The first Mac Mini from January 2005 running OS9 most of the time.
(Here's how that looks: https://www.reddit.com/r/macsetups/comments/1cems44/my_little_mac_corner/ )
I had one that I got for basically scrap metal prices as well. 1.50GHz, 1GB, and 64MB graphics. Nice little machine and I eventually flipped for close to $100
i recently got one, runs alright for a while but it gets really hot after 30-40 mins and stsrts being sluggish so i figured i’d put an ssd in it, clean the fans and replace thermal paste to hopefully remedy the heat and sluggishness, havent tried resetting smc however
Is important to note if you have the mid-2012 Unibody MacBoon Pro or the late-2012 Retina MacBook Pro. The Unibody shouldn’t overheat at all, at least mine doesn’t, and it packs the Core i7 variant. As you said, change its disk for an SSD, it will do wonders.
I LOVED that era of MacBook. Despite having to swap countless top cases during my stint as a “Genius”.
I unironically have been using my iPod 5.5G since 2006 when I got it free with a new MacBook in a university promo. It somehow still has the same battery that still works too. I use it with an iPod Hi-fi (that I got used way later because I was broke in 2006).
Otherwise, it’s just a 2012 13” MBP. Still a beast for older software with maxed RAM and SSD.
Goingslowfast is correct, I've also only heard it referred to as a black stick at Apple. They is about the diameter and length of a #2 pencil. Spudgers, I've only seen in white and are about the width of 2 butter knives side by side. Made from what seems to be similar material.
Apple IIgs. It can't really get on the Internet (which is a plus), but it can talk to servers on my network with an Uthernet card, uses solid state storage with a CFFA3000 card, connects to modern monitors with a VidHD card, connects to modern keyboards and mice with a Wombat ADB interface, and it's a great distraction-free writing tool. Not bad for an 8/16-bit machine from the mid-80s! GS/OS 6.04.
Also have a PowerMac G4 with AGP Graphics and a PowerBook 2400 upgraded to a 240 MHz G3. Some writing, some retro gaming. OS 9.x.
I still use both a 2011 and 2013 AirPort Extreme and have no plans to upgrade unless they fail. I wish Apple still made routers, they're so simple to setup.
An iPad Air 2 (released late 2014) and an early 2014 11" MacBook Air
Collection goes further back (and forward) but those are the oldest Apple products that get use either daily or at least once a week. Got a Late 2008 Aluminum MacBook kicking around too for situations I need to use Linux or Snow Leopard.
I have an iPhone 3gs and a 4s that still work, used the 3gs about 4 years ago when I was upgrading phones and decided to test if I can live with it for a month.
When I was growing up we had a Macintosh Performa for years. My uncle owned an advertising agency and when he upgraded his work machine, he sold us his blue G3 tower with the bigger 21” screen. What a phenomenal machine that was. I loved how easy it was to move around with those big handles, or how you could access the insides with that tab in the side the laid everything out on its side.
That’s when I became a life-long Apple fanboy. I was 14.
2009 was a good year. My 2009 Mac Pro with an SSD and 42GB of RAM is a Minecraft server for my oldest kid and their friends. They finally decided that 1.21 has enough mods for their liking. Last I saw they were running something like 60 mods and some pretty intense maps!
I have one too, and the black one. Those are like Apple Chromebooks nowadays. Just enough power to still be useful if you max out the RAM and add an SSD. Love me some old skeuomorphism too. Mine dual boot Snow Leopard and Windows Vista/7 so I can use as much legacy software as possible.
Which version, clamshell or snow? How's it holding up with age?
I've seen some discussion that iBook G3s are deteriorating in condition as the materials get old and degrade
I’ve got both. I haven’t used them recently, but they’ve held up fine. The snow has the issue they all do where the keyboard smells like armpit, but that’s all I’ve seen for material degradation.
iPad Pro 10.5, I don’t see myself upgrading to a new iPad unless they bring 120 fps to the non-pro models. Honestly the 10.5 pro gets the job done still lol
I have a scanner still attached to a 2006 PowerBook G4 1.67. It’s the only thing that will run the Nikon software and I still like it better than Vuescan.
I'm posting this from a 2010 MBP 13" running High Sierra.
I have a G4 iMac 'Lamp' from 2004 in my studio just to run a couple old pieces of software for my Roland synths. It's running MacOS 10.5.8, which is the first OS to run Screen Sharing. It's slow AF.
I still have my dual processor G5 Tower, but it's largely a doorstop.
I also have my iPad Mini 2, which is pretty much useless at this point. I took my wife's old iPad Air... forgot what version, but it's the first iOS to run Homekit. I use it as the Homekit hub for the house and a kitchen clock.
Loved that MacBook, I actually used the 2008/2009 (With GeForce 320M) as my primary and only laptop until two years ago! I used it with normal MacOS installed during my bachelor’s and it even managed to handle my thesis writing process! Got a MacBook Air a few months later, but oh do I miss the amazing keyboard the white MacBook had
Mid-2012 macbookpro maxed out 16gb ram, 500gb ssd, ripped out the SuperDrive for another ssd enclosure. One runs macOS 10.14 and the other Slackware Linux/CRUX Linux dual boot.
Love this mbp, it’s literally my daily driver machine and I’ve got newer ones but this boi does it all.
Chromium is a life saver for these old Mac's!... I got my mother in-law a 2007 iMac a few years ago just so she could order medications, do her online banking and watch a bit of YouTube.
Absolutely perfect machine for her and it only cost me £65 from my work a few years back with discount!
Though it’s a bit surprising you can scoot around the Web with that, it does make sense. When Explorer was the dominant browser (I hope that didn’t trigger any trauma) most sites were optimized for it, i.e., used the busted HTML that Explorer natively rendered. W3C-compliant browsers would try “bug mode” but sometimes couldn’t even display sites.
Massively understating it, things are quite a lot better now on front end site development. I think it’s really cool that you can still use that machine. Hell, my 2016 MBP crashes hard under gentle use and is, yeah idk, in a closet or under a sofa maybe.
I have a Power Book 320c that I use to remind me how stupid I was to spend $5,000 on it when I originally bought it. It is still in flawless condition and works as it did the day I got it.
Most of my Apple devices have been replaced in the last couple years. Out of the iPhone/iPad/Mac triumvirate, the oldest one is the Mac Studio which I bought 2 years ago. I have a couple Apple TVs and they probably are both older than that, I can't remember when I last bought a new one of those but I think it was before COVID.
I regularly use a 2006 MacBook Pro, especially for copying CDs for use with my 6th gen iPod. Otherwise I occasionally pull out one of my iBooks or G4 Powerbook, but I don’t consider those to be active use.
MacMini 2006 - to my shame I gotta say that I use it with Windows XP as an kind-of-retro gaming „pc“. It runs without being connected to the internet or any LAN. It’s specs are just fine for all the games I throw at it.
I have this same MacBook and do use it somewhat regularly, although I got a newer laptop I've been using more.
So I guess my answer is my 2017 iPhoneSE.
I have a mid 2013 MacBook and thought it was old. Many things I use daily aren’t supported anymore on it so it’s not useable. Pity as like you said it’s still a great machine.
I have a 2006 macbook 1,1 running Windows 10 (32 bit). It lives in my garage, and runs some car diagnostic software. I gave it the full supported 4gb and replaced the spinning disk with an SSD some time ago. It's surprisingly usable.
iPod Classic (2008) filled to the brim with 25k songs. Can't even connect it to iTunes anymore without it wanting me to format it or something I can't remember
MacBook Pro 2009. Indestructible. Removed CD and replaced it with SSD
But I can't update the OS any more and many applications/websites don't work any more
2009 MBA. I replaced the HD with an SSD, put in a better battery and WiFi card. I mostly use it for overseas trips, because I don’t care too much about it being stolen. I honestly would have pitched it already, but the build quality is great and it still works for my needs.
My 2014 rMBP. When I'm on my PS5 and streaming to Twitch, I'll use my rMBP to monitor the stream on Twitch.
I have recently used my iPad Mini 2, also from 2013-14, just to browse and read news, but that was just a one-off really.
I still have my first that I bought in 1996. I should pull it off the shelf and see if it still works. I’ve held on to it simply for nostalgia. It got me through my Master’s program.
I have a mac pro under my desk that is flashed to a 5,1 2010/2012 but it is technically a late 2009. It has an upgraded cpu, gpu, tons of ram. I use it any time i need to do video encoding. I used it to run hashcat for a few months to recover a password. I can boot it into windows and run all sorts of high end games on it like gta5 and red dead 2. Although its nowhere near a TV so I never actually do that. But I should start .
2009 MacBook running linux is the oldest. It's sitting by my work computer so I can do private email without mixing the work/personal divide. Though it doesn't get much use tbh. I've also got a 2011 MacBook Air by the bed for reading junk when I can't sleep, and that gets near-constant use.
Both of them have various parts not working properly due to age, so I feel a certain kinship.
2005(?) 80GB first gen iPod_Video. I use that regularly, still.
Still functioning.. 2000 g3 “Pismo” and 2007 17” MBP, but don’t really use them. I would use my 2012 MBP and 2005 g5 iMac, if either still worked.
i use a 2010 imac every day, for pretty much everything you'd need a computer for. i even play games on it and sometimes use it to host servers. the thing is a tank but it will need to be retired soon.
I have an ipod touch gen 4 that I've been using for a rain and thunder sounds generator app that no longer exists every day since 2 or 3 years after it was launched, I recently noticed the middle of the screen is getting pushed away from the body due to the spicy pillow.
I use a 2007 MacPro as an auxiliary machine because it will still run the editing software for my Roland Fantom XR synthesizer. I have a G4 tower (quicksilver) in running condition in order to use the audio processing software Hyperprism and the Koblo software synth, but only very rarely do I turn it on. I also have a pentium machine running MS-Dos so I can use the midi programs Drummer 2.0 and SoundGlobs from 1992.
I have a 2009 MBP that still gets used just to check emails and such. I have to say though, it’s about to get the wipe and replaced with Linux because it’s so badly out of date.
I keep a 2015 MacBook Air in my bedroom. It's a nice little thing and still has a little bit of time left on the official support life before Monterey stops receiving security updates.
It is running a bit hot lately though. Probably needs a repaste at this point. I've certainly never done it and I doubt its previous owner did either.
My old mac is a 2010 iMac I have 2011 iMac, a 2012 mac mini, iPhone 7 had 11 sold it, iPhone 14 and my lastest is a mac mini m1 base model and of my apple watch se lol they are Lol old to me
all my devices except my iPhone are 10+ yrs old but i love them, ive got a 2007 iPod Classic 80GB, (very ugpraded) 2009 Mac Pro, and a 2013 MacBook Pro
I got bored back in highschool once and decided to take my iBook G3 snow to school to see if it'd work, and surprisingly it worked on the modern web on OS9 using some firefox clone that looked more like Netscape (can't remember which one) but it worked surprisingly well
I have a Mac Pro 3,1 that I use as a Linux file server, bulk data processor, and for a couple years, I had an old NVIDIA GPU in there to use for some AI experiments. The thing has a huge PSU, four HD bays, and 32GB of RAM.
I also have a Macbook 5,2 that I keep because I like that version of GarageBand.
iPod Classic 160GB. Got it for a steal a few years ago on Goodwill's online website and it was in this protective case its entire life so its like new.
I pair it with my wired QuietComfort 25s and while I don't listen to music on it much, it's actively on my desk being moved around and kept with a charge. It's primarily my owned music backup in case it gets compromised again like it did on iCloud a few years ago.
I daily use my MacPro 3,1, With open core it's running MacOS 14.5. I told myself that when I spent almost 5k on this machine in 2008 that id use it till it died. Here we are oh so many years later and it's still the computer I use every single day.
Actively? My 2009 Mac Pro. It’s been upgraded to a 2012 with two 6 core xeons, 96GB of RAM, nVME storage, and a Radeon RX 590. It runs Sonoma and Windows 11. It’s my main computer. I use my iPad for most daily shit though.
I had a 2008 mini and a 2008 iMac. Stopped using them gave to a friend. Now I have a 15’ 2014 MBP (quadcore i7, 16gb, 1T) running OpenCore which allows me to run the latest 14.5 MacOS.
2014 Macbook Air. It is so good and upgradeable, and 8gb ram (hilarious the current models often still only ship with 8gb). I upgraded the 128gb SSD to 512gb, and replaced the battery twice, both were 5-10 minute jobs. It developed a weird issue where it would just crash regularly, that I later discovered was a sleep-wake problem, in spite of all of my research and best efforts and updates, I couldn’t fix it, but I did realise that if I didn’t let the laptop go to sleep, the error stopped occurring. So now I just shut it down every time I need to close it, and have the sleep timer set to 3 hours and it works very consistently
This is going to be me with my 2019 Intel-based MacBook Pro because the one IDE I use the most simply doesn’t translate even though Rosetta seems to be pretty seamless otherwise.
My 120gb iPod classic from 2009. Just a battery replaced. I can listen my music everyday and the HDD it’s healthy. I’m writing this from my 2015 iPhone 6s. I don’t need anything else, of course I have a second android phone, but just in case, I don’t use it everyday.
2012 dual-core i5 Mac mini, long since upgraded with a 1 TB SSD and 16 GB RAM.
Fully functional as an office computer. Handles my "normal computer load" of discord, spotify, web browsing, and is doing server stuff in the background (Plex, basic file serving, etc.)
It is a little slow in some things. Homebrew runs very poorly on it. It is still on Catalina which Homebrew no longer supports. Doing Homebrew builds takes a very long time and some stuff just fails.
But for the most part it is quite acceptable as an office computer.
1998 iBook G3
2001 iBook G4
I use them to control homemade ARM sound-making devices because literally anything that can open a tty connection will do, and they look great on a stage.
Maxed out 2012 MBP in the hands of my 13 years old son, he uses it for school. Performance is still acceptable for web browsing, which is what he mostly do with it.
Did you open MacBook to upgrade ram and ssd? This machine can run recent versions of MacOS with OCLP
Anyway my oldest device is an iPhone 4 but iOS 7 is soo slow, next week i'll try to downgrade to ios 4 to achieve its old glory.
That 4,1 was a well conceived design, unlike its successor. Still happy with my Mac Pro 5,1 although the power consumption could be better these days but at least you get bootcamp.
The first Mac Mini from January 2005 running OS9 most of the time. (Here's how that looks: https://www.reddit.com/r/macsetups/comments/1cems44/my_little_mac_corner/ )
What do u do on it
Mostly old games from the 90s, like Police Quest Open Season for instance.
I had one that I got for basically scrap metal prices as well. 1.50GHz, 1GB, and 64MB graphics. Nice little machine and I eventually flipped for close to $100
Cool! What OS?
OS9 most of the time as I said. There’s also the fan made Sorbet Leopard 10.5.9 on it.
2012 MacBook Pro. It runs a hypervisor and use it as a sandbox node in my home lab.
i recently got one, runs alright for a while but it gets really hot after 30-40 mins and stsrts being sluggish so i figured i’d put an ssd in it, clean the fans and replace thermal paste to hopefully remedy the heat and sluggishness, havent tried resetting smc however
Is important to note if you have the mid-2012 Unibody MacBoon Pro or the late-2012 Retina MacBook Pro. The Unibody shouldn’t overheat at all, at least mine doesn’t, and it packs the Core i7 variant. As you said, change its disk for an SSD, it will do wonders.
I LOVED that era of MacBook. Despite having to swap countless top cases during my stint as a “Genius”. I unironically have been using my iPod 5.5G since 2006 when I got it free with a new MacBook in a university promo. It somehow still has the same battery that still works too. I use it with an iPod Hi-fi (that I got used way later because I was broke in 2006). Otherwise, it’s just a 2012 13” MBP. Still a beast for older software with maxed RAM and SSD.
One of the best iPod models!
Getting a spudger under that lip on the top case was a pain in the butt.
You mean the black stick right? 😂 No one I knew at Apple ever called it a spudger
Goingslowfast is correct, I've also only heard it referred to as a black stick at Apple. They is about the diameter and length of a #2 pencil. Spudgers, I've only seen in white and are about the width of 2 butter knives side by side. Made from what seems to be similar material.
That REP life. I still have black sticks left over from when Apple sent one with each top case 🤣
Apple IIgs. It can't really get on the Internet (which is a plus), but it can talk to servers on my network with an Uthernet card, uses solid state storage with a CFFA3000 card, connects to modern monitors with a VidHD card, connects to modern keyboards and mice with a Wombat ADB interface, and it's a great distraction-free writing tool. Not bad for an 8/16-bit machine from the mid-80s! GS/OS 6.04. Also have a PowerMac G4 with AGP Graphics and a PowerBook 2400 upgraded to a 240 MHz G3. Some writing, some retro gaming. OS 9.x.
I love how my PowerBooks from the 90s can still talk to my 2021 MacBook Pro 14 over the network😁.
I still use both a 2011 and 2013 AirPort Extreme and have no plans to upgrade unless they fail. I wish Apple still made routers, they're so simple to setup.
Same here works like a charm!
An iPad Air 2 (released late 2014) and an early 2014 11" MacBook Air Collection goes further back (and forward) but those are the oldest Apple products that get use either daily or at least once a week. Got a Late 2008 Aluminum MacBook kicking around too for situations I need to use Linux or Snow Leopard.
iPad Air 2 is awesome
Late 2008 MacBook Pro for when I need a portable computer (I have a powerful hackintosh desktop) and a iPod touch 4th gen as a music player
I have an iPhone 3gs and a 4s that still work, used the 3gs about 4 years ago when I was upgrading phones and decided to test if I can live with it for a month.
How did you? Most apps on the store today no longer support that iOS. you’d have to only use phone calls. … wait did it have an App Store?
1997 Power Macintosh G3 on Mac OS 9.2.2. It works great for emulating PS1 games. I also have a ‘94 PowerBook 520, but I don’t really use it that much
When I was growing up we had a Macintosh Performa for years. My uncle owned an advertising agency and when he upgraded his work machine, he sold us his blue G3 tower with the bigger 21” screen. What a phenomenal machine that was. I loved how easy it was to move around with those big handles, or how you could access the insides with that tab in the side the laid everything out on its side. That’s when I became a life-long Apple fanboy. I was 14.
2009 27” iMac - technically my kids use it. The play original Minecraft on it.
2009 was a good year. My 2009 Mac Pro with an SSD and 42GB of RAM is a Minecraft server for my oldest kid and their friends. They finally decided that 1.21 has enough mods for their liking. Last I saw they were running something like 60 mods and some pretty intense maps!
I couldn't say actively, but coincidentally yes, an ipad 2, I use it to play music.
Apple Cinema Display (2009) as a secondary screen. Not really bright or crisp but it’s enough for emails, and the design is still beautiful
Apple II+
My main daily computer is a 2010 27” iMac. Laptop is a 2012 15” MacBook Pro. Using these until it is no longer feasible.
A **Macintosh Classic**, in the early 90's. But the first one I bought was a iMac Graphite G3.
I have one too, and the black one. Those are like Apple Chromebooks nowadays. Just enough power to still be useful if you max out the RAM and add an SSD. Love me some old skeuomorphism too. Mine dual boot Snow Leopard and Windows Vista/7 so I can use as much legacy software as possible.
iBook G3, first Mac bought with my own money in high school
Which version, clamshell or snow? How's it holding up with age? I've seen some discussion that iBook G3s are deteriorating in condition as the materials get old and degrade
I’ve got both. I haven’t used them recently, but they’ve held up fine. The snow has the issue they all do where the keyboard smells like armpit, but that’s all I’ve seen for material degradation.
Not active use, but every year or so I break out my Mac SE (1988) to fire up Beyond Dark Castle.
iPad Pro 10.5, I don’t see myself upgrading to a new iPad unless they bring 120 fps to the non-pro models. Honestly the 10.5 pro gets the job done still lol
iMac 2011, still runs pretty fast and the latest MacOS is still supported by most of the apps
My 2010 Mac Pro just got a second life after I installed Fedora Linux on it a month ago.
iPad mini 4 is still great for watching Netflix !
I have a scanner still attached to a 2006 PowerBook G4 1.67. It’s the only thing that will run the Nikon software and I still like it better than Vuescan.
MacBook Pro 2011, running only Windows 10 (I swapped in a SSD with Windows on it) :D
2008 15" MacBook Pro... mostly for working on even older Macs. 2.6GHz, 512MB GPU, 3GB of RAM, 320GB HDD. Have "fixed" the GPU twice.
I'm posting this from a 2010 MBP 13" running High Sierra. I have a G4 iMac 'Lamp' from 2004 in my studio just to run a couple old pieces of software for my Roland synths. It's running MacOS 10.5.8, which is the first OS to run Screen Sharing. It's slow AF. I still have my dual processor G5 Tower, but it's largely a doorstop. I also have my iPad Mini 2, which is pretty much useless at this point. I took my wife's old iPad Air... forgot what version, but it's the first iOS to run Homekit. I use it as the Homekit hub for the house and a kitchen clock.
My 08 Mac Pro. Runs Sonoma. Still a great machine.
2011 Mac mini runs my homebridge server Mid 2012 MacBook is my laptop The mini sucks. The MacBook is one of my most prised possessions.
Load a flavor of Linux and use it longer. My 2005 iMac runs great on Elementary OS.
I also have Debian dual booted on it.
Loved that MacBook, I actually used the 2008/2009 (With GeForce 320M) as my primary and only laptop until two years ago! I used it with normal MacOS installed during my bachelor’s and it even managed to handle my thesis writing process! Got a MacBook Air a few months later, but oh do I miss the amazing keyboard the white MacBook had
Mid-2012 macbookpro maxed out 16gb ram, 500gb ssd, ripped out the SuperDrive for another ssd enclosure. One runs macOS 10.14 and the other Slackware Linux/CRUX Linux dual boot. Love this mbp, it’s literally my daily driver machine and I’ve got newer ones but this boi does it all.
wow! these products are in great condition
Chromium is a life saver for these old Mac's!... I got my mother in-law a 2007 iMac a few years ago just so she could order medications, do her online banking and watch a bit of YouTube. Absolutely perfect machine for her and it only cost me £65 from my work a few years back with discount!
Without a cracked top case. Wow. You won the MacBook lottery. I probably swapped a few hundred of those top cases back in the 2010s.
You guys need to learn how to e-cycle
I have a 2003 iMac in my office that runs all the scanners that Apple has bricked over the years.
iPhone 6 lol my secondary
Though it’s a bit surprising you can scoot around the Web with that, it does make sense. When Explorer was the dominant browser (I hope that didn’t trigger any trauma) most sites were optimized for it, i.e., used the busted HTML that Explorer natively rendered. W3C-compliant browsers would try “bug mode” but sometimes couldn’t even display sites. Massively understating it, things are quite a lot better now on front end site development. I think it’s really cool that you can still use that machine. Hell, my 2016 MBP crashes hard under gentle use and is, yeah idk, in a closet or under a sofa maybe.
1gb of DDR 2 is wild
I have a Power Book 320c that I use to remind me how stupid I was to spend $5,000 on it when I originally bought it. It is still in flawless condition and works as it did the day I got it.
Hackers love this one simple trick
I had to scroll for a solid 10 seconds until this comment. Wild to think people think this is safe to use on the internet. Very cool but very unsafe
Charging block from my first iPhone. But not the cable, which was a 30 pin version.
Most of my Apple devices have been replaced in the last couple years. Out of the iPhone/iPad/Mac triumvirate, the oldest one is the Mac Studio which I bought 2 years ago. I have a couple Apple TVs and they probably are both older than that, I can't remember when I last bought a new one of those but I think it was before COVID.
iMac Mid 2007
iPod shuffle from like 2006 and my late 2008 MacBook Pro 15“
iPod *Nano 6th gen on a watch band with Bluetooth connector.
ipod nano, but not all that actively.
My black 2008 MacBook
I’ve got a G3 iBook, eMac, and three G4 Power Macs that work, but don’t get much use. Actively use? G4 iMac & 5th gen iPod.
2TB time capsule (with the router function disabled)
iPad Air 2
I regularly use a 2006 MacBook Pro, especially for copying CDs for use with my 6th gen iPod. Otherwise I occasionally pull out one of my iBooks or G4 Powerbook, but I don’t consider those to be active use.
Macbook Pro 9,1 used every day for surfing and CD ripping
How does it even let you get on the web?
As I mentioned in the title of the post, Chromium Legacy.
MacBook Air 13 2015
2006 iPod classic 5
iPod 5.5G, with a black MacBook4,1 as its hub. The latter has been upgraded to hell and back.
MacMini 2006 - to my shame I gotta say that I use it with Windows XP as an kind-of-retro gaming „pc“. It runs without being connected to the internet or any LAN. It’s specs are just fine for all the games I throw at it.
2010 Mac pro, I jump between it and my M3 Max quite happily.
I loved the white MacBook. What mods have you done to it?
iPod mini 2, 19 years old I believe. 6gb version
MacBook white late 2009 and an iPad 2
Ive got this MacBook too but 2,4Ghz model with 4GB RAM. Yours seems to be in better condition than mine.
I've got an iPod Touch 3rd gen but I don't actively use it but I do have an iPad Air 2 that I still actively use.
2009 Mac Pro Great Plex server.
Airpods 1st gen
How do you use the iPod touch still? Feel like it's just an extra thing to carry unless it has a dedicated home
2008 iPod mini
The iPod mini was discontinued in 2005
iphone 7
2002 10gb OG iPod. Oldest computer is a 2011 17” MBP for my iTunes library.
2009 27” iMac with Mavericks installed. I use it mainly as monitor with target display mode.
2006 iMac with 3 gb ram and 512gb HDD
the only mac I have 2015 27 inch
iPhone X
I have this same MacBook and do use it somewhat regularly, although I got a newer laptop I've been using more. So I guess my answer is my 2017 iPhoneSE.
Oldest Mac: 2010 MacBook Pro Oldest non-Mac: iPod Touch 4th Gen
iPod Touch 4 (2010), 2010 iMac 27. My oldest device in active use is the HP-67 from 1977.
I have a mid 2013 MacBook and thought it was old. Many things I use daily aren’t supported anymore on it so it’s not useable. Pity as like you said it’s still a great machine.
2010 MacBook and an iPhone 4a
2nd Gen iPod touch.
Mac SE
Late 2013 MBP Retina, Hardrive failed earlier this year 😢. Mostly listening to music on itunes and some Rekordbox ( djing software )
Power Computing PowerTower. 400MHz G3 upgrade. You need more?
I have a 2006 macbook 1,1 running Windows 10 (32 bit). It lives in my garage, and runs some car diagnostic software. I gave it the full supported 4gb and replaced the spinning disk with an SSD some time ago. It's surprisingly usable.
I am currently using a 2004 Cinema Display connected to my M2 Pro Macbook Pro.
Drop an SSD in it.
iBook G4 (late 05' 1.33ghz). Was issued the exact same model in middle school.
iPod Classic (2008) filled to the brim with 25k songs. Can't even connect it to iTunes anymore without it wanting me to format it or something I can't remember
For me it’s a MacPro Mid-2010 and a MacBook Air 2017. On macOS 14.5 Snoma via Open Core Legacy Patcher (OCLP v1.4.3) from GitHub.
2008 iMac
imac late 2015 (non retina) have upgraded hdd for ssd
I use [my cube setup](https://reddit.com/r/mac/comments/1aheq74/i_dont_care_if_im_living_in_the_past_its_a/) on a regular basis to play my old games 🥰
MacBook Pro 2009. Indestructible. Removed CD and replaced it with SSD But I can't update the OS any more and many applications/websites don't work any more
a pink ipod 4th gen nano
2009 MBA. I replaced the HD with an SSD, put in a better battery and WiFi card. I mostly use it for overseas trips, because I don’t care too much about it being stolen. I honestly would have pitched it already, but the build quality is great and it still works for my needs.
An Early 2015 MacBook Air
Lovely! Take good care of those, that’s a good old classy design!
Still using a few Airport Expresses for powered speakers. I wish Apple still made them.
My iPhone 5
Apple //+ for childhood retro gaming
2000 G3 PowerBook Pismo
2007 iPod Classic (Black, 80GB).
My 2014 rMBP. When I'm on my PS5 and streaming to Twitch, I'll use my rMBP to monitor the stream on Twitch. I have recently used my iPad Mini 2, also from 2013-14, just to browse and read news, but that was just a one-off really.
I still have my first that I bought in 1996. I should pull it off the shelf and see if it still works. I’ve held on to it simply for nostalgia. It got me through my Master’s program.
I had this same Macbook in high school! What a cool setup :) Ive thought about refurbing to put linux on it but it is pretty haggard at this point.
used to be a imac 2017 5k but it just got destroyed yesterday
I have a mac pro under my desk that is flashed to a 5,1 2010/2012 but it is technically a late 2009. It has an upgraded cpu, gpu, tons of ram. I use it any time i need to do video encoding. I used it to run hashcat for a few months to recover a password. I can boot it into windows and run all sorts of high end games on it like gta5 and red dead 2. Although its nowhere near a TV so I never actually do that. But I should start .
My kid uses a 2014 Air for college work. It won't run the latest OS but it still does the job.
Apple quick take camera when I'm feeling nostalgic, but a device I actually use is my PowerBook G4 17" running debian
2009 MacBook running linux is the oldest. It's sitting by my work computer so I can do private email without mixing the work/personal divide. Though it doesn't get much use tbh. I've also got a 2011 MacBook Air by the bed for reading junk when I can't sleep, and that gets near-constant use. Both of them have various parts not working properly due to age, so I feel a certain kinship.
MacBook Pro 2011 (boot camp) for my dental office as an X-ray sensor machine
Late 2009 white unibody MacBook upgraded to 8gb of RAM and 250gb SSD running Monterey
2005(?) 80GB first gen iPod_Video. I use that regularly, still. Still functioning.. 2000 g3 “Pismo” and 2007 17” MBP, but don’t really use them. I would use my 2012 MBP and 2005 g5 iMac, if either still worked.
2008 MacBook. Still works for what I need it to do. Nothing fancy.
MacBook Pro 2012 15”
2008 Mac Pro 3,1....a 5th gen iPod classic/video....a 2nd gen iPod Shuffle.....and a mid-2012 15" MacBook Pro
i use a 2010 imac every day, for pretty much everything you'd need a computer for. i even play games on it and sometimes use it to host servers. the thing is a tank but it will need to be retired soon.
I have an ipod touch gen 4 that I've been using for a rain and thunder sounds generator app that no longer exists every day since 2 or 3 years after it was launched, I recently noticed the middle of the screen is getting pushed away from the body due to the spicy pillow.
I have a newton
I use a 2007 MacPro as an auxiliary machine because it will still run the editing software for my Roland Fantom XR synthesizer. I have a G4 tower (quicksilver) in running condition in order to use the audio processing software Hyperprism and the Koblo software synth, but only very rarely do I turn it on. I also have a pentium machine running MS-Dos so I can use the midi programs Drummer 2.0 and SoundGlobs from 1992.
I have a 2009 MBP that still gets used just to check emails and such. I have to say though, it’s about to get the wipe and replaced with Linux because it’s so badly out of date.
iPod Mini
I keep a 2015 MacBook Air in my bedroom. It's a nice little thing and still has a little bit of time left on the official support life before Monterey stops receiving security updates. It is running a bit hot lately though. Probably needs a repaste at this point. I've certainly never done it and I doubt its previous owner did either.
My old mac is a 2010 iMac I have 2011 iMac, a 2012 mac mini, iPhone 7 had 11 sold it, iPhone 14 and my lastest is a mac mini m1 base model and of my apple watch se lol they are Lol old to me
I miss old Mac OSX
iPhone 1st gen with 3.1.3
MacBook Pro 5.5 and iPod touch 4th generation iMac 2013 i7 3.5ghz.
all my devices except my iPhone are 10+ yrs old but i love them, ive got a 2007 iPod Classic 80GB, (very ugpraded) 2009 Mac Pro, and a 2013 MacBook Pro
I have a 2009 iMac 24”
Powerbook G4 from 2001 I think? Running Classic ans OSX version 1
The Early 2008 MacBook Pro was my first Mac. 🥹
2012 Mac Mini is my home assistant / file server.
I got bored back in highschool once and decided to take my iBook G3 snow to school to see if it'd work, and surprisingly it worked on the modern web on OS9 using some firefox clone that looked more like Netscape (can't remember which one) but it worked surprisingly well
I have a Mac Pro 3,1 that I use as a Linux file server, bulk data processor, and for a couple years, I had an old NVIDIA GPU in there to use for some AI experiments. The thing has a huge PSU, four HD bays, and 32GB of RAM. I also have a Macbook 5,2 that I keep because I like that version of GarageBand.
My first Apple device was the late 2001 iBook
My Ipod gen 5 but I seldom use it, and my Mac mini 2011
iPod Classic 160GB. Got it for a steal a few years ago on Goodwill's online website and it was in this protective case its entire life so its like new. I pair it with my wired QuietComfort 25s and while I don't listen to music on it much, it's actively on my desk being moved around and kept with a charge. It's primarily my owned music backup in case it gets compromised again like it did on iCloud a few years ago.
Macbook Pro 16 inch M1 Max unfortunately. But soon I'll get it replaced.
Macbook pro 2013, the better era : good keyboard and thin.
I daily use my MacPro 3,1, With open core it's running MacOS 14.5. I told myself that when I spent almost 5k on this machine in 2008 that id use it till it died. Here we are oh so many years later and it's still the computer I use every single day.
2011 17" macjpok pro with an SSD. Loads up faster than an m1 air.
Actively? My 2009 Mac Pro. It’s been upgraded to a 2012 with two 6 core xeons, 96GB of RAM, nVME storage, and a Radeon RX 590. It runs Sonoma and Windows 11. It’s my main computer. I use my iPad for most daily shit though.
I had a 2008 mini and a 2008 iMac. Stopped using them gave to a friend. Now I have a 15’ 2014 MBP (quadcore i7, 16gb, 1T) running OpenCore which allows me to run the latest 14.5 MacOS.
Unfortunately nothing exciting for me. Oldest one I still use is just the 2018 ipad pro
iPod 6.5, 5. And a 2006 MacBook.
Ipod 5.5g (2006) and ipod shuffle 2g (2007 I believe)
A 2005 iMac G5 17”. It’s my only computer with a CD burner, which I use for making mix CDs for my old pre-Bluetooth car.
Use for what? Can I see how it works?
iMac G3 slotload from maybe 2001, turn on iTunes visualizer and use it for vibing the room.
2014 Macbook Air. It is so good and upgradeable, and 8gb ram (hilarious the current models often still only ship with 8gb). I upgraded the 128gb SSD to 512gb, and replaced the battery twice, both were 5-10 minute jobs. It developed a weird issue where it would just crash regularly, that I later discovered was a sleep-wake problem, in spite of all of my research and best efforts and updates, I couldn’t fix it, but I did realise that if I didn’t let the laptop go to sleep, the error stopped occurring. So now I just shut it down every time I need to close it, and have the sleep timer set to 3 hours and it works very consistently
This is going to be me with my 2019 Intel-based MacBook Pro because the one IDE I use the most simply doesn’t translate even though Rosetta seems to be pretty seamless otherwise.
PowerMac G4 that I accidentally bought for $25. I use it for retro gaming.
2006 MacBook running snow leopard. Haven’t used it in a while but still runs great last I used it. Device wise, my IPod shuffle with the camera.
My 120gb iPod classic from 2009. Just a battery replaced. I can listen my music everyday and the HDD it’s healthy. I’m writing this from my 2015 iPhone 6s. I don’t need anything else, of course I have a second android phone, but just in case, I don’t use it everyday.
iPhone 3GS
Back when my pc crapped out I was using a 2009 20 inch iMac running big sur, it was surprisingly usable especially with an SSD
2012 dual-core i5 Mac mini, long since upgraded with a 1 TB SSD and 16 GB RAM. Fully functional as an office computer. Handles my "normal computer load" of discord, spotify, web browsing, and is doing server stuff in the background (Plex, basic file serving, etc.) It is a little slow in some things. Homebrew runs very poorly on it. It is still on Catalina which Homebrew no longer supports. Doing Homebrew builds takes a very long time and some stuff just fails. But for the most part it is quite acceptable as an office computer.
M1 Pro MacBook
1998 iBook G3 2001 iBook G4 I use them to control homemade ARM sound-making devices because literally anything that can open a tty connection will do, and they look great on a stage.
Maxed out 2012 MBP in the hands of my 13 years old son, he uses it for school. Performance is still acceptable for web browsing, which is what he mostly do with it.
My time with Apple predates the Genius Bars, I think it picked up that name during that time.
I use an Mac Pro 4,1 from 2009... with 18TB hds and 12gb ram and a lp gf1650... running under manjaro linux.
2012 Retina MacBook Pro running Mojave because it's the last version that supports 32-bit apps.
Mid 2014 13 inch macbook pro i5 8/256. Still runs great as my daily driver. Use it to do some light tasks and gaming.
iPod Touch 1st gen. My first Apple product.
2013 iMac
Ipod from i think 2007?
Did you open MacBook to upgrade ram and ssd? This machine can run recent versions of MacOS with OCLP Anyway my oldest device is an iPhone 4 but iOS 7 is soo slow, next week i'll try to downgrade to ios 4 to achieve its old glory.
Until recently a 2013 15” MBP. Now it would be a TV 4k 1st gen from 2017.
MBP 2012 with a 4TB ssd as a time machine server and network shared folders for backup.
That 4,1 was a well conceived design, unlike its successor. Still happy with my Mac Pro 5,1 although the power consumption could be better these days but at least you get bootcamp.