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Mac Easter Eggs
Control Panel


By: David K. Every
& Daniel Fanton
(C) Copyright 1999 DKE - All Rights Reserved.

Power PC Control Panel

You must have a PowerPC Upgrade card installed for this to work

  1. Go to the Power Macintosh Card control panel and hold down Command-Option while opening the control panel.

A picture of the design team will appear.

  1. Then turn on balloon help and click where the people's mouths should be.

It will say funny things in the balloons.

For example, in the mouth of the guy wearing glasses and a blue shirt will say the following:

"Top 5 reasons Apple should move to Texas:
 
5) Don't have to be an Apple CEO to afford a house.
4) Most Texans don't live in Williamson County.
3) Texans don't place 'The' in front of highway names.
2) Blue Texas sky, hot Texas summers
1) Real Mexican food."

Bypass RAM Startup

An undocumented trick

  1. Hold down Option and open the control panel.

A check box appears that lets you choose to bypass the RAM test a startup. This improves boot time.


Created: 07/26/99
Updated: 11/09/02


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