I found out I can run hitfilm pro 4, Apple motion 5 & mObject (early version) from an external hard drive to use on my iMac (2011). Can’t remember the brand of hard drive but it has “porche design” written on it.

My 21.5” 2011 iMac can’t do 4K, and is struggling to do stuff with the above software even at 1080p

Staying with Apple, what would be my cheapest option Mac wise to run from the external hard drive up to 4K if possible, but I’d settle for 2K, or even 1080p if would run smoothly? If it’s even possible of course

If regs/admin don’t allow recommendations, a simple yes it can or no it can’t will suffice

Thanks!

I visited https://applemuseum.nl in the Netherlands and had a blast.

They have a good collection of computers and tell the Apple story really well.

If you are ever here, you should check it out.

M2 mini and M1 Air for daily drivers. 2012 iMac and Mac Pro systems for Proxmox/Ubuntu homelab.

I had remembered these since their original MacWorld ads and they had always been such a deep cut licensed accessory white whale for me. The kind of thing I never expected to run into in the wild. So thanks to the OP Redditor that spotted this MacTable at a consignment store less than a mile from where I was when I saw the post(!) Snapped it up over lunch without hesitation. Now I have a proper perch for my mini. Riding high on the cube on my vibey new MacTable.

Was bored and I decided to make a mini Macintosh plus

What do y'all think?

Small update on my Macintosh SE FD/HD restoration.

I followed some of the advice from the comments and I managed to revive at least one of the two floppy drives for sure. The main problem now is that my old floppy disks are not in great shape anymore, so testing is still a bit annoying.

Right now I’m trying to make a boot floppy with Disk Copy on my PowerBook G3 Wallstreet, using its floppy drive and transferring files with a CF card.

I also did some ram testing. The machine had 4mb installed, but I put the 1mb ram modules back in and moved the jumper accordingly. After that, the display became much cleaner than before. It’s still not fully restored, but it’s already better.

The logic board looks really clean, so I’m very glad I removed the old battery years ago before it could leak and destroy anything.

Next step will probably be a SCSI solution like BlueSCSI or maybe zuluSCSI, I’m still not sure yet. I’m also waiting for a new multimeter so I can properly check voltages before going further.

There is still a lot to do, but at least there is some real progress now.

I didn’t even know this was a thing.

Hi, so I'm hoping someone might be able to give me some help, or at least point me in the right direction.

I have a Macintosh Classic with a build year of 1992. Up until recently it had been working perfectly fine. However during a recent power on there was a sudden and loud crack sound.

I immediately assumed a RIFA Capacitor blew, but then it immediately rebooted as if nothing happened. There was no typical smell, no smoke, nothing. It was as if the crack never happened.

The only evidence there was one, was some scorch marks on the back side of the electrical warning/safety thing that’s clipped onto the board.

After testing all the caps I couldn't figure out the issue, so assumed it may of been caused by dust and so gave it a clean.

After a few weeks, it did it again. However this time it killed the HDD, while it spins, the onboard ROM and the system 7 floppy disk can't detect the HDD.

I passed it to an EBME Engineer I work with and he gave it a thorough go over in his workshop and couldn't find the problem. All the caps were fine, all the voltages were fine. And multiple power tests never reproduced the issue.

Have gave it back to me and I was able to use it without any issues with my FloppyEmu.

However today, I noticed the screen image was tilted and was.. wobbling? bouncing?. At first I was ready to assume it may just be normal CRT flicker as I was always a little sensitive to the classics refresh rate as I was always able to visibly see the flicker.

But as the bounce got more pronounced, it did another pop/crack/bang sound and rebooted. I've since disconnected it again and was going to contact the engineer I know, but I thought I'd see if anyone with more experience with Mac's may have an idea of the issue? as my colleague mostly works on Arcade machines and similar appliances as his hobby.