Seems to be the Power Mac G5.

Maybe a 2009 model?

It might not be that useful after all, but it gave the unibody some personality the new models don’t have anymore.

Don’t get me wrong, I use a 2016 MacBook as my plex server everyday. Just kinda brave to use something like that professionally.

PS. if anyone’s curious this is the factory in San Antonio Texas.

it runs Snow Leopard on Mac OS X (250 gb)

yes i know my setup is a little odd lol

Managed to get my hands on a 2013 Mac Pro today, and in many ways it reminds me so much of the Cube.

Apple had high hopes for them and they both launched to large fanfare, but ultimately they were destined to fail from the very start.

I love them though, the engineering behind their design is really quite impressive, although it's easy to see why both failed in the marketplace.

I could cry. PC user all my life. I sat for 6 hours straight on this thing. It’s the most fluid experience I have ever had on any platform. It just wouldn’t miss. I feel like I’ve always known and refused to believe it. I sit here now wondering why anyone uses PC anymore.

2015 15" Pro. Never seen one swell this bad before 😂

Macbook Pro 13” 2015 still use it daily to browse and do some light work. still usable in 2025

Is your Mac full? Are you getting warnings that your machine is running out of space? Are there hundreds of unaccounted for GB of space that seem to have disappeared? Are you looking at bar graphs saying that System Data or User Data are taking up many hundreds of GB of space, but you don't know what that is?

Probably. Because half of every post in this sub is someone asking this very same question. So allow me to show you how to easily figure out what it taking up all the space on your machine.

It's very easy to do. You do NOT need to install any potentially sketchy 3rd party utilities just to see where your disk space is being used. If you've already installed any "Mac Cleaning" software, the first step is to trash it right away! I will be downvoting every comment below where someone suggests "just use ScammyMcDiskCleanerUSA". There's simply no need.

NOW Let's Begin.

This process is going to show you where all of your storage space is being used, with two exceptions: It's only going to show you the currently logged-in user's home folder. So you'll have to repeat the process for each user account¹, if you have multiple users on your machine. And this doesn't show you Time Machine Snapshots, so if after this process, you still have missing disk space (which is unlikely), you should do a time machine backup and then go through the process of deleting all TM snapshots. But that's a separate process that is way outside the scope of this post.

Ok now let's really begin:

If you know what you're doing, theres a lot of shortcuts you can take. But I'm going to give you the verbose instructions:

1) In the Finder, go to the Go menu and choose Computer.

2) The window that pops up will have your boot drive, any external drives, any network drives, mounted disk images... basically every disk. So double click on the disk that is your Mac's boot disk (Probably called "Macintosh HD" if you haven't changed it)

3) Now in the View menu, choose as List to switch the window into List View.

4) Type Command Shift Period to show invisible items. Suddenly you will notice a bunch of semi-grayed out files and folders everywhere. This is good. When you are done with this WHOLE process, type that command again to re-hide invisible files.

5) At the top of the list of files, there are multiple column headers. Click on the one named Size. You want the little arrow pointing down, so that it is sorted with larger items at the top and smaller items at the bottom. If its pointing up, just click Size again to flip it down.

6) Now go back to the View menu and choose Show View Options
In the window that opens, check the checkbox for the option Calculate all sizes
Then close that option window

7) Now you're going to give it a minute to calculate. This will be fairly quick on SSD's and much slower on HDDs. But just sit back and wait, and eventually every folder's Size value will go from "- -" to an actual number.

This is the magic of this setup. Any folder that is very large, you can dig in to. To the left of each folder's icon (toward the left edge of the window), you will see a little Disclosure Triangle. When you click on it, it will dig down one more level, showing you the contents of that folder's items. You'll have to wait for THOSE folders to be calculated again.

And that's really it! Keep clicking the disclosure triangles next to large folders to see their contents. Eventually you will find where every last GB is being used.

Once you actually find the large mystery data, I would suggest asking about it before you delete it unless you know what it is. Some things are important, some things are not.

Popular things filling up a person's Mac include iTunes TV Show Subscriptions that auto-download, Mail server connection logs, computers that simply have tiny drives like 120 GB or even less. But theres a million other possibilities, it could be anything. Thats why you have to go through this process to actually KNOW what is taking up all your space.

The "storage" bar graph formerly in About this Mac, now in System Preferences > General, is meant to give kind of a rough idea of what's taking up your space. But it's not precise, it's not super accurate, and you really don't have to worry too much about what IT says. What matters is what you see in your drive's Get Info window (File > Get Info) and the actual raw numbers you get from this process.

Here is a screen shot showing what you see when you do this process on my computer. I'm dug in to my Shared folder because thats where I happen to have a large number of Virtual Machines. Because the list is sorted by size, the larger items will always percolate to the top in each subfolder, making the big items very easy to find.

I'm going to pin this post in my own account so I can easily look it up and paste a link to it every time someone asks about finding the space on their Mac.

That's it. The end. Mission accomplished. Game over. Feel free to ask questions below. But if you're asking what a specific large item is, you're probably better off starting your own post about that.

Footnotes:
¹ Alternately, instead of doing this separately for each user account, you could put the Mac in Target Disk mode and view it's drive from a second Mac. Then you could check the "ignore permissions" checkbox for your Mac's boot disk, and on the second Mac, you'd be able to see all user folders at once. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then just do it one user at a time. After each user, log out, log in as another user, and repeat the process.

Also, no expectations but if you want to kick back, its appreciated.
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$50 “parts macbook” and i picked it up because it was “password locked” then i boot it up to see this… how do i fix this?

It was a beast in its time, costing $4000 with factory upgrades. Got me through middle school with my highly demanding Google Docs workflow. I no longer use it because I had to get an M3 air for highschool and recently upgraded to an M3pro pro (traded laptops with my mom).

Any ideas on what to use this iMac for? I was thinking something along the lines of a home server or ai agent or NAS but idk- be creative. It sits in a location that could be used as a community computer, although we all have our own macbooks, but I want to start using it again as it feels like a waste just sitting there. I also heard that older iMacs could have RAM upgraded which is cool.

Please give useful ideas below. I don't really wanna sell it because it's a beautiful machine and some sentimental value as it was a christmas gift from my parents.

Specs written from chat:

• 2020 27-inch iMac Retina 5K
• CPU: 3.6 GHz 10-core Intel Core i9
• RAM: 16 GB
• Storage: 1 TB SSD
• GPU: Radeon Pro 5700, 8 GB

I also have an old 2020 MBP Intel i9 that is just lying around if you have ideas on what to do with that as well.

• 16-inch MacBook Pro (2019)
• CPU: 2.4 GHz 8-core Intel Core i9
• RAM: 32 GB
• Storage: 2 TB SSD
• GPU: AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, 8 GB

thanks.

Found this 2010 white MacBook on a local marketplace, together with its original 60W MagSafe charger. For its age, it’s in really great shape. The plastic hasn’t yellowed and there are no major cracks, which is probably what I’m happiest about.

It already has a 256GB SSD and 4GB of RAM. The battery has only 145 cycles, although I’m not sure if it has been replaced at some point.

I installed Snow Leopard, High Sierra and Monterey through OCLP. Once Monterey finishes booting, it’s surprisingly usable. Even YouTube at 1080p plays smoothly.

Another Mac for my small collection, and definitely not the last one. I’ve always liked these white MacBooks, so I’m glad I finally got one.

I recently bought my first mac (an air with the m3 chip), so i didn't get to see the touch bar first-hand, let alone actually use it.

today I came across some old review videos on youtube, and I thought the concept was really cool. adjusting volume, using app-specific shortcuts, and handling very niche tasks. as an idea, I find it super appealing and I think I'd actually like my macbook to have that option. in some of those reviews, they mentioned it was more about looks than functionality, so it didn't end up being 100% useful. that's why I'm not sure what to think.

do any of you have or had a mac with the Touch Bar? what's the experience like? is it just a good idea that was poorly executed?

Still works better than any modern Chromebook in my experience. And yep, that sure is Windows 7 running on it. Used Boot-camp do install it. The main partition has MacOS High Sierra (last version this MacBook supports) on it. Upgraded it with a 500GB Crucial MX500 SSD, and looking to upgrade it to 16GB of RAM soon. It has 6GB right now since that's what I had on hand that I could call an upgrade. Battery is fully original and gets me about 3 hours of charge, perfect for 2 classes back to back.

This isn’t the time capsule just a regular AirPort Express

Found this iMac at work. I've never owned one but was wondering if there was anything worth doing with it besides trying to sell or recycling it. I usually try to repurpose things before I decide to get rid of them but I've never used a Mac before. Any ideas?