New toys on the horizon...

[feren]

Thanks to tugrik and a host of other people I know (I'm looking at you, Zephyr... as well as you, mindslide) I have finally cracked under pressure like the little technophile I am. Tonight I ordered two beautiful things that are encased in black:

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Comments

[skorzy]

Bought the 60Gb black iPod last November. Don't regret a moment! Buy a screen protector or a well padded case for it as the one included is a joke.

The MB will be mine probably by January. Justifiable business expense. :)

[rustitobuck]

Welcome to the club. The Intel Macs are awesome.

www.darwinports.org if you want to add some extra open-source stuff.

[yakko]

How well does darwinports support Intel? Is it as good as Fink package-wise? Fink have warned me that the Intel portion of their software is a bit half-baked. It's a shame, too; I have a brand-new Mac mini which could use it.

[rustitobuck]

Darwinports builds from sources, so it handles Intel just fine. I think they're working on a binary distribution as well.

The -s flag on the port command forces Darwinports to use sources.

The Intel-based Macs are pretty fast, so a source build doesn't take as long as it did on PPC Macs using Fink.

I used to use Fink, but when I started doing some early Intel projects for work, I ended up changing over to Darwinports.

[tugrik]

ONE OF US
ONE OF US

[jeshala]

An apple ][e case modded to fit a modern computer could be the next step in geek excellence. They did, after all, do it with a nintendo box.

[yakko]

Dead-easy if you use a mini-ITX board. The ][e's case is a freaking cavern. One could even modify the disk][ external cases to house things like the CD/DVD drive, a couple of hard drives, etc...

Getting the attached keyboard to work on the PC is probably a bit of work, though. I'd just leave the internal keyboard for decoration and use a regular keyboard, though I did modify a platinum IIe case for mycroftb to make power (the Return key or spacebar, I forget which), reset (Ctrl-RESET) and hard drive activity (the power light) available from the attached keyboard.

[yotogi]

"back in the day" with an Apple ][e

Playing Oregon Trail at school and snickering because you named someone in the family "poop" just like the rest of us did...