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Reclaiming My Creative Life With Vintage Macs: The Cigar Box Mini Stack
After months of tinkering, I finally built the Murciélago Mini-Stack: a 2010 Mac mini sitting on top of a 2022 M1 Mac mini, all resting on a cigar box. Two Macs, one keyboard, and zero subscriptions. Here’s how I reclaimed my creative life with vintage hardware I already own. Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Illustration, Joe's Garage, Vector Illustration
Tagged 2010 Mac mini, Adobe CS4, Affinity Designer, Apple hardware, cigar box, desktop publishing, IKEA hack, KVM switch, M1 Mac mini, Mac Mini, Mac stack, Murciélago Mini-Stack, no subscription, retro Mac, Snow Leopard, subscription free, vintage computing, vintage Mac
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