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gorefan68 · Feb 26, 2001, 07:05 AM

K. Which computer do you think looks better?

In the left corner, we have the austrailian semi rare Macintosh 5500, in black shorts!

In the right corner, we have the one of a kind, custom 'original' frankeniMac, in green and black tribal!

FIGHT!

>ding ding!<

Cipher13 · Feb 26, 2001, 07:10 AM

Just another shot.
I need to get a digicam so I can take a shot that really does her justice...
Please note these pics are of a 5400. I couldn't find a pic of the 5500 DE, which is more than semi-rare...

Ca$h - just you wait till I get my blue flame or white jolly roger decals on the side of that baby

Cipher13

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nigeljedi · Feb 26, 2001, 10:14 AM

I don't know...the black 5400 looks really cool and gothic, but the tribal print on the iMac is cool too. Hard to decide...

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scaught · Feb 26, 2001, 10:56 AM

my vote?

no offense, but i think the whole tribal thing was "played out" like 6 or 7 years ago. although you dont see much on computers. is that a britney spears poster on your wall ca$h???

the black mac is pretty damned cool.

i vote for the black mac.

iPaul UK · Feb 26, 2001, 11:40 AM

Cipher, this any good to ya?
www.apple-history.com/gallery.html

There are 5500 pics and sepcs here..

RAzaRazor · Feb 26, 2001, 11:44 AM

I'm gonna have to go with Cipher on this one.

The Black Mac is just too cool. It has style. Ca$h's iMac just has some stickers stuck to it. Did you do the Tribal thing with a Sharpie??

gumby5647 · Feb 26, 2001, 12:15 PM

because i know what ca$h's imac has in it..........i vote for the iMac.

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austeros · Feb 26, 2001, 12:31 PM

i have to go with ca$h and the imac... but i am probably biased. what the hell is under your imac?

gorefan68 · Feb 26, 2001, 01:00 PM

a sharpie?!?!? ok, I'm insulted. Read the damn frankeniMac post Raza. It took a long long time to do so, and there is an even MORE intricate design (read PAIN IN THE BUTT) under the handle, but it looks oh soo good. AND- those decals were installed on the INSIDE of the shell. INSIDE. Try to do that. heh.

Ca$h

PS: It's an iDock. I snagged it when I purchased the first parts iMac. Its basically a swivel and a USB/paralell/adb hub.

gorefan68 · Feb 26, 2001, 01:02 PM

Played out? Come on; tis not! Besides, I'm contemplating getting a real tattoo of the same design (I made it)

- Ca$h

RAzaRazor · Feb 26, 2001, 01:15 PM

You're Gonna get a Tatoo of a lime iMac with your Design on it?

Wow Ca$h, you are dedicated!

scaught · Feb 26, 2001, 03:43 PM

Originally posted by gorefan68:
Played out? Come on; tis not! Besides, I'm contemplating getting a real tattoo of the same design (I made it)

- Ca$h

well. its on your mac/going on your body. to each his own. now about that britney spears poster....

scott

Cipher13 · Feb 26, 2001, 04:30 PM

Originally posted by iPaul UK:
Cipher, this any good to ya?
www.apple-history.com/gallery.html

There are 5500 pics and sepcs here..

Thats where I got the second pic from

Thanks

(but even Apple History doesn't have pics of the 5500/250 DE - only the 5400

)

Cipher13

Cipher13 · Feb 26, 2001, 04:31 PM

Originally posted by gumby5647:
because i know what ca$h's imac has in it..........i vote for the iMac.

We're talking based solely on looks.
I'm gonna stick a G3 card in mine and a new video card too, so internals don't really count. Oh yeah, mines more expandable too

Cipher13

gorefan68 · Feb 26, 2001, 04:46 PM

no dude, just the same design. I wouldn't get an imac tattoo, that'd be stupid.

Oh yeah, and thats a calendar. See?

- Ca$h

kaceygones · Feb 26, 2001, 07:16 PM

No offense, Ca$h, but I have to go with Cipher's all black one.
That's too cool. Whoever thought of "Flower Power" over an all black
one, was stupid.

Cipher has my vote.
kacey

noliv · Feb 26, 2001, 07:23 PM

Cipher13 hase my vote too

eep! · Feb 26, 2001, 07:24 PM

ca$h, what is in your imac?
i'm too lazy to go and look, sue me...

i think i remeber something about a game wizard... not sure...
did you install a dvd-rom

c'mon repost the specs here, dammit.

Ruddigger · Feb 26, 2001, 10:07 PM

Hey Ca$h, is your UniMouse glowing?

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Stogieman · Feb 26, 2001, 10:13 PM

Hey Ca$h...you'll have my vote after you post all 12 pictures of that Britney Spears calendar.

sek929 · Feb 26, 2001, 10:35 PM

My vote would go for Ca$h if it wasn't green (orange 333's rule wooo!!). So im going for the cool black Mac.

If only i could make mine black with flames.......

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DocWest · Feb 26, 2001, 10:45 PM

I'm voting for Cipher's black meanie.
mainly because I've seen one those baby's up close.
Director's Edition 5500. Ciph's right, those photos just don't do justice to it.

having everything in Black is just... smooth.

AlbertWu · Feb 27, 2001, 12:05 AM

Eew. Philips Nino. At first glance, I thought it was a cassiopia. Either way, it runs WINDOWS CE! EVIL EVIL EVIL! I am a dedicated Palm Vx user

I should post a pic of my workstation. It has a cdr, 2 phones, a lombard, an "ice" coloured trash can, a flourecent light, and, best of all, a Cube and TiBook Poster above it on the wall!

Currently, it is littered with Outpost.com paraphanalia that I dumped out of the box along with my rio 800.

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What? New iMac? For me?
AUGH! NOT FLOWER POWER! AHHHHHHHH!

AlbertWu · Feb 27, 2001, 12:41 AM

i like my lombard's design, so, ciphers.

im also not extremely fond of weird logos that strike me as Microsoft BackOffice Server (or something thereof)

anyway... on with my life, and waiting for this rio to take its dear sweet time to recalibrate its battery.

t-234 minutes and counting...

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Albert Wu

What? New iMac? For me?
AUGH! NOT FLOWER POWER! AHHHHHHHH!

AlbertWu · Feb 27, 2001, 01:23 AM

Ooh ooh! Vote for me!

heehee. lots of my tech gadgets (including PS2) were gifts to my dad from people that do buisness with his company (like sony.) he didn't need them so I get them

ok...

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Albert Wu

What? New iMac? For me?
AUGH! NOT FLOWER POWER! AHHHHHHHH!

mindwaves · Feb 27, 2001, 01:31 AM

[removed by Apple Legal]

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AlbertWu · Feb 27, 2001, 01:36 AM

heehee

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What? New iMac? For me?
AUGH! NOT FLOWER POWER! AHHHHHHHH!

The Dude · Feb 27, 2001, 02:52 AM

Well, so far our Avid Aussie has 7 votes where as our Cantankerous Ca$h has three votes.

Cipher gets my vote, black is so damn cool. Simple, elegant and yet deeply moving. Make that 8 votes for Cipher.

malson · Feb 27, 2001, 02:53 AM

Sorry but I have to go with Cipher here. First, the black Macs do rule. MacTV nostalgia and all that. Second, I just can't vote for someone who has nothing better to do with their time than take apart their iMac and stick some "design elements" on the inside of the case. And last, a Britney Spears calender? Please...

[Make that 9 for Cipher]

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Ca$shlessSociety · Feb 27, 2001, 08:26 AM

Britney? Ugh! Gotta go with some more testosterone.

How about...

Flower-power iMac! with a calendar of her uncle, Shake Speares, hangin over it?!?

Flower-power REWWWWLLLLESSSSS!!!

quitbanningme68 · Feb 27, 2001, 03:33 PM

Bla, you guys suck. Lime green AND black are much cooler than just plain black. Plain black reminds me of acers.

- Ca$h <---- not banned, so suck it!

maxelson · Feb 27, 2001, 04:11 PM

Originally posted by quitbanningme68:
Bla, you guys suck. Lime green AND black are much cooler than just plain black. Plain black reminds me of acers.

- Ca$h <---- not banned, so suck it!

Hey Guys! He's over here!

denim · Feb 27, 2001, 04:19 PM

This is a funny contest. "Who can be the biggest geek?" Good thing I don't take a picture of my setup. It'd have to be a panoramic QT movie.

maxelson · Feb 27, 2001, 04:34 PM

Originally posted by denim:
This is a funny contest. "Who can be the biggest geek?" Good thing I don't take a picture of my setup. It'd have to be a panoramic QT movie.

OK. If it's going to be a geekfest. No cameras allowed where I work, so we'll just run through the setup:
Dual G4 standard config except for the 512MB RAM, 9.1. Hooked into a Mitsubishi Diamond+ 9I 19" Monitor. My main machine.
G3 350, 2 6 GB drives, 320MB RAM running OSX Peanut Butter for developer stuff. It shares a 21" monitor with:
A Gateway Gp6 400- 256 MB RAM running Winders 2k Pro- fes-shun- al. A neccesary evil. Need it for AS400.
A PowerCenter Pro 225 for burning.
A PM 7500/100 for testing purposes.
I'll be asking for my Ti as soon as I finish typing the proposal. I am prepared for them to say "no", but I'm hoping they won't.
I'm a geek.
My home setup is far more modest. a rev. a iBook w/ 256MB RAM, a Beige G3 266, 320 MB RAM, 32MB ATR Rage Orion for game-age, extra 20 Gig Hard Drive, external firewire drive hooked in to share images, movies with the wife on her machine. I'm slightly less of a geek at home. Big picture of Mount Washington above the whole setup.

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Norm1985 · Feb 27, 2001, 05:10 PM

Want my HOME setup?

Computer 1

Power Macintosh G4 (Gigabit Ethernet)

2x 450MHz G4 processors
512MB RAM
8x DVD-ROM/32x CD-ROM
32x Read/8x Write/4x Rewrite FireWire CD-RW
HD 1: 30 gigabyte 7200RPM ATA/66
HD 2: 6 gigabyte 5400RPM ATA/33
17" Apple Diamondtron Flat Screen CRT
Sony Stereo Speakers
ATi RADEON 32MB DDR AGP
PCI 1: SoundBlaster Live! sound card
Operating System: Mac OS X client/Mac OS 9.1

Computer 2

Power Macintosh G3 (Yosemite/Blue and White)

300MHz G3 processor
0MB RAM
32x CD-ROM
17" Apple Diamondtron Flat Screen CRT
El Capitan Apple Mono Speaker
ATi Rage 128 16MB SDRAM PCI
Operating System: None

Computer 3 (getting within likely April)

Macintosh PowerBook G4 (Titanium)

400MHz G4 processor
384MB RAM
6x DVD-ROM/32x CD-ROM
HD: 20 gigabyte 4200RPM ATA/66
15.2" Apple Portable Flat Panel
Built-In PowerBook G4 speakers
ATi Rage Mobility 128 8MB SDRAM
Operating System: Mac OS X client/Mac OS 9.1

Network-
1.5 megabit down/768k up DSL
Router spliting Computer 1 and in the future 3
Hewlett Packard OfficeJet 600 Printer

My Ol' Setup

Computer 1

Macintosh Performa 6200CD/75

75MHz 603 PowerPC processor
16MB RAM
4x CD-ROM
HD: 1 gigabyte unknown IDE
15" Apple Shadow Mask CRT
Roland Speakers (I believe)
1MB DRAM on motherboard graphics
Slot: Apple TV Tuner Card
Operating System: Macintosh System 7.5 to
Mac OS 8

Computer 2

Samsung (don't remember model) Wintel laptop

75MHz Pentium I processor
32MB RAM
8x CD-ROM
HD 1: 2GB unknown speed/IDE
13" (I believe) Samsung (unknown model) LCD
Roland Speakers (I believe)
Unknown VRAM/graphics chipset
Operating System: Windows 3.11, 95, and 98 First Edition

14.4/28.8 kilobit modem/TCI/AT&T Cable Modem
Apple Color StyleWriter 2400 Printer
Hewlett Packard OfficeJet 600 Printer

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Mac OS for productivity.
UNIX for stability.
Palm OS for mobility.
Windows for solitaire.

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Norm1985 · Feb 27, 2001, 05:11 PM

LOL Sorry for no picture. By the way, I vote for Cipher's system. I like all black.

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Mac OS for productivity.
UNIX for stability.
Palm OS for mobility.
Windows for solitaire.

Don Pickett · Feb 27, 2001, 05:13 PM

One vote for cipher.

One vote for spending three days snowboarding in Massachusetts and not having to think about a computer.

denim · Feb 27, 2001, 05:15 PM

I thought these were home systems. Not so? I'm not including my work setup. As a system admin, it wouldn't be fair.

maxelson · Feb 27, 2001, 05:21 PM

Originally posted by denim:
I thought these were home systems. Not so? I'm not including my work setup. As a system admin, it wouldn't be fair.

Oh, the toys!!! Where you working? Mac stuff?

maxelson · Feb 27, 2001, 05:23 PM

Originally posted by Don Pickett:
One vote for cipher.

One vote for spending three days snowboarding in Massachusetts and not having to think about a computer.

I hear ya. I haven't even got an ISP setup at home yet (moved in 4 mos ago).
Where you boarding? Wa- Wa- Wachusett? I live right there.

Norm1985 · Feb 27, 2001, 05:52 PM

It was actually 2E14 and 1H39 (both builds of Public Beta). They do work with Mac OS 9.1, except for Classic. And soon it will be Mac OS X client 1.0.

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Mac OS for productivity.
UNIX for stability.
Palm OS for mobility.
Windows for solitaire.

DBursey · Feb 27, 2001, 09:29 PM

...But seriously folks, back to the Ca$h vs. Cipher mac wars. I like Cipher's 5500; very cool looking machine.

Ca$h wins my vote. Nice creative decal design; extra points for applying them inside the shell. Nice job!

Fyre4ce · Feb 27, 2001, 11:04 PM

What's with the Apple Legal thing? Or is it illegal for mindvision to even tell me what it was?

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mindwaves · Feb 27, 2001, 11:18 PM

Mindvision??????????? I am seriously insulted. Well, not really. Well, the truth is that I did post some information and I decided that I did not want to post it anymore so I removed it. Since I have a very slight sense of humor, I said that Apple Legal removed it so there!

Besides, I secretly work for Apple and at next MacWorld they are going to release [removed by Apple Legal]

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poocat · Feb 28, 2001, 12:46 AM

go cipher...

it just looks kickin'.

poocat.

machappy · Feb 28, 2001, 01:10 AM

Cent$,
does that sub woofer make your screen screwy? it seems so close.

i vote for the man in black. cipher13.

all black computer rule. I owned a Bell Labs Apple II that was black. I turned it into a blue box and phreaked conference calls (from my house no less)till my ear was blue. if any of you remember those days start a thread...Pirates Cove? Sprinting Cat? The Cat meow. if your saying WTF, nevermind.

quitbanningme68 · Feb 28, 2001, 05:01 AM

Originally posted by machappy:
Cent$,
does that sub woofer make your screen screwy? it seems so close.

i vote for the man in black. cipher13.

all black computer rule. I owned a Bell Labs Apple II that was black. I turned it into a blue box and phreaked conference calls (from my house no less)till my ear was blue. if any of you remember those days start a thread...Pirates Cove? Sprinting Cat? The Cat meow. if your saying WTF, nevermind.

Ground Zero eh? Figures. I think the gamma rays have affected your brain. Why?

1. You can't spell at all
2. You like black better than black and green

-Ca$h

machappy · Feb 28, 2001, 11:18 AM

cent$,
It was that sad excuse for art you scrawled on the side that really swayed my vote. When I read that you thought that design was worthy of a tattoo I really felt sorry for you. That tribal thing has indeed come and gone. To put it on your arm this late in the game will no doubt give your friends second hand embarrassment. I hope for your sake you reconsider this very permanent decision, but actually this might be perfect for a clown like you.."duh, look at me I'm soooo cutting edge, lets go to a rave. Wait, adjust your pants so I can see your boxers..." ----you're such a lemming.

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scaught · Feb 28, 2001, 11:55 AM

Originally posted by machappy:
cent$,
Its was that sad excuse for art you scrawled on the side that really swayed my vote. When I read that you thought that design was worthy of a tattoo I really felt sorry for you. That tribal thing has indeed come and gone. To put it on your arm this late in the game will no doubt give your friends second hand embarrassment. I hope for your sake you reconsider this very permanent decision, but actually this might be perfect for a clown like you.."duh, look at me I'm soooo cutting edge, lets go to a rave. Wait, adjust your pants so I can see your boxers..." ----you're such a lemming.

[This message has been edited by machappy (edited 02-28-2001).]

hahahahaha. machappy is my new best friend.

quitbanningme68 · Feb 28, 2001, 08:01 PM

Originally posted by machappy:
cent$,
It was that sad excuse for art you scrawled on the side that really swayed my vote. When I read that you thought that design was worthy of a tattoo I really felt sorry for you. That tribal thing has indeed come and gone. To put it on your arm this late in the game will no doubt give your friends second hand embarrassment. I hope for your sake you reconsider this very permanent decision, but actually this might be perfect for a clown like you.."duh, look at me I'm soooo cutting edge, lets go to a rave. Wait, adjust your pants so I can see your boxers..." ----you're such a lemming.

[This message has been edited by machappy (edited 02-28-2001).]

Gee, somebody has PMS. Unfortunatly, your low intellect made you have quite a few WRONG assumptions. I don't 'sag' my pants, I'm white, and I know I'm white, so I wouldn't do that. And no, tribal tattoos aren't cutting edge, but they are very hip (take a look at MTVs spring break or something, more and more people are getting them, why? Because they are cool), and the beauty of tribal is I think it gets back to the basics. One color, and a design that holds such power and energy.

Take a nap and pull the stick outta your ass turd burglar.

- Ca$h