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| Scored a Perfect iMac G4 800MHZ |
Posted by: MacManiac1701A on 2009-12-07 08:42:34
Last night from Craigslist, the LCD is bright and the arm is tight.
The guy told me that this was hardly used.
I got it for 130.00 with speakers, mouse and keyboard.
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Posted by: Mars478 on 2009-12-07 10:44:24
Nice score, one of Apple's more uniquer designs in it's production span. I will be getting myself one of those as soon as we get a teacher in my school a replacement desktop.
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Posted by: MacManiac1701A on 2009-12-07 10:55:07
Thanks... I've always loved this design, I've been search ebay but they are too much and the condition of some of them is horrible..
At least on CL I can haggle, ebay you cannot.
This isn't the fastest mac but I have a Mac Mini 2009, see my sig...
I just like the iMac...
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Posted by: Mars478 on 2009-12-07 11:48:43
I want me one 😎
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Posted by: nick3012 on 2009-12-07 16:07:55
Nice! That price was great for what you got. They are really neat looking machines, quite radical.
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Posted by: MacManiac1701A on 2009-12-07 17:28:13
Thanks...
I just installed a 500GB Pata Western digital with 16MB cache 7200RPM for 76.00 at best buy.. cheaper than the internet...
I noticed the difference right away!!! the old seagate was 5400 but slow... Even web pages come up faster...
I'm happy.... VERY Happy!!!!
this is a very capable computer..
BUT when I took it apart it was LOADED with dust, I don't know how it even cooled!!!!
Replaced the thermal past also on the piece that needs it...
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Posted by: IPNixon on 2009-12-07 17:49:16
Nice score; the iMac G4 is one of my favorite designs from Apple. My (well, my family's) iMac G4 is probably full of dust by now; the fan always runs really loud. At some point I'm probably gonna crack it open and clean it out, probably followed by a reinstall of OS X; the copy of Tiger on it now was upgraded from the original Panther install from 2004.
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Posted by: Temetka on 2009-12-08 02:02:05
I've worked on those machines and I really like them.
A nice machine with decent CPU and GPU as well as a great design.
Congrat's on your score.
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Posted by: ianj on 2009-12-08 10:49:04
As much as I can't stand iMacs and all-in-ones in general, I love the adjustable-arm display on those things. I had to rebuild one at work the other week and only reluctantly sent it back because I enjoyed playing with the monitor so much.
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Posted by: MacManiac1701A on 2009-12-08 11:45:32
I do like the all in one's, I really never liked the original imac... I had one but never really like the design... the imac g5 bla..... emac too bulky......
the imac g4... AHHHHH!!!!! nice...
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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-12-08 18:52:18
As much as I can't stand iMacs and all-in-ones in general, I love the adjustable-arm display on those things. I had to rebuild one at work the other week and only reluctantly sent it back because I enjoyed playing with the monitor so much.
You must tell me how you did such a task. My iMac's arm won't stay in the "normal" spot if you know what I mean.
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Posted by: MacManiac1701A on 2009-12-09 05:23:38
I found this link for your arm problem.. hope it helps...
http://macosx.com/tech-support/mac/loose-monitor-arm/334015.html
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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-12-09 08:50:11
$300 bucks? No thank you!
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Posted by: AusNick on 2010-01-02 06:02:19
These are very nice machines.
I got given one a few weeks ago. A mate was having a clean out and I got lucky.
My machine has issues though, the pro speakers won't work for some reason, I suspect I've lost a channel and the socket might be a bit dodgy, that's no problem, my existing speakers plugged into the headphone port. And the display has one stuck pixel, though I barely notice it.
Other than that, this beast craps all over my G4/400 performance-wise.
I've now migrated, but for some reason, I can't get OS 9 to install.
The machine needs upgrades though. It's only got 512 meg of RAM, which it suffers with since I'm running Tiger, and the original DVD drive, a Pioneer DVR-104 which is loud and slow. And the takeapart looks scary.
I have to say I do miss the upgrade options on my G4 tower, and the desk space I used to have.
What got my attention was the noise, or the lack thereof, it's a very quiet machine.
More RAM and a newer DVD drive, and maybe a bigger hard drive, and this thing will go quite well I think. I just have to get the courage up to do the takeapart.
I'll have to see how robust the PSU is. I don't want to open this thing up and successfully open this thing up and install goodies only to have the PSU die on me.
Nick
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Posted by: ~Coxy on 2010-01-03 19:35:29
The takeapart is really not too bad. You're right about the PSU in them though, they can be a little meagre.
Which model of iMac do you have?
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Posted by: AusNick on 2010-01-03 21:19:17
M6498
I suspect it may have been opened up before, an upgrade prior to delivery to the original owner? As it has 512 Megs of RAM, 256/256. Course I want to take it to the maximum 1 Gig.
Going bigger and better on the hard drive and DVD drive will be where I run into problems. I can live with it if I have to, just burns of anything will take forever.
I managed to get the thing to boot into OS 9 (copying the system folder from my G4 tower), and everything seems to work as it should, but I don't think the video hardware is being correctly supported, it defaults to the maximum resolution (1440x900) but only at 8-bit. This I can't live with, and support through Apple or anywhere seems to be lacking.
It really would have helped if I'd gotten the original install CDs.
Nick
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