Thats the plan for later on i kinda wanna start with the Gamecube first because i currently have more games i wanna play on it and i have alot of the hardware here already. (Controllers and Memory Cards for example the only thing i lack is the Gamecube itself)
That is a serious project that will require some creative ways of mounting the parts. Having a 3D printer would probably help with that. What I want to do eventually is get a 3D printer and make a custom Raspberry Pi case. Much easier project but would still be fun.
I seemed to have accidentally bought a fully functioning Apple MacBook (late 2006, white). It was listed on Ebay "as is for parts: missing HDD and RAM" I thought fine, its a little rough. I ordered it and some parts. Low and behold, the thing comes in, its extremely clean, has max RAM, and has a functioning 60GB hard drive. Installed Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on it and now I have a $35 knock around piece for when I need a laptop and don't want to use either my Inspiron Gaming 15 or my pride and joy: Early 2009 MacBook Pro 17". Wonderful.
How much is max ram? I have a 2010 macbook air but 2gb of ram (1.75 as 0.25 goes to the GPU) struggles on web browsing... i think it'd be ok if it has 4gb tbh.
They officially max out at 2GB for 2006 models. Technically they can support up to 4, but can only use 3 and a bit despite being a 64-bit system.
That means that its only using 32-bits of the memory addresses which for a 64-bit system is... really weird. I wonder if it is using 64-bit pointers, and ignoring the other bits or if its some sort of weird 64-bit word size with 32-bit memory addressing.
This is likely a chipset limitation. My 2006 HP laptop is like this too. 3.5gb addressable, and it ends up being 3.35 once the GPU gets its fair share of ram. Still 3.35 > 2gb. and DDR2 is cheap. (at least it was when i upgraded that laptop).
Oh right, chipset limit makes sense because the memory controller was built into that instead of the CPU like how it is now (on x86-64 CPUs anyways). I have a computer from 2004 that can address 8 GB of memory. The thing is kind of a weird one though. PowerPC G5 dual-processor.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Those old C2D mobile chipsets were really weird in the mid-2000's. I'll have to do some experimenting, it'll officially support up to Lion so I bet I can hack something vaguely modern onto it.
Mmm, yes, so it seems that I am an idiot (no surprise). The MacBook is, indeed, not a Core 2 Duo. It's a Core Duo. What does this mean? Imagine making a lovely Mint Julep using your favorite whiskey and the purest of crushed ice (so 2 cores), but come to find out you've forgotten the mint, which is the whole point of the drink (Core Duo is 32-bit only). It's the fastest Core Duo offered at 2.0GHz, but that's like saying Budweiser is the best American beer (it's not, that honor goes to Rolling Rock for mass produced stuff). It's the best at being the worst.
My new NAS hardware kicked the bucket the other day. Less than a week after I bought it, my SuperMicro X9SRH-7F succumbed to the problems with generator power. I think. This sucks.
I am an idiot. I have this dell Inspiron 600m(damn fine gaming machine) that wouldn’t turn on, so I took it apart to see if a capacitor had been knocked over or something. Just as I thought I was beat, I learned(with a bit of googling) that they have faulty batteries, so after trying with no battery Andy only the wall connection, it booted up(also haha funny joke trump RAM haha). The specs are: Intel centrino(high performance) Ati GPU I also decided I like torturing myself so I made a cooler/fan housing out of LEGO for my Ati rage.
I’ve never wanted to build a pc more in my life. Using pico itx parts and an sff gpu, I could build a fully working pc in this case
