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Blueberry 333mhz iMac G3
Posted by: Patrickool93 on 2007-08-05 21:15:59
http://tinyurl.com/2eew35

This is my 3rd iMac G3. I'm going to keep it on my desk, probably as my web server, just because...Local pickup too.

Posted by: funkytoad on 2007-08-05 21:40:43
Very Nice!

Posted by: Big Bird on 2007-08-05 21:53:48
iMacs on eBay have gotten ridiculously cheap, to the point that paying for shipping is often substantially more than the item itself.

That's a nice find, though, if it's local. Slap a version of OS X Server or *BSD on it and you've got a pretty nice web server. One of my hobbies is setting up servers on computers of all vintage. It's a strange hobby, so I understand. 🙂

Posted by: MacG4 on 2007-08-05 22:02:22
nice price. better slap some more ram in there too

Posted by: MacTCP on 2007-08-05 23:04:43
Whenever I see a trayloader, I think it's so good looking.

Posted by: Unknown_K on 2007-08-06 00:11:15
How many machines do you have no Patrick? Seems you must have 50 total by now.

Posted by: TheNeil on 2007-08-06 01:09:44
Very nice price 😀

Posted by: MacMan on 2007-08-06 02:58:58
Very nice price 😀
Definitely! The G3 iMacs have now fallen into that catagory of computer obsolescence where they can be bought for next to nothing. Give it about 5 or 10 years though and they will become collectables and novelty "retro" items (hence why I'm hanging onto my Indigo iMac G3).

Nice conquest!

Posted by: Patrickool93 on 2007-08-09 21:30:16
I picked this up today on the way to a road trip like vacation. Stopped at a garage sale along the way and, what did I find? The sealed manuals/apple stickers/setup guide, etc for a Slot loader. Dug deaper, and I found the disks. OS 10.1.2 and 9.2. With iMovie 2 which I had been looking for. Got to the Hotel, lugged up the iMac and iBook. I wiped the iMacs drive, and installed 10.1 using the CD's 🙂 A little slow on 96MB's but still cool. So I'm at a hotel, with an iMac in the desk 😛 I got a WiFi bridge from the front desk and I'm typing this on my iBook. After I got the iMac set up I realized the router is in my room, so I plugged in the iMac with a ethernet cable and surfer the net in OS X 10.1 🙂 Overall a good iMac, with a few fugly sticker on it. Can't wait to get home to upgrade the RAM 🙂 btw, I'm in Mansfield, Ohio right now...

Posted by: MultiFinder on 2007-08-10 04:07:46
Bump it up to 10.2 and you'll probably notice a speed increase.

Posted by: LCGuy on 2007-08-10 05:38:05
Definately...my iMac is a 333, like yours, and its a lot faster under 10.2 than 10.1 on any amount of RAM.

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