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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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