Category Archives: Joe’s Garage

Dumpster Denied

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Joe

I’m celebrating an anniversary of sorts this month.

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More thoughts on the Hackintosh

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Joe_Williams
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Taking it for a spin…

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Joe_Williams

It could be argued that building a CustoMac mini represents a false economy in that time is money and a lot of time and frustration could have been saved by just going to the Apple store and buying one of … Continue reading →

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Did it work?

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Joe_Williams

Last time I told you about assembling the PC from the list of parts provided by Tonymacx86. I have worked on and torn apart Macs and PCs before, but this was the first one I ever built. There was some … Continue reading →

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Assembling the PC that will become a Mac

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Joe_Williams

Originally, I thought I would painstakingly and carefully document the construction of this small PC and this post would be a visual guide to newbies such as myself. That did not happen. The obsession with the process and eagerness to … Continue reading →

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Get a Hack

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Joe_Williams

I finally took the plunge and built a Hackintosh. For those of you not in the know, a Hackintosh is an assemblage of PC parts that will run the Mac operating system with the help of a few hacks and … Continue reading →

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The Dual G4 1.25 GHz Power Mac

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Joe_Williams

Recently I told you of the sad passing of my son’s Gigabit Ethernet G4 Power Mac and last week we decanted its replacement. Today, I’ll take a closer look at the Dual G4 also known as the Mirror Door Drive.

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Unboxing A Dual G4 Power Mac

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Joe_Williams

Last week I told you how the old G4 Gigabit Ethernet went to meet it’s maker. It’s probably in Computer Heaven now where Steve Jobs is complaining that the fans in it are too loud. I was going to buy … Continue reading →

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Bidding Farewell to a Power Mac G4 Gigabit Ethernet

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Joe_Williams

With a sad heart, I bring news of the passing of a faithful friend – my son’s G4 PowerMac Gigabit Ethernet. Sniff!

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Tearing Apart The Mac Mini

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Joe_Williams

We interrupt this program so that I can finally get around to upgrading the 2006 Mac Mini of mine. I bought a larger, faster hard drive a while back and I thought the New Year’s weekend would be a good … Continue reading →

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The First Computer I Owned

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Joe_Williams

This is a follow-up to I was a PC Before I Was a Mac which I wrote back in May. It was about the first computer I bought which was a PC and not a Mac. I had used a … Continue reading →

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Replacing the Kid’s eMac

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Joe_Williams

Back in 2003, I purchased a G4 eMac 1 Ghz new, and I loved it. It was my first OS X machine, and it was the first computer I really enjoyed using. The Macs I used before which I still … Continue reading →

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The G5 iMac is DEAD! Long Live the G5 iMac!

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Joe_Williams

This is a followup to last week’s article where I performed an autopsy on a six-year-old iMac that had a number of ruptured capacitors. Like a low-rent Frankenstein movie, I ended up transplanting the brains from one computer into the … Continue reading →

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Bad Caps! Talking ‘Bout Bad Caps!

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Joe_Williams

Recently I was given the task of hopefully resuscitating a 17″ G5 iMac that is roughly 6 years old, and, in classic fashion, was working just fine until something weird started to happen according to its user. The user is … Continue reading →

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