Info-Mac

I've got a G3 iMac (which happens to be the first mac i used on a regular basis at work...and ended up buying for a mere $200 a few years ago) which runs Tiger like a champ. Though it only has 512 mb or ram and a 60 gb hard drive (parts salvaged from a pc that died after a year and a half of use), it is still a very useful machine, it dual boots, and the display is in great shape! The machine will be 9 years old come June, although it may be too antiquated come it's 10th birthday.

Viva l'iMac!

macuser77 wrote:Though it only has 512 mb or ram and a 60 gb hard drive (parts salvaged from a pc that died after a year and a half of use), it is still a very useful machine, it dual boots, and the display is in great shape! The machine will be 9 years old come June, although it may be too antiquated come it's 10th birthday.

Viva l'iMac!

Nice machine.

PS: 512mb ram SMALL? ...wow... my iMac G3 still only has 64mb of RAM and a 4GB hard drive...

I've got a G3 iMac that i got free a few months ago, I put in a bit of RAM from an old PC, and it is running Tiger quite well.

DEAD

i mean why bother when you can get a apg g4 they can be upgraded and run 10.5

the g3 are too limited

madmann wrote: i mean why bother when you can get a apg g4 they can be upgraded and run 10.5

The G3 iMacs are great if they do what you need, I just use mine mostly for internet radio, but if someone wants to just do basic stuff, and not anything with video they are still quite capable machines on Tiger.

an imac would be a perfect kitchen computer. look up recipes online, or to surf the net/read emails in the morning. I keep mine next to my entertainment center and use it to keep up with scores during football season, look up gamehints if i get stuck, listen to music, etc. etc. I can even set it up to screen share with back to my mac, though I can't control ither machines, I can still connect to it to run maintenance asks and weird out guests.

my imac dv 500 still doing good with os922. 256mb, 20GB hard disk. lots of applications and work smooth

I still have the iMac DV I purchased in 1999. My kids use it for older OS 9 programs, like KidPix and older games. Other than similar uses, these are not something you would want to use for anything modern.

I perish the thought of doing something modern like surfing the internet, listening to music or ichatting away on my G3... no, serriously

once final cut and creative suite OS X require a 2 ghz or intel processor, i'm not likely to retire any of my production machines anytime soon. I like having one on hand as a machine guests can surf or check their email on - without them being able to poke in on all my business.

Okay, I'll give you iChat and music listening. But surfing the internet is slooooooow. Even my kids don't like surfing on the old iMac.

Is it connected via ethernet or airport? It also depended on the sites you go to...especially ones that have kids games.

I'll compromise with you on that part.

By the way... I did get an AGP G4 sawtooth last week, I tried to install an OS on it but the CDRW drive would stop working till about halfway through the install. Needless to say I swapped out the hard drive and some ram from the iMac to make sure everything else was in working order... I LOVE IT!!! I have a superdrive on the way, and will upgrade the processor as soon as my budget allows!

Are you sure your G4 drive is crapping out and not a scratch or other corruption on the CD?

The drive is definitely at fault... It'll play a CD for about 15 minutes, then lock up., it acts like something is jamming the drive. I swapped the 10gb hard drive and put it in my iMac for the time being, OS X installed fine on it. I'm expecting a dual layer superdrive any day now for the G4 I know it'll be slow because of the G4's bus speed, but it is better than not having it at all. My next project may be my mini. I'll put it a bigger hard drive and a dual layer superdrive in it one day too!