iMac G3 I got for 2 euros

iMacG3

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I bought a beautiful iMac G3 DV Indigo 333 mhz that works perfectly, except for the fact the CD drive is on the blink.
It had a bunch of photos and stuff and internet history etc but I cleared that all up.
It has ( i think) 256mb RAM and 2 video cards, one for the built in screen and the optional one for the external monitor.
It is a lovely example of fine Apple nostalgia.
What do you think?

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And for anyone wondering, the PC in the background is a HP Kayak.
 
Realising why it was so cheap. It wont turn off properly, when I click shut down it only turns off the screen. It has two "major hard disk problems" that it "cannot fix."
It's fan keeps turning off.
And it you slap it's side it turns on. I found that out when a airfix model fell from my shelf at night when my cat climbed up there, and it hit the side of the imac, turning it on.
At 3 o clock in the morning.
 
I remember I once had an IBM ThinkPad A31 laptop and it turned itself on in the night somehow. I remember being fast asleep and then suddenly hearing the XP startup sound and then jumping out of my skin and clambering out of my bed to turn the damn thing off. :P

Happy days. ;)

As for your system, I'm not a Mac guy myself but it seems like a nice machine for 2 euros you got a good deal even though it does have its flaws. :P
 
I think you overpaid by 12 euros. (Chances are it will cost you money to dispose of it)

Honestly they should have paid you to take this. Computers are thrown out every day that are 10x better than this.
 
WRXGuy1 said:
I think you overpaid by 12 euros. (Chances are it will cost you money to dispose of it)

Honestly they should have paid you to take this. Computers are thrown out every day that are 10x better than this.
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But I love it. I wont dispose it, i will keep it until there is some kind of history museam that will take it and put it in a glass case.
I'm not gonna dispose of it. It's a classic.
 
iMacG3 said:
But I love it. I wont dispose it, i will keep it until there is some kind of history museam that will take it and put it in a glass case.
I'm not gonna dispose of it. It's a classic.
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Not gonna happen bro :cool:
 
iMacG3 said:
But I love it. I wont dispose it, i will keep it until there is some kind of history museam that will take it and put it in a glass case.
I'm not gonna dispose of it. It's a classic.
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Never going to happen, there are many older computers that still have not achieved that status.
 
vistakid10 said:
I remember I once had an IBM ThinkPad A31 laptop and it turned itself on in the night somehow. I remember being fast asleep and then suddenly hearing the XP startup sound and then jumping out of my skin and clambering out of my bed to turn the damn thing off. :P

Happy days. ;)

As for your system, I'm not a Mac guy myself but it seems like a nice machine for 2 euros you got a good deal even though it does have its flaws. :P
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for its flaws looks like you have a good system there.

and those are epic laptops vistakid. assuming it is based on the same chassis as the A20m. I had one of them, and despite the weight, and the lack of speed, and the no wireless, and the 1 USB port, and the no DVD, and the lack of RAM, it was nearly unstoppable. Nearly. they don't like getting run over. lol.
 
I remember I had the some computer when I was little! I really liked that computer. I wouldn't throw it out either.
 
wolfeking said:
for its flaws looks like you have a good system there.

and those are epic laptops vistakid. assuming it is based on the same chassis as the A20m. I had one of them, and despite the weight, and the lack of speed, and the no wireless, and the 1 USB port, and the no DVD, and the lack of RAM, it was nearly unstoppable. Nearly. they don't like getting run over. lol.
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Yeah I did love my good old A31. :D Those things were built like tanks! Mine wasn't too sluggish (P4-M 1.8GHz, 1.5GB DDR RAM, 80GB 5400 RPM PATA HDD) considering it was 8 years old when I got it and had I kept it it would be 10 years old now.

I had an R40 too, that was a nice laptop was well, but not nearly as tough as the A31.

Sadly the motherboards in both my ThinkPads died, which is why I don't have them any more. :( Mind you, when I got those laptops they had both been 'written off' and had it not been for my Dad, they would have gone into the skip. The R40 worked for a couple of days until I accidentally yanked the power cord out whilst it was running (my mistake!) and the A31 lasted a couple of months until one day it would just not turn on. :(
 
vistakid10 said:
Yeah I did love my good old A31. :D Those things were built like tanks! Mine wasn't too sluggish (P4-M 1.8GHz, 1.5GB DDR RAM, 80GB 5400 RPM PATA HDD) considering it was 8 years old when I got it and had I kept it it would be 10 years old now.
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sounds like the same design then. Mine was a 600 MHz I think Pentium 3, maybe celeron, some kind of DX7 integrated, 256 MB of PC133 I think, and 20 GB PATA at 4200 RPM I think. It was a stout laptop, but seriously lacking in power. It would still be good to play with DOS or ME or something. I think I am going to get another soon to try that out. I think the A31 was a platform revision of the A20.
 
wolfeking said:
sounds like the same design then. Mine was a 600 MHz I think Pentium 3, maybe celeron, some kind of DX7 integrated, 256 MB of PC133 I think, and 20 GB PATA at 4200 RPM I think. It was a stout laptop, but seriously lacking in power. It would still be good to play with DOS or ME or something. I think I am going to get another soon to try that out. I think the A31 was a platform revision of the A20.
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Yes the A31 was a platform revision. Most of the A-series TPs were all related in some way.

I even managed to run Vista on my A31 for a while sort of smoothly, but I used XP on mine for the most of the time. I'd imagine XP on an A20 would be pretty slow though. Not enough RAM or CPU horsepower.

I do miss owning a laptop sometimes. It was handy to take over to my Nan and Grandad's even though I'd have to use it with the A/C adapter because the battery was on its last legs and would only run for about half an hour before it died. I'd maybe get three quarters of an hour out of it at absolute best.
 
I like having a laptop sometimes, but I always end up getting just the wrong thing for me. The only one I have really liked is the Latitude D630, but it needs a CPU upgrade. But that is cheap.

I think the A20m could run XP just fine. mine was weak, but it was capable of 1GB and 1GHz I think, may have been up to the 1.4 pentium 3s. Sorry, we are derailing here.
 
wolfeking said:
I like having a laptop sometimes, but I always end up getting just the wrong thing for me. The only one I have really liked is the Latitude D630, but it needs a CPU upgrade. But that is cheap.

I think the A20m could run XP just fine. mine was weak, but it was capable of 1GB and 1GHz I think, may have been up to the 1.4 pentium 3s. Sorry, we are derailing here.
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I almost got myself another ThinkPad last summer. I was looking along the lines of the X31 and X41 because they were small. I'm actually a member of the ThinkPad Forums (username is 'A31') and I remember last summer getting into a massive discussion about which TP would be best for me. Choosing a laptop is a lot harder than it seems! ;) I didn't get one in the end because I just spent the money on my SSD. :D

If you can upgrade the RAM to 1GB then XP would run OK. IBM said that the A31s (and a number of other models) could only support up to 1GB of RAM (2x512MB) but actually they could hold up to 2GB (2x1GB). It's only because when these older machines were built, 512MB SO-DIMMs were the biggest you could get. I had 1.5GB in mine (1x1GB+1x512MB), and it was enough. :)

Right, end of TP discussion. :D
 
vistakid10 said:
I almost got myself another ThinkPad last summer. I was looking along the lines of the X31 and X41 because they were small. I'm actually a member of the ThinkPad Forums (username is 'A31') and I remember last summer getting into a massive discussion about which TP would be best for me. Choosing a laptop is a lot harder than it seems! ;) I didn't get one in the end because I just spent the money on my SSD. :D

If you can upgrade the RAM to 1GB then XP would run OK. IBM said that the A31s (and a number of other models) could only support up to 1GB of RAM (2x512MB) but actually they could hold up to 2GB (2x1GB). It's only because when these older machines were built, 512MB SO-DIMMs were the biggest you could get. I had 1.5GB in mine (1x1GB+1x512MB), and it was enough. :)

Right, end of TP discussion. :D
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na, I am going to make a thread for it cause I really want some advice on it. Ill VM you with it in a minute.
 
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