• Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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    241 year ago

    Apple’s been ignoring professional users for a while now. Folks in sound and video production were the ones who kept them alive in the 90s. But they turned Final Cut Pro into iMovie+ and their professional machines are impossible to upgrade or repair.

    Remember the outrigger cases? Or the G3/G4? Beautiful design, great airflow, and one latch and the whole thing opened up.

    • @jaschen@lemm.ee
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      51 year ago

      Remembering the G3 and G4s had daughterboards? So you can not only change out the memory, but also change out the CPU/GPU. It was a great time to be an Apple fan back then.

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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        31 year ago

        Yeah! IIRC there were even daughterboards with full Intel systems on them so you could run Windows/DOS applications

        • @jaschen@lemm.ee
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          21 year ago

          Oh ya!!! You could swap the IBM board or the Cirrix board. Oh man. Blast from the past.