Tag: Macintosh

An Unexpected Entry Into The World Of The Macintosh – Part 3 – Repairing The Power Mac G5

At this point in our story I had a Power Mac G5, the last of the Power PC based Macintosh computers, in my possession. It worked but with a quirk in that it didn’t make the traditional “boot chime” that (until recently) all Macintosh computers had. This bugged me enough that I set out to […]

An Unexpected Entry Into The World Of The Macintosh – Part 1

As far as modern computer usage goes, I’ve always been a Windows guy. Granted, I’ve spent quite a bit of time messing with Linux, and have had dedicated Linux machines from time to time (as secondary machines, anyway) but not since high school have I actually really spent any time with Apple Macintosh machines. Through […]

The Beginning Of The End Of 32 Bit Application Support In MacOS

A few days ago, users of MacOS High Sierra version 10.13.4 (the current release version as of this writing) have started being met with a message upon running a 32 bit application, explaining that the application “is not optimized for your Mac” and states that the developer should update the application to improve compatibility. This […]