One in a million iMac?

[Pinto]

Although I know that the 15 iMac G4 is neither rare nor old, mine has a screen printing error from the factory.

The icons over the rear ports have all been moved around to the right by about 2". Hence the FireWire icon sits over the ethernet port etc.

Do you think this increases the resale value of the unit at all?

[melchior]

i don't think computers are like stamps....

if it was a pre-production model that would make it worth something but i would say a printing error is not something anyone cares about...

[applemacdude]

pic....

[scem0]

If anything, IMO, it would decrease the value.

[tazo]

i can just imagine a pc user trying to plug an ethernet cable into the firewire port; then saying to himself how he just knew apple's didn't take standard ethernet wires :D

[melchior]

Originally posted by tazo
i can just imagine a pc user trying to plug an ethernet cable into the firewire port; then saying to himself how he just knew apple's didn't take standard ethernet wires :D

i thought that was true? and you could only buy ethernet cable made by apple with a fancy little apple printed on the ends. right?

[rainman::|:|]

melchior, i'll assume you're kidding. Anyway, give it 25 years and you might have a golden baby on your hands... but you might not. Needless to say, if the iMac is still alive, it'll probably bring *someone* some money in a long time... question is, how long will you hold onto it?

pnw

[melchior]

in 25 years the flat panel imac will be worth money because it's an antique and most will have been destroyed. still think the misprint will lower the value. (who here plans to hold on their computers for 25 years?)

and yes, i was kidding.

[Mblazened]

if you still have the warranty on it, i bet you could get apple to fix it. Otherwise, i'd imagine it could ?possibly? lower the value.

[Pinto]

Nah, I reckon that anything non-functional that makes it more individual is good.

It won't be worth anything until the original flat-panel is very rare and worth something. Then it will be the rarest of a rare species. :-)

The value of a computer drops from new, but maybe sometime in the future its rarity and inflation will hit the critical point and the trend will reverse.

You never know, design icons of the "90s" may become very kitsch.

The good thing about the flat-panel is that long after it's functional value ceases, it is still valid as an ornament.

What do you reckon?

Anyway, here's the pic.

[Eniregnat]

Drink more and it will look just fine.

Pinto- from Animalhouse?

[bbarnhart]

Is it a printing error or is the bottom (or top) not seated correctly?

[jethroted]

Once I had these guys down at one of our stores call me up to fix his computer. He claimed that the mac he was setting up had no ethernet port. This was an 8600 by the way. I knew that it did, because I set it up many times before. So we talk for a while and I explain what it looks like, and what fits into it, etc. Finally after much time wasted, and him insisting over and over that it did not exist, I went down to the store to look. At first glace he was right. There was no open ethernet port, and I was puzzled for all of 1/2 a second till I took a look at the modem. The 8600 has an external modem port, not the traditional phone jack hook up we have now. So you plug your external modem into a jack that looks similar to the old keyboard and mouse jacks. then you plug the other end of the external modem into the wall. These guys decided that rather than plug the second line into the wall they would stick that end into the ethernet jack. I was like "This doesn't make sense on so many levels. How are supposed to get to an outside line when it comes out one port then back into another?" They were like "I don't know. We just plugged all the wires into all the holes that would fit them." So stupid.

Moral of the story? This defect computer you have would most likely cause a national disaster if given to talking monkeys, such as the ones listed in my story.

[bbarnhart]

Originally posted by jethroted
...external modem into a jack that looks similar to the old keyboard and mouse jacks. then you plug the other end of the external modem into the wall....

Those would be a serial ports. You could use either one (modem or printer) for the modem and then setup which was which in the chooser I believe.

[Pinto]

Originally posted by Eniregnat
Drink more and it will look just fine.

Pinto- from Animalhouse?

Yes, thought it sounded better than "Flounder".

Remember, don't get mad, get even.

[Pinto]

Originally posted by bbarnhart
Is it a printing error or is the bottom (or top) not seated correctly?

Printing error.

The Apple logo on the front the machine is centered, and of course if it wasn't seated in the correct position, the drive door wouldn't open.

[Eniregnat]

Even though plastics are not covered, I'd try to get it fixed by Apple, as some not computer litterate person could do damage to your Mac.

As for Pinto in Animal House (http://homevideo.universalstudios.com/animalhouse/index.html), well his charcter was based off of one of the writers, Chris Miller or Doug Kenney (http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/animalhouse/), who had a spotted- well it was a pinto. Just ask (http://www.bbring.com/animalhouse.html) John Landis (http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?John+Landis)