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Retro Collection
Machines I keep running, from a 1998 ThinkPad to the 2013 Mac Pro. Every spec below is what the machine reports about itself — HWiNFO on the PCs, System Profiler on the Macs — and the screenshots it came from are published on each page.
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Apple Mac Pro (Late 2013)
The black cylinder, built around a single thermal core.
- Xeon
- Desktop
- macOS 12.7.5 Monterey
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Apple Thunderbolt Display
A 27-inch panel that is also a dock, over one Thunderbolt cable.
- Display
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Apple iMac 20-inch (Early 2009)
Aluminium and glass, and the last of the Core 2 Duo iMacs.
- Core 2 Duo
- All-in-one
- OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan
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Apple Mac Pro 4,1
Twelve Westmere cores, an RX 570 and two NVMe drives.
- Xeon
- Desktop
- macOS 12.7.4 Monterey · Windows 10 Pro
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Apple LED Cinema Display 24-inch
One cable for video, power, USB and a webcam.
- Display
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Apple Mac Pro 1,1
Two Woodcrest Xeons in the cheese-grater aluminium tower.
- Xeon
- Desktop
- Mac OS X 10.7.5 Lion
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Apple MacBook Pro 17-inch
The first Core 2 Duo 17-inch, in machined aluminium.
- Core 2 Duo
- Laptop
- Mac OS X 10.7.5 Lion
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IBM ThinkPad T60
The first Core Duo ThinkPad, still wearing the IBM badge.
- Core Duo
- Laptop
- Windows 2000 Professional
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IBM ThinkPad T42 1.7 GHz
The second T42 — a 2373-CW9 on the 855PM chipset.
- Pentium M
- Laptop
- Windows 2000 Professional
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IBM ThinkPad T42 1.8 GHz
Pentium M 745, and a modern SSD behind a 2004 IDE interface.
- Pentium M
- Laptop
- Windows 2000 Professional
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Apple iMac G4 15-inch
The sunflower — a dome, a chrome arm and a screen that floats.
- PowerPC G4
- All-in-one
- Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger
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Compaq Evo N610c
The corporate Compaq, from the year HP bought the company.
- Pentium 4-M
- Laptop
- Windows 98 SE
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IBM ThinkPad T30 (Windows 98)
A Pentium 4-M pushed all the way back to Windows 98.
- Pentium 4-M
- Laptop
- Windows 98 SE
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IBM ThinkPad T30 (Windows Me)
The same T30, half the memory, an earlier BIOS and Windows Me.
- Pentium 4-M
- Laptop
- Windows Me
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Apple Power Mac G4 667 MHz
The graphite tower whose whole side drops open on a hinge.
- PowerPC G4
- Desktop
- Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger
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IBM ThinkPad i Series 1200
The budget ThinkPad, with the round touchpad nobody else made.
- Celeron
- Laptop
- Windows Me
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Apple iMac G3 350 Indigo
The translucent all-in-one that saved Apple, in Indigo.
- PowerPC G3
- All-in-one
- Mac OS 9.2.2
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Apple Power Mac G4 Cube
Eight inches of acrylic, convection-cooled, no fan.
- PowerPC G4
- Desktop
- Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger
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IBM ThinkPad T21
Pentium III at 800 MHz, and a keyboard worth the weight.
- Pentium III
- Laptop
- Windows 2000 Professional
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IBM ThinkPad 600E
The thin-and-light that set the ThinkPad template.
- Pentium II
- Laptop
- Windows 98 SE
Nothing matches that combination.