These benchmarking tests focus on CPU and memory performance, and show that select new MacBook Pro models are about 3x faster than some of last years models. The new ‘low-end’ base MacBook Pro 2011 13″ model is just as fast as last years top-end MacBook Pro modelsīelow are some GeekBench scores for the MBP 2011 refresh… to put these numbers in perspective, my MacBook Pro 13″ 2010 with 8GB RAM and a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo scores a 3128 in GeekBench:.The new top of the line MacBook Pro 2011 is faster than the existing Mac Pro desktop.eMaculation has pretty deep guides (Opens in a new window) for all of the different emulation permutations, and developer Travis Lawrence did a very patient, thorough guide to setting up SheepShaver (Opens in a new window) from soup to nuts.įor more, check out my thoughts on 27 Years Creating With the Mac. There are guides, of course, but they can get pretty baroque. However, both are much more complicated to set up and run than minivMac. Basilisk II is best for emulating System 7 and 8 SheepShaver, for emulating System 8 and 9.
There are two other major Mac emulators out there, Basilisk II and SheepShaver.
MYTHOUGHTS FOR MAC ANDROID
(A Mac II on an Android tablet? That's cool.)
MYTHOUGHTS FOR MAC FULL
There's a version of MinivMac for jailbroken iPhones (Opens in a new window), which really bring things full circle, as well as Mini vMac Mac Plus (Opens in a new window) and Mac II emulators (Opens in a new window) for Android devices. A much easier option is to just download MinivMac-compatible disc images of games from eMaculation's System 6 Hell (Opens in a new window).
MYTHOUGHTS FOR MAC HOW TO
MinivMac has plenty of instructions on how to install old software into your emulator, but it turns out to be a tremendously annoying process because newer computers strip off the file type information that older Macs need to operate. Now go get a 20MB hard drive "blank" from here (Opens in a new window) if you want to install more software. Mount one of those disks in MinivMac and you'll be in business. You can get old versions of the Mac system software from Apple's official site (Opens in a new window), where you can download System 6.0.3, 6.0.5, 6.0.8, 7.0, or 7.5.3. The ROM (titled "vMac.ROM") is the annoying part, because it's technically illegal to download, although you aren't hurting anyone by downloading a ROM file from a 25-year-old computer. It's easy enough to download and install, although it then needs a few things to work properly: a Mac Plus ROM, a copy of the Mac system software, a blank hard drive image, and whatever apps you want to run. The current state of the art in emulating early Macs is the freeware app, MinivMac (Opens in a new window) which runs on Macs, Windows machines, and Linux. But for a low-impact Mac experience, this simply can't be beat.Įmulating a Mac Plus with System 6 via MinivMac The only down sides, of course, are that you can't save files and can't add anything to his system. Friend's virtual Mac has a bunch of memorable, classic apps, including Microsoft Word and Excel, MacPaint, the Orion astronomy app, Stuffit, HyperCard, and Risk. Loading up this page threw me right back to ninth grade. Tomorrow is the 30th anniversary of the Mac, so it's a great time to revisit the Macs of the past. You can't run really old Mac software on a modern computer, but there are several ways to emulate older Macs on current Macs and PCs.īy far the easiest and most impressive way to check out an old-school Mac is James Friend's PCE.js (Opens in a new window), a Mac Plus with System 7 emulated in a browser window (click left).
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