90s PowerBook runs macOS Monterey

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  • Riding around with your laptp doesn’t mean your van runs OS X.While it’s not an actual 520c running Monterey, It’s hardly a pencil box with a clock, nor a van with shag carpet with someone riding around in it using a Monterey capable laptop.
  • For around the same price as the Pi was at the time, he was able to pick up a retina display from an iPad and the internals from a broken MacBook Pro to outfit this retro case.
  • I’ve got a 2400c (aka “Mighty Cat”) here that’s begging for a brain transplant.In the same way that the Texas kid who took apart a digital clock and put the parts in a box “built a clock”, THIS↑.
  • Even though Apple isn’t known for making the most pro-consumer devices ever (at least not since the Apple II), the trope that Apples aren’t upgradable, customizable, or otherwise hackable doesn’t really hold much weight.
  • Yes, I am the person who did the modification.Why do you hate what other people have done, when you can’t do the same?Why is it you are so petty, that you have no equivalent project, but project your inadequacies on other projects?I think it’s an impressive hack.
  • I’ve heard that some RCA Victor radios can be modified to run OS X.Let’s say you have a van, with interior paneling and shag carpeting, a dorm fridge and lava lamp.
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