *path_begin = "/sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/temp";                         
+    const char *path_begin = "/sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon1/temp";            
     const char *path_end = "_input";                                                          
 
     int path_size = strlen(path_begin) + strlen(path_end) + 2;   

Power Mac

G3

G4

G5

Sonnet G5 Jive allows adding an extra three hard drives and a SATA controller to a Power Mac G5.

Quadra

Twentieth Anniversary Mac (TAM)

DOOM, but BeOS on 2023-04-09, by Action Retro.

apple/hardware.txt · Last modified: 2025/05/05 17:16 by bas

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