The SSD the IDE adapter that holds it into place, its enclosure, and the hard drive it replaced. But Mac OS X is an operating system that requires a whole lot of virtual memory, which requires something that can handle a lot of files moving around at all times, like a hard drive-or what I ultimately chose, a solid state drive. If I was using a machine that was based on DOS or Amiga, perhaps I would have gone with something based on CompactFlash, which is directly based on the same IDE and ATA standards of many hard drives.
And Plan B was kind an interesting byproduct of the current state of storage. Even after booting into the installer on my USB drive (more on that below) I still had to figure out how to get the operating system on a drive.Īs a stopgap solution, I wanted to install Mac OS X on an external hard drive-but that’s not something that was supported at the time with USB. After I got the power cable ($14, shipped) and plugged the thing in, I heard some very loud clicking noises that made me worry for the state of the drive itself. The reason was the hard drive, which had been somehow damaged in a way that rendered the old disk useless. There were no guarantees the thing would even power on, let alone work well enough that I could actually work for longer than five minutes.īut it took a little bit to get going, either way. Let me preface this by saying: I got really lucky with this purchase. Everything I needed to do to bring this Mac Mini back to life The Mac Mini, as it appeared at my doorstep.
Full disclosure: Where possible, tonight’s episode was produced using the machine I bought on eBay. Today’s GIF is the video of the Mac OS X intro, as was used in version 10.5, Leopard. And now, I’m telling you all about my experience in today’s Tedium. After some research and some careful bidding on eBay, I bought a damaged one-for $10, plus shipping. I gave myself some parameters, however: It had to be as cheap as possible, and if it was broken, I had to fix it. My acquisition of this product was a total impulse buy: After reading up on the Mac Mini G4 and remembering that it was the first computer I ever owned that I had not purchased refurbished or used (though not my first Mac), I decided to relive those days by buying a new one. I was trying to figure out if I could revive a Genuine Apple Product™ that had seen better days. But as I was working out the details on that piece, I had a not-so-secret hobby that was taking up quite a bit of my time. Today in Tedium: Last week, I sent a piece extolling the joys of the Hackintosh, a concept that is very much a response to the demise of “the good old days” of Apple.
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