Snow Leopard is peak Mac OS X, and there’s plenty of software for it around on https://macintoshgarden.org/
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what causes a USB mac OS X installer to show the “cancel” or “no” 
symbol when i attempt to boot from what should be a 100% compatible installer created from Disk Utility
i’m running OS X Server 10.4.11 and I want to get to 10.6.8 some way somehow… 10.4.7 iMac installer gives the , 10.6.3 installer gives the , but both should work…?
i hold option on boot, i select the USB (it sees it as bootable here), it seems to be working, but then after a minute it switches from apple logo to “no”
found out it’s a 4.2 iMac, the mid-2006 17" 1.83GHz Core Duo, so…kinda shit but cute and fun to mess with.
maybe i screwed something up by putting OS X Server on there which is the only thing which has worked so far 
this ancient HDD fails fsck horribly so i’m going to need to open this fucker up at some point anyway (needs new thermal paste too) unless i can get away with using like a firewire external or something??
e: repairing the internal volume via disk utility repaired some UEFI permissions so maybe it’ll work now, fingers crossed
You can boot from FireWire 400 or 800. You just have to make a valid image.
i think this might be my issue, this is funko pop
how did my OS X server installer work??
actually no this is probably wrong this is for later versions of the os
How was the disk image applied to the disk, and what partition scheme is the disk using? The server OS shouldn’t have anything to do with boot options.
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yeah i think you’re on it exactly
i think it’s all due to using windows in any way shape or form. i think transmac just can’t make bootable images and i need to do everything from the mac side to make it actually boot! that’s why that server install worked… the ones that didn’t work had involved me writing the USB from windows in transmac and then imaging from that instead of using a .dmg
my current approach is trying to go directly from .dmg of snow leopard > disk utility > restore > 8GB USB
it is writing now, i think this should work?
looks like 10.6.8 is also the absolute latest this machine supports, only core 2 duo machines went up to lion at all
I have an original core duo macbook on 10.6.8 and it’s great (bought like the first month they were on the market and still working perfectly in fact), nothing to mind there
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I got my top case replaced five times d/t cracks in the palm rest lol
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I gotta real light touch
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Which is the better buy of the two M1 laptops? 16GB a must?
I learned my brother was sketching math equations in OneNote using a circa 2007 Wacom Bamboo so there’s a dire need for a hand-me-down SB2.
I would get the 16GB unless you have an incredible deal on an 8, that CPU should last a decade easy and it seems like a waste not to get the 16
not a great reason to get the Pro right now imo, it feels like they only shipped an M1 Pro because they didn’t want the Air to outperform it and there’s more to come on that front. the touch bar is not wholly negative but also not really worth going out of your way for.
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A disk utility restore should do the trick
I really love my remarkable 2 for what it’s worth
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Huh! Wild!
I’d much rather try that on the side than an iPad + MacBook combo that makes me feel like I’ve been had
the stylus + case aren’t free anymore like they were during the preorder period which makes it a little bit less incredible valuable but – exactly, the only other really well supported stylus device right now worth buying is the iPad Pro, and that’s pretty $$$ depending on how you plan on using it
it’s pretty fun to draw with:
and as long as you can crack or obtain drm-free ePubs it is very full featured
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I mean I got an iPad Air Gen 4 and stylus and I love that thing for drawing, and I haven’t found an app yet it hasn’t run well?
oh yeah, all of apple’s current hardware is very performant, it’s more that if you already have a Macbook and an iPhone and your investment in those is less negotiable, the iPads sort of refuse to fit into any kind of goldilocks product category. like, do I want the really powerful one that’s still not credible as a laptop replacement, do I want one that feels arbitrarily like a blown up version of my phone, etc. the remarkable is more its own thing and still half the price of the cheapest iPad + pencil you’d want to buy.
Having an iPad + Pencil + Sidecar is the only reason I could imagine myself upgrading the OS on this thing, I want to pretend I’d get way more done if I could work from bed, but I also bet stuff like Aseprite wouldn’t work so well since I am constantly using keyboard shortcuts so it’s best I stay on Yosemite Sam or whatever the fuck this OS is. Plus all that hardware is fucking expensive, I can’t wait to get wealthy enough to love Apple again, I keep threatening to spend $5,000 on that $1,000 monitor stand and by God I will do it someday just to prove I can.
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Procreate rules though and it’s saying something that the potentially unpleasant price of the hardware feels almost entirely justified by the fantastic cheap software